"You agree that most people believed they were fighting a just war. Yes? So, approximately 50% of the combatants were duped. Logic dictates that if one side were fighting a just war, then the other side were fighting an unjust one. How did the German government fool their soldiers into believing they were fighting a just war if they were not? Or were the British people more intelligent that the Germans? I really am curious." - Dave the Gnome.

That statement of yours above Gnome certainly shows that on this particular subject "that you know very little".

"One side fighting a just war the other fighting an unjust one"

Now I can see instantly why it would be considered just to come to the aid of a small country whose sovereignty has been guaranteed and whose existence as a free and independent nation is seen as being vital to my own country's national interest. Now explain to me how on earth it could in any way shape or form be viewed as right or justified to attack and invade that country and threaten total annexation just to fulfill your country's war aims.

By the way as explained in a previous post of mine the German Army as mobilised in 1914 was a citizen army that was already formed, their soldiers Gnome did not have to duped and lied to, all the German High Command had to do was to order them to attack, how the individual soldier in the German Army felt about it was of no consequence I do not believe that at any time he was consulted.