If you want to blame anyone for the horrors of the war I would say Conrad van Hotzendorf

 I would say Austria as a whole, along with Russias poor leadership at the time, and i would say Germany gave Austria to much power (The whole "Blank Check" deal) However, Germany and Russia did not want war, it was a serious of catastrophic mistakes that led to WW1, in all the nations i just mentioned.

but the Germans did commit serious war crimes

The German Government, as a whole simply did not, the only War Crime the army actually committed was to an extent, what is claimed to have happened in Belgium (It did happen, but it was NOT anywhere near what the Brits claimed) and that was not the German Government, but rather a few misguided officers, much like the time the US massacred a village in Vietnam (I forget the name of the incident) it was not the US, but a few officers that let it happen.

Plus the British and French didn't attack civilian ships with U-boats.

 The Germans made it quite clear that any civilian ships in the area where in a war zone, and even gave the ships warnings to turn around, and the ships where by no means "Civilian" you stop being a "Civilian ship" when you smuggle arms and food into a country, knowingly, through a war zone, even Lusitania was carrieng weapons. and as a matter of fact the British did sink civilian ships, not with U-Boats but with warships, the Germans even made special Cargo U-Boats (The Deutschland class) to sneak past the British blockade. its funny you never hear about the brits blockading Germany and starving millions, but you always learn about the German blockade of england.

Also, I don't agree with the idea that we lose our civil rights when security forces tap the phones of suspected criminals/terrorists and monitor the computer usage of same kind, it's for our own protection and it makes no sense why proper liberals are against it

  If i where British i would agree fully with you, but in other countries we cant give the government so much power, for instance in the US, government spies have actually collected data on congressmen they dont like, and in a time where countries seem to be slowly loosing freedom of speech, im not so conferrable with the government listening in on what i say.

"in Dinant, the German army believed the inhabitants were as dangerous as the French soldiers themselves.[5][6] German troops, afraid of Belgian guerrilla fighters"
 
   I dont consider killing Guerilla fighters a war crime, if you fight like an army, then you should be treated like one, and again i agree bad stuff hapened there, but not any more than what the british and French soldiers did when they took Central Powers land

"1.2 million non fatal Casualties (this means the troops where not killed, but wounded) 91,000 Fatalities" lets see that means about 13% of people exposed to gas died, the rest wounded got to live, would you rather have a 150 mm shell fall through your roof with explosvies and kill you 99% of the time, or have a gas one fall through and kill you 13% of the time, assuming you dont just throw on a gas mask? and may i add that everyone used gas, you know what everyone did not do though right? starve millions of civilians to death and make african concentration camps, only the brits did that.

Second off, while yes the **** of Belgium was used in propaganda it also actually happened:

 Germany did in fact invade Belgium, i do not dispute that, and civilians did in fact die (Its impossible to prevent) but no, German soldiers did not run around "Killing babies" and "Raping women" they did not kill civilians in mass, and if soldiers where found killing civilians (Something that did not happen nearly as often as propoganda would have us belive) they where punished by the German command.


Also Christ people, its not hard to resise images so you can actually see them!

Now the allies weren't much better but the Germans were the first group to do mass research poisonous gasses that had already been banned. Also the **** of Belgium.

No, they had not been banned, that was not intill after WW1, during WW1 gas was actually pretty human, it hardly ever killed you, it just sent you home for a few years (Which is all the Germans wanted, you to not be a threat anymore) only like 20% of them even died, and while thats not good, its a hell of a lot better than artillery that kills anything in its path with deadly shrapnel, i will take my chance with the gas thank you very much!

Dont even get me started about the "**** of Belgium" it was complete propaganda, i want you to remember something, during WW1 Britain cut Germany's communication lines to the US, the only information America got was through British Wartime radio, and that was notoriously biased to the point where it is basically propoganda.

[Not even Girls Und Panzer? That is one really good show, and it just so happens to be an animie, the rest though? completely weird.]

Why Heil dir im Siegerkranz of course, the greatest anthem of the greatest nation to ever exist.

Uuuuuh... I don't wanna be a PBA replacement but I think that counts as God-Moding :/

Not really, i have enough warships in the area to flatten the islands, and they carry helicopters and marines, and way more than i need for that purpose.