In Nazi concentration camps across Eastern Europe, those years saw the worst genocide ever on record. With combined civilian and military death toll estimates ranging as high as 85 million, World War 2 remains the single deadliest cataclysm in human history.īetween 19, the world endured not only its bloodiest and most far-reaching military campaigns, but also some of its deadliest famines, civilian exterminations, and epidemics.
This time, however, the casualties were more than four times worse. Yet even this was not in fact "the war to end all wars." Just two decades later, most of the same countries waged war on much of the same ground. Between 19, approximately 17 million soldiers and civilians died while another 20 million lay seriously wounded. The West had never seen anything like World War 1 before. One can hardly blame them for such a grandiose name. Both during and soon after World War 1, politicians and pundits began referring to the devastating conflict as "the war to end all wars."
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