To be fair: A lot of things that are war crimes today were declared as such specifically because of WWI. Meaning that they weren’t war crimes when they were committed during the war. Specifically chemical agents (mustard gas and friends) had never been seen before, so there obviously was no treaty banning their use until after the fact.
WWI was so famous for everyone fighting a calm and reasonable war with no war crimes
Reasonable amounts of condiments in the air
They were serving so many hot dogs that they have to aerosolize the mustard.
They were so progressive about women having a safe space to congregate they introduced a miles-long no-mans-land in France.
To be fair: A lot of things that are war crimes today were declared as such specifically because of WWI. Meaning that they weren’t war crimes when they were committed during the war. Specifically chemical agents (mustard gas and friends) had never been seen before, so there obviously was no treaty banning their use until after the fact.