If you want an inkling of the carnage happening right now on the steppes of Ukraine, you could do worse than watch the new German film of All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix.
It opens with a blood-curdling evocation of the industrial scale of modern warfare. We see countless corpses collected from the battlefield, like carcasses in a meat factory. Their uniforms are removed, washed and repaired by rows of seamstresses. Then they are sent home freshly laundered, to be issued to the next cohort of raw recruits — who have no idea that they are wearing the uniforms of the dead.
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