Why was the First World War especially hard on civilians?
One of the examples of civilians being treated hard is disease. They were kept locked in houses with no cleaned drains which caused gangrene and other disease, they didn't have fans which were used to push the germs out through the window. Many people were dying because of poor health care and no medical treatment. In order to keep the civilians alive they would have to move them to another house that was clean, had a good environment and a good medical treatment.
Another example of poor civilians is hardwork, they made them work very hard, even little kids. In 1914 they decided that children have to work also, they were sent to different places like factories, yards and the mills. They weren't even paid for their jobs, thousands of kids which worked in a sewing machines, died because when the machine got stuck cause of the tread. The kid had to go under the machine and untangle it, it was a huge risk because once you fix it, it starts working and you will get killed. Parents had different jobs there were times that were locked in another place without seeing their kid for years. They even splited (sic) mothers from their babies. Because of this people were loosing (sic) their lives so they could satisfy someone.
The civilians were treated really harsh no matter if it meant it was a woman, man or child. They thought that being a man was a successful way of what they intended to do, but it wasn't because they killed innocent people. One of the ways of killing civilians by Germans was by putting them in a room naked and spreading poison gas, which killed them slowly. Another way is either to make them die of hunger and thirst or either hang them or shoot one by one. In the battle of Versailles over 30,000 civilians were killed during the war. In 1916 it was more or less not a crime to kill civilians.
I am going to conclude this insane and harsh topic by saying it is wrong killing civilians. The question is, How are civilians (sic) from anybody else? they are not, just cause they don't wear suits and carry a gun it doesn't give any reason to kill them because they are still humans with civil rights. They should all be treated equal. If I was the leader for example Germany, I wouldn't ever kill a human that was innocent unless I really had to. Woodrow Wilson said that they had to revenge Germany in a very harsh way. Maybe that's the only way to resolve this fight.
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