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Here are some interesting stats from the Great War:http://www.worldwar1.com/sfnum.htmI think that the number of German soldiers killed in WWI was around 15% or the number killed in WWII.
Makes you wonder what Germany would be today if it hadnt sent all it's sons to die in two bloody wars.
Looks like Germany more than held their own in both wars in terms of casualties. Thank God Germany wasn't a bigger nation with MORE sons to send into battle….they might have won round one.
The raw casualty numbers from World War I are quite impressive no matter how you look at it. The US suffered some 55,000 battle deaths in little more than three months of sustained combat on a very limited front. The machine gun in concert with artillery proved a very formidable killer in the siege warfare of the Western Front.
Great War Primary Document Archive: Photos of the Great Warhttp://www.gwpda.org/photos/greatwar.htm
This site has some very rare original color photos from WWI. I guess I am too conditioned to B&W because color does not seem real to me for the world wars.
This site has some very rare original color photos from WWI. I guess I am too conditioned to B&W because color does not seem real to me for the world wars.
I watched some original films and pictures of WWII in colours and, yes we are used to see them in B-W even if they were originally in true colours. The feeling that I had when watching those original documents was ...this is so close to ...now!I wonder if not showing primary colour sources isn't a kind of "bias" for the people ...
It might be. I kind of think we are just condintioned to think that you can only see B&W pictures from before around 1960 or so. I remember when I was a little (8 or 9) kid my dad showed me some color photos of him in Vietnam. I seriously asked when he started to see in color because all of his older pictures were in B&W. There is also an excellent site full of pictures from WWII in color.
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