Professor Jay Winter
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One of the paradoxes of the Great War is that the bloodiest, most murderous war in history produced a totally unexpected and unplanned improvement in the standard of living and in the life expectancy of the civilian population.
The question about the number of men who died in the First World War is one of the hardest ones to answer.
The reason is partly the
enormity of the war, the sheer size and scale of it, made accounting impossible at the time.
But if we try to estimate, we can assume of the 70 million men who put on a uniform in the First World War, 9 million were killed.
But that isn't enough because the war produced chaos in
in Central Europe and in Eastern Europe on a greater scale than in the West.
In the West, it was a war between armies, but in the East, it was war, civil war, and revolution together.
And it is probably the case that another five million civilians were killed in the Eastern Front, which was a 19th century war fought with 20th century weapons and 19th century or 18th century medicine.
In addition, shortages, hunger, miserable conditions, overwork, fear, anxiety over loved ones produced an increase in civilian deaths in Central and Western Europe.
So another million would go there.
And I would put the number of people who died as a result of the First World War directly at 15 million.
One of the paradoxes of the Great War is that the bloodiest, most murderous war in history produced a totally unexpected and unplanned improvement in
In the standard of living and in the life expectancy of the civilian population, part of the reason were rations, which meant that everybody had a chance to a decent basket of consumables.
And maternal and child health was defended because the biological characteristics of the population were strategically important.
There was an improvement in consumption.
the well-being of the population that happened independently of the fact that almost all of the general practitioners were away from the civilian population.
So fewer doctors meant better health.
Yes.
They make calculations about how much you should pay per month, how much the premium should be on the likelihood of your dying between
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