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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.

Very good film- plus it's in French !
I think that France is the country were WW1 is still the more vividly remembered - but because it was fought here for the most part, in the West.
For Germany it was more or less officially "forgotten", and was overshadowed by WW2, and now it's a long time ago.

[color="Blue"]Moved to the "WW1 history club"-forum, since this relates more to the "real" WW1 than the game itself [/color]

Thanks for the link

World War One is hardly at all remembered in Germany, for what it's worth. Mostly because the Third Reich towers immenselsy above anything else in German history. I doubt many Germans could tell you much about The Great War except the years and that we had a Kaiser. And that there were trenches. There has been an attempted revival on TV in past years (e.g. there was a rather outstanding Verdun documentary a year or two back based on participants' correspondence, mostly), but it's still as distant to most people as the crusades.

It's not much different in Vienna (which is where I live). The memory of Imperial glory and the Habsburgs is vivid here (what with all the buildings etc.), but it is very romanticized, and remembering World War One limits itself to a small, obscure memorial on the "birthday" of the republic in November 1918. But ask anyone about Caporetto, Strafexpedition or that Lviv/Lvov was once an Austrian fortress and you get blank stares.

I had to chuckle, though, that in Graz there's a Conrad von Hötzendorf Straße, though.