History 3427E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paul Von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Million Dead
22 Apr 2016
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Emergence of new fields in response to scientific revolution. Eugenics: a way to fix the ill"s of society. Widespread belief that technology, advancements, and science automatically meant positive change. There are other places in europe that are anti-semitic and germany is in fact the best place to be as a jew in europe in the 19th and 20th century. All of the below happen in the same generation: humiliating defeat in ww1 this war was devastating to all nations involved, all made serious sacrifices. However, germany faces the legacy of that war in different ways than the other nations. General picture of ww1: war of attrition, advancements in wartime technologies (weaponry, artillery), destruction of urban and rural areas, devastating economical effects. Soldiers: germany (65 million) 1. 8 million dead, 7. 2 million casualties; France (45 million) 1. 4 million dead, 6. 2 million casualties (suffered the hardest); great britain (45 million) almost a million dead, 3. 2 million causalities loss of generation"s (20 year olds)
