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
The reason is that you not only need to remember the dead,

原因是你不但要记住死者
but you have to find a way and a form to answer an eternal question.

还要找到答案来回答那个永恒不变的问题
The question is: how is it possible to glorify

这个问题是该怎样去赞颂那些战死沙场的士兵
those who die in war without glorifying war itself?

同时又不会对战争本身有所宣扬呢
The extraordinary wave of commemorative activity,

纪念活动的浪潮十分不寻常
the cultural practices of commemoration

在欧洲纪念活动在二十世纪二十和三十年代
that were universal in Europe

已成为一种文化习俗
in the 1920s and 1930s

并广泛传播
have many different answers to it.

不与寻常的纪念浪潮会对之前的问题有所回答