HIST 387 Lecture 20: Lecture 20 - Victims, Veterans and War Trauma
22 Nov 2018
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Lecture 20 - victims, veterans and war trauma. The armistice and peace treaties did not mark an end to the process. Impact of death itself (war dead - memorialization and commemoration) For millions of people across the world, the war did not end. In some parts of the world, it continued for several years. If you lived in a foreign belligerent country, you had the potential to be killed because war was still all around you. The end of the war coincided with the worst pandemics in modern history. Almost 1/3 of shells failed to explode (1 billion) This began with famine which was sporadically took place across europe (ex: There was a possibility that a shell could explode and kill everyone in the area. There was a harvest of unexploded shells, bullets, shrapnel and other objects collected by the belgian and french farmers after plowing their fields. The influenza pandemic - spanish flu, 1918-1919.
