@shallow-blue said
And yet it's still being used, amusingly enough mostly by people from whodey's own side, as an argument how Germans are Always Chaotic Evil and how The Kaiser was a proto-Hitler and Germany in WWI was already the Nazis, really. So the more it gets admitted that in WWI (and in stark contrast to WWII) the Allies were the bad guys just as much as the Axis, the better.
And yet it's still being used, amusingly enough mostly by people from whodey's own side
Who is on whodey's "side"? Each person is unique, and has their own opinions.
So the more it gets admitted that in WWI (and in stark contrast to WWII) the Allies were the bad guys just as much as the Axis, the better.
A. Germany attacked Belgium, a neutral country, and subsequently committed war crimes, known as "the Rape of Belgium". Britain had guaranteed Belgian independence since the Treaty of London,1839. Germany attacked Belgium being perfectly aware of the repercussions (a British entry into the war) - Prussia had even signed the Treaty of London themselves.
B. Germany broke the Hague conventions by using chemical weapons (chlorine gas). If they had not, a chemical war would have been avoided.
C. Germany spitefully destroyed anything left in northern France when their army was finally being routed.
D. Germany and its allies were known as the Central Powers during WW1, not the Axis.