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Malnourishment and illness claimed thousands of lives, mainly those of civilians and wounded soldiers who had returned to the home front. A notable marker of the harsh conditions in Germany was a spike in female mortality, which increased by 11.5% in 1916 and 30% in 1917 when compared to pre-war rates. [ 2 ]
Rats also scurried across the soldiers' faces and bodies when they slept, which was another cause for awakening. [5] On top of all of this, rats were known to eat the irretrievable dead bodies of soldiers left in no man's land, and the nibbling of rats eating bodies could be heard in the trenches during periods of silence between active warfare ...
German soldiers on the way to the front in 1914. A message on the freight car spells out "Trip to Paris"; early in the war, all sides expected the conflict to be a short one. In this contemporary drawing by Heinrich Zille, the German soldiers bound westwards to France and those bound eastwards to Russia smilingly salute each other.
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
A story about German corpse factories, where bodies of German soldiers were supposedly turned into glycerine for weapons, or food for hogs and poultry, was published in a Times article on April 17, 1917. [25] In the postwar years, investigations in Britain and France revealed that these stories were false. [21]
By July, the German superiority of numbers on the Western Front had sunk to 207 divisions to 203 Allied, a negligible lead which would be reversed as more American troops arrived. [31] German manpower was exhausted. The German High Command predicted they would need 200,000 men per month to make good the losses suffered.
A garrison ration is a type of military ration that, depending on its use and context, could refer to rations issued to personnel at a camp, installation, or other garrison; allowance allotted to personnel to purchase goods or rations sold in a garrison (or the rations purchased with allowance); a type of ration; or a combined system with distinctions and differences depending on situational ...
In 1792 barracks for soldiers were introduced and soldiers were given 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 d a day for bread. In 1795 allowances for bread and necessities were consolidated to 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 d per day and was later increased in the year by 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 d per day to reflect increased prices of bread and meat.