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A German soldier with a British family says both sides felt “the same” about going to war in 1914. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Cremer, a senior German staff officer with a British wife and children, read poems written by a German civilian for a WWI centenary service in the Belgian city of Mons. He said, "The first text is about the patriotism: everybody wants to go to war and everybody thinks we’re going to win this war in a couple of weeks and go home.” “In 1918 everybody saw actually, that there’s no real winner.” This clip is originally from Drive on Monday 4 August 2014.