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Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was one of the few people who wrote against World War I from start to finish: not because he thought there was anything wrong in defending one’s flag, but because he saw how patriotism was hijacked by the mass media. Kraus recognized that after the war European culture would never be the same again. “When the future arrives, it will be walking on a prosthetic leg” was one of his grimmer quips. One of the striking things about August 1914 is that hardly anyone in the belligerent countries bothered to stand up and say that it might all be a terrible mistake. With the possible exception of Tsarist Russia, the countries that entered the war were not ideological states that controlled public opinion, they all had a more or less free press, and were all led by educated elites who took holidays in each other’s countries. When it came to fighting each other, however, defending one’s flag and country was simply a question of honour; it was not the kind of thing abou

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