Year 1919: Spanish deadly flu and the worst year of WWI
1919 might be one of the only years when a naturally disastrous event like an epidemic merged with a human disaster such as the First World War. By 1919, the end of the war was on the horizon.
But, the millions who perished from the Spanish flu didn’t have immunity after they came back from the war, which made it the worst year of that entire period. Russia was also experiencing a civil conflict. The Treaty of Versailles split the entire European area into two rivals.
The map of the Middle East after the battle was re-drawn, and millions continued to pass away from the Spanish flu. Overall, the Influenza pandemic, combined with World War I, killed between somewhere to 40 million people.
We say that qualifies it as one of the worst years in history. Do you agree?
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While 6 million Jews were killed in Hitler’s concentration camps, overall 11 million people were killed in them. My Italian father-in-law who headed the resistance in his hometown in Northern Italy managed to survive.