HIS242H1 Lecture : Lecture 4/12
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France lost 20% of men of military age and 66% of their male population was either dead or injured. britain lost 500,000 men under the age of 30: lots of officers died at war and elites; of deaths came from graduates of. germans lost 13% of men of military age but this number was great because of the size of their population. generally most deaths came from the peasant class, and were substantial on the. german, russian, austrian and the ottoman empire was on the verge of collapse. This changed the geography and political spectrum of europe. The brutalization of war turned some soldiers into pacifists. others who fought considered their experience as a form of superiority: small bands of these like-minded individuals paraded around europe killing and thieving. the greatest example of this is hitler. revolution of 1905-1907: close to toppling the romanov dynasty led by tsar nicholas i i.
