thinking about world war one
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also interesting that German forces in Papua and East Africa kept fighting after the armistice, holding out until later in November
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german workers r the true MVPs
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for the Allies yeah
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But the map doesn't show the home front starving- food blockades made the war effort and ordinary life in Germany almost impossible even by 1916
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Not an expert and just looked this up, but German Board of Public Health in December 1918 estimated that 763,000 civilians had died of starvation over course of the war
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But obviously the major factor was not the movement of the front (at least in the West), but the constant attrition there. Germany was fighting two global empires, plus the US. Of course we won that numbers game in the end.
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Not that anyone really actually "won" the Great War.
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I guess Japan came out of it with some easy pickings in the Far East, but they screwed that up pretty quickly.
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Biggest bottlers in Europe mate
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Looking at the size of the empire they'd just acquired in the East, it's understandable why they would take a last shot at Paris. Perhaps they could have sent a couple hundred thousand farmers home from the East to get some agriculture happening and just held the lines.
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Yeah, especially between Brest-Litovsk and the entrance of the US into the way. All the same, by the end all the Armies except the American and possibly British were on the verge of mutiny.
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