The impact of war on French and German political cultures

I would like to discuss George Mosse's excellent and stimulating book, Fallen soldiers , mainly from a French point of view, and to comment upon some issues about the political and moral consequences of the First World War upon French and German societies. The core of the question is Mosse's assumption of a strong relationship between the war experience and the emergence of nazism in Germany. Hence, I shall examine first the reasons why, in Mosse's argument, Hitlerism appears as a consequence of the war. Then I ask why such an evolution did not happen in France, although the war experience was quite similar in the two countries.