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by sandworm101 3751 days ago
It is and it isn't. The explosive capacities of WWI were generally directed at the front, at the soldiers. While cities were involved, the civilian v. soldier death toll is not comparable to say, modern day Iraq. And nothing in WWI involved the literal desruction of large cities as was seen in WWII.

Now go back a couple hundred years, back to when cities were occasionally put to the sword, but that is beyond even this guy's memory.

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Didn't "the Rape of Belgium" depict German conquest and occupation during WWI?