"A piece of history, largely neglected, is what happened in Germany following the war.
Germany entered into a period of revolution which swept the entire country and ended up in the abdication of Wilhelm II and the establishment of the Wiemar Republic."

Certainly neglected by you Carroll - go away and do some reading - it will make for a bit of a switch to reality in your postings:
- The Kaiser abdicated the throne on the 9th November 1918 and fled Germany going into exile in the Netherlands on the 10th November 1918
- The War ended on 11th November 1918

Whatever you do Jim don't let facts get in the way of a good story.

"Soldiers did not fight just because they were afraid of their officers"

Now why would soldiers be afraid of their officers? To anyone who has ever served in any of the armed forces such an idea is laughable - Keith A knows that and so do I, but who on this forum is trotting out the fiction and attempting to tell us that soldiers were afraid of officers due to the incorrect fact that officers were allowed to and allegedly carried out summary executions of their own troops - definitely NOT Keith A or myself.