The first time I started actually learning about World War I and started realizing that the Germans were pretty much as innocent as anybody else in that conflic

The first time I started actually learning about World War I and started realizing that the Germans were pretty much as innocent as anybody else in that conflict (and probably more innocent than, say, the Russians or the Austro-Hungarians, or the Ottomans), I was like "wait, what?" Also, that the US didn't really do much from a combat perspective (though financing the whole thing for the Allied Powers certainly helped). Mind=blown.