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Re:Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a ce... by ggm on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:08AM (#26464500)
You're projecting post WW1 politics on pre axis Germany.

France hated Germany because of the loss of Alsace Lorraine, and the wreckage of 1871.

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Re:Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a ce... by bildung on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:50AM (#26465450)
The animosities are even older. France has been depicted as "Erbfeind" (i.e. enemy for generations) in German school books since the Napoleonic wars.
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Re:Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a ce... by kergonath on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:06AM (#26466875)
And Waterloo, and...
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