I think learning and playing this game is a good way not to forget all the madness and cruelty of war especially of ww1.
I'm from germany and here only a few people still know the meaning of ww1 and nearly no one knows about 11.11 as armistice day.
2 years ago I visited Verdun for a weekend. It was very impressive.
History for me is important. We can learn from our former generations not to do the same mistakes again.
Today a german online-magazine published a short film from a french photographer (in french with german subtitles) about the verdun battlefields
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/zeitgeschichte/0,1518,589686,00.html
- worth looking.