I have always said that I do not know enough about WW1 to dispute or agree with any of the factual statements given. I have no idea what is accurate and, as always, give people the benefit of the doubt. Why do you suggest that anyone has lost support that was never there in the first place? What I am sure of, but only by the postings on here, is that you are a pompous ass. In real life you may well be a nice bloke but until you stop pontificating and attempting to score points I will continue to ridicule you.

So if the German people supported it, they were duped, deluded or motivated by jingoistic nationalism.

Here we have a very significant statement. The British public were clever enough not be duped by propaganda. The German public were not. Nice to know that we are the intelligent ones while those nasty krauts are stupid. No wonder they lost the war...