I have just finished reading an article in today's Sunday Times about a visit to the WWI Battlefields in France, and a thoughts struck me: there are beautiful, evocative cemetries- English and Colonial - in these places, but what happend to the bodies of all those young German soldiers who endured the same horrors and died just as bravely and just as wastefully as "our" boys did?
I doubt whether the German Government, crippled by savage punitive payments to the allies after the war, could have afforded to bring them all home, and one could hardly expect the French to raise memorials to their invaders, but do they all just lie where they fell in unmarked graves, where their descendants can never visit to remember them and honour the sacrifices they made? From a distance of 100 years that seems to me incredibly sad.
