Hace 110 años, Europa iniciaba la Primera Guerra Mundial. La euforia bélica y nacionalista sucedió al inicio del conflicto. Todavía no había víctimas ni se intuían los baños de sangre que arrasaron Europa y costaron millones de vidas durante los siguientes cuatro años. Franz Kafka, ese mismo día, escribió en su diario:
August 1 Germany declared war on Russia. Locked in by military planning predicated on a two-front war, Germany declared war on France on August 3 and crossed into Belgium to outflank the French Army, which was drawn up facing the Franco-German border. The violation of Belgian neutrality brought Great Britain in on France’s side, and Europe was at w
... See moreThe war’s cost was immense and horrific: some nine million soldiers lost their lives. Another twenty-one million were wounded. Civilian deaths numbered in the millions or even tens of millions if those who succumbed to infectious disease made worse by the war are counted.
