On a trip to Vienna in 2009, I was taken aback to find war memorials to various figures from the losing Axis side in World War I, tucked in various pockets of Vienna neighbourhoods. Some were to simply to honour the soldiers, but others appeared to be of generals in the losing side. It struck me, because it was the first time I had ever seen a monument to someone on "the other side" in World War I, arguably one of the most useless/needless wars that resulted in an astronomical loss of life.