Dave, you said, "I am sure that the German public did agree the need to invade."

How can you be sure?
I have no idea if they did or not.
IF they did, was it just the nationalistic fervour that they demonstrated again a few years later and which Remarque wrote about?

Were they lied to?
You tell us, because I do not know Dave.

I do know that the British public were not deluded, brainwashed and naïvely duped into supporting the conflict.

Margaret Macmillan said, "Britain certainly thought it had legitimate reasons for going in, and I think it did,"


Pennell, "myths have built up that suggest ordinary British and Irish people backed the war because they were deluded, brainwashed and naïvely duped into supporting the conflict. My research shows that this was simply not the case."

The University of East Anglia (Paxman programmes) say the same as does Sheffield, Todman and every other historian who has expressed an opinion.