These are the top six themes from our poll.
There was a huge drop off in votes after number six.
There was a pleasant understanding of the role of money and corporations in the readers' selections.
"It is crudely general to suggest collective responsibility for the German populace. It is, however, fair to suggest that those who continued to defend the idea of Germanhood publicly as the war went on—when this had become synonymous with barbarity—were in fact renouncing their humanity for the sake of individual survival and peace of mind."
Panayiotis Demopoulos, Götterdämmerung: Suicide Music