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Photo by: Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi | The crumpled body of a dead German WWI soldier memorialized in stone a century ago and placed near the German front lines as a way of mourning. It’s impossible to really understand the human cost of WWI.

Every day on average over 6,000 soldiers died. WWI lasted 1,566 days. About 465,000 German soldiers were killed each year of the war. The generation of German
men from nineteen to twenty-two years of age was reduced by 35 percent. In France, the casualty rate (dead or wounded) was an astonishing 75 percent. About 2 million
French soldiers died, or roughly 25 percent of all the men in France, leaving behind 630,000 war widows. In Britain, 921,000 soldiers were dead, more than 2 million
wounded; one of every three British households had a man killed, injured, or taken prisoner. Russia lost 1.7 million men. Another 5 million Russians were wounded. The
United States, which suffered the fewest casualties among the great powers, lost more than 116,000 men, and twice that number were wounded.

Many civilians suffered and died during the war. The Allied blockade of Germany caused roughly 750,000 deaths from starvation and disease. Massacres of civilians
were carried out on a shocking scale, most notoriously by the Ottoman Turks against the Armenian minority: men, women, and children by the hundreds of thousands
were executed, their bodies dumped in mass graves. “Those who were not killed at once were driven through mountains and deserts without food, drink, or shelter,”
writes historian David Fromkin. “Turkish Armenia was destroyed, and about half its people perished.” It was the first true genocide of the twentieth century. [Quoted
from A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 by Joseph
Loconte]. To view more of my photographs of The Hidden World of WWI, please visit @hiddenwwi #wwi #history #photooftheday #instadaily #blackwhitephotography #instaart
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