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Our minds are at this time full of the memories of friends and comrades lost by bombs at home and bullet on the battlefield in those years from 1939 to 1946, but that is only part of the story.

People speak of the First Great War from 1914 to 1919, a time of unique slaughter (although are there any left who are so old as to remember it?) and then of the 鈥淟ast War鈥� as if they were two different conflicts. They are not!

There was in fact only one Great World War when the whole globe was wrapped in flame. It began in 1914 and it ended in 1946. In between was a pause so that the mountain of armaments could be rebuilt and a new young generation reared for the resumed killing fields.

And this was partly the fault of the victorious Allies in 1919, Britain, America and France. They enforced a peace treaty so savage that the defeated Germany was bound to revolt.

The west part of Germany, the Rheinland, was taken from their control and Czechoslovakia set up in what had been German southern territory so as to give self-rule to the native peoples there.

Taken from the book: Wrenbury Remembers
J.R.Pound

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