Professor Robert Weiner is one of our greatest teachers and an authority on both the First World War and the Holocaust. But like everyone else, during the apex of his career, he was sucked into the vortex of conventional thought.

Yet, at one moment in the course of a lecture, he could not restrain himself: the truth burst out; burst forward: The First World War was "routinized genocide;" the "extermination of people on their own soldiers.

Read the quote directly below and click the link to witness this great moment. 

"All the capacity of industrial society—straining at the bit for destruction. One of the French soldiers called it extermination. I call it routinized, mechanized genocide: The genocide of people on their own citizens." Professor Weiner at 22:05 of the video.

First World War Casualties