This bonding between the living and the dead,

这是联系生者和死者的纽带
the bringing back of the dead to their own villages,

将死者带回他们的村庄
to their homes, was a substitute burial ceremony

将他们带回家这是象征性的葬礼
for the ones that could never take place.

因为他们中有的人可能永远也回不了家
How did it all happen?

这是怎么发生的
The first point that has to be made is that the commemorative wave

首先需要指出纪念的浪潮
took place through political leadership.

是由那些政治领袖直接开展的
Politics means many things.

政治意味着很多事情
The first thing it has to mean is that there is a fundamental difference

首先这意味着人们
between the way in which men are remembered in the winners and in the losers.

纪念胜者和败者的方式是截然不同的
In the case of Germany, where there were two million soldiers

就德国而言有二百万士兵
who died in the First World War, this is an enormously difficult problem.

死于一战这是个巨大的问题