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To: Ilaine who wrote (15840)	2/28/2002 4:05:33 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The day (in Kinopice castle) I discovered the cause of WWI. Yes, I learned at school that was the shooting of Ferdinand D'este In Sarajevo. But I only discover the real cause while visiting the hunting castle of Ferdinand D'este. They told me it was the first castle with electric light. Then they showed the first lift -he had tuberculosis and was frail. I looked to the castle and the modern amenities provided by electricity and I said: The Austro-Hungarian empire was an anachronism. Anachronisms that are not flushed down history's toilettes cause wars. Simple, they didn't want to give in peacefully, then it was just a matter of time for ANYTHING to start the war. Anachronism caused WWI. Look around, see that conflict in Afheganistan, India or Pakistan? That's anachronism causing conflicts.

To: Ilaine who wrote (15840)	2/28/2002 5:08:08 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

CB - ...I never have understood the reasons for the First World War. It never made any sense to me.... What was the political and economic structure of Germany prior to the WWI? Was there an inherent political or economic problem that could not be solved without expansion? Or was it just a long European tradition that any lightly defended border was to be interpreted as an open door with a welcome mat? Regards, Don PS - See Benjamin Anderson, Economics and the Public Welfare, A Financial and Economic History of the United States, 1914-1946, page 27, for a couple of theories.