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The struggle for peace amid the 1918 war carnage
JOHN ELLISON reviews the events of April 1918
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CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
April 1918 began on Easter Monday, 12 days into the German offensive on the Western Front. Twelve days of mass slaughter on both sides.
Militarily, the British sector, having been pushed back above the join with the French army some 40 miles across a long sector, had stabilised.
The longer-term aims of the rulers of Germany and Britain remained hidden from most people.
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