HIST 387 Final: Topic 8 - Reading Notes
21 Dec 2018
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Some of the troops had to dig themselves holes because the dugout was too full to protect them from the fire. Junger sat down with two officers to wait for 5:30 when the artillery was prepared to start: there was a more cheerful morale because the rain stopped and the sky started clearing. In the eyes of the allies the use of the armistice defined military victory: they exhausted the enemy"s resources and ground down the armies. In august 1918, the armies in the west were still on the wearing-out battle because they were still trying to engage in a breakthrough. If the war ended while still in the attritional phase, the definite victory that the scale of the conflict and the issues that surrounded it might have eluded them. Some french generals wanted to re-divide germany into separate states which would make the german people conscious of invasion and defeat as the french were defeated in 1870 and.
