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Murnau, an aspiring director who had survived the Battle of Verdun, which had seen 305,000 soldiers slaughtered.

After it was all over, everyone tried to forget World War I. No one wanted to remember that the greatest minds of their generation had designed a war that ultimately slaughtered over 16 million people.

It assumed its first form thanks to a German soldier named Albin Grau, who had served in the Serbian campaign of WWI, a yearlong invasion in which so many German soldiers were slaughtered that reinforcements arrived at a rate of 200,000 a month.

All in, between 1914 and 1923, at least 6 percent of the global population died of disease, starved to death, were killed on battlefields, or were slaughtered in their homes by foreign soldiers.

It was a fascist spectacle — and included a speaker who said the "enemies" of the Trump movement need to be “slaughtered.”