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this great enthusiasm, at least in the big cities,
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at the Bonhoeffer in Berlin, or at the Gare de l'est in Paris,
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for this war.
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Now, whether people in other parts of France and Germany
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and other places were enthusiastic about the war,
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it's a very moot question that's been hotly debated,
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and in many places obviously they had better things to do.
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They had to get the harvest in,
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which would be one problem on the home front and every place,
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because the war starts in the summer.
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But the expectation of war and the culture of war
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closely tied to the culture of nationalism,