> In 1912, people were quite innocent, so this was seen as a big event. > Was WW1, at least in part, something that was allowed to happen before most people ha

> In 1912, people were quite innocent, so this was seen as a big event. > Was WW1, at least in part, something that was allowed to happen before most people had forgotten earlier big wars? Roughly 100 years had passed since Napoleon, after all. There's a little mentioned XIX century war that exacted WW2-scale casualties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion