"Silvio Franke" <silvio.franke@unibw-muenchen.de> wrote in message

> The Prussian officers were not that different from other officers.

Well, they made a lasting impression in Metz.

> The main differences were their effectiveness and the level how the
> Prussian society was influenced by them.

And the rest of German society too, and their idiot neighbours too...

> 1870 and 1914 the Soldiers
> and societies of all involved countries were enthusiastic about
> the wars, there was no difference...

The French enthusiastic in 1870 ?! You have a lot of imagination.
There was only one guy enthousiastic about 70. I've met him. I was taken to
Gravelotte in the middle of nowhere. They have 2 rooms full of rusty old
stuff in a farm, they call that a war museum. I was supposed to watch it  2
minutes before going to drink a chocolate while the men would visit it
seriously. But at the entrance, a Poilu (veteran of 14, he was at least 95)
took me in hostage and explained me in detail each gun, then he'd seize it
and started jumping around, yelling and killing imaginary enemies. That was
really funny because he was talking at the first person as if he had really
participated. At the end, he decided to teach me how to use a baionnette on
a dummy, I had to do like him. That lasted 2 hours, then we were lucky the
angelus rang and he had to go home to take his lunch and his medecine for
blood pressure. I'll never know the end. Did we win the battle of Gravelotte
?

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