"The First World War as auto-genocide"  (Professor Robert Weiner)

Historians collude to pretend they do not know the truth, working together to conceal the “totem secret” (Carolyn Marvin): That nations exist and survive by killing (sacrificing) the lives of their own citizens.

Professor Robert Weiner, historian and author of The Great Course on The Long 19th Century—analyzes the bizarre and horrific self-destructiveness that characterized the First World War (“men running into machine gun fire with red hats”).

Like most historians, Weiner seeks to endow the war with a rational meaning. However, in a moment of disgust and sadness, he lets his guard down and speaks of the War as follows:

“All the capacity of industrial society—straining at the bit for destruction. One of the French soldiers called it extermination. I call it routinized, mechanized genocide: The genocide of people on their own citizens.”

Click this link that goes directly to the moment (in a video of Weiner's lecture) in which Weiner he reveals the truth of the First World War: (22:05 of the video).

  

THE GENOCIDE OF PEOPLE ON THEIR OWN CITIZENS: an auto-genocide. The First World War: the initial Holocaust that provided the model and template for the second one.

First World War Casualties

Country Men mobilized Killed Wounded POW’s + missing Total casualties casualties in % of men mobilized
Russia 12 mill 1.7 mill 4.9 mill 2.5 mill 9.15 mill 76.3
France 8.4 mill 1.3 mill 4.2 mill 537,000 6.1 mill 73.3
GB + Empire 8.9 mill 908,000 2 mill 191,000 3.1 mill 35.8
Italy 5.5 mill 650,000 947,000 600,000 2.1 mill 39
USA 4.3 mill 126,000 234,000 4,500 350,000 8
Japan 800,000 300 900 3 1210 0.2
Romania 750,000 335,000 120,000 80,000 535,000 71
Serbia 700,000 45,000 133,000 153,000 331,000 47
Belgium 267,000 13,800 45,000 34,500 93,000 35
Greece 230,000 5000 21,000 1000 27,000 12
Portugal 100,000 7222 13,700 12,000 33,000 33
Total Allies 42 mill 5 mill 13 mill 4 mill 22 mill 52%
             
Germany 11 mill 1.7 mill 4.2 mill 1.1 mill 7.1 mill 65
Austria 7.8 mill 1.2 mill 3.6 mill 2.2 mill 7 mill 90
Turkey 2.8 mill 325,000 400,000 250,000 975,000 34
Bulgaria 1.2 mill 87,000 152,000 27,000 266,000 22
Total Central Powers 22.8 mill 3.3 mill 8.3 mill 3.6 mill 15 mill 67
             
Grand Total 65 mill 8.5 mill 21 mill 7.7 mill 37 mill 57%