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we'll come to,
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or France, for that matter.
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But that's why the origins of World War I are so important.
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The other reason is that clearly
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World War I unleashes the demons of the twentieth century.
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The kind of racist stuff, the even somewhat genocidal stuff
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was out there in the public domain,
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but World War I turns it loose.
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We talk about,
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I hope convincingly,
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the Europe of extremes, which is the title of a wonderful book
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by Eric Hobsbawm,