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War Damage
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War Damage

Damages and costs incurred during the war through the destruction of military equipment and weaponry, but also as a consequence of property damage in the regions directly affected by the war. War damage thus refers to the material costs of the war in the narrow sense.

The calculation of war costs in the wider sense as well as of material losses in the narrow sense is so fraught with difficulties that all figures can only be seen as rough approximations. This already became evident during a first general assessment carried out for t…

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Thoss, Bruno, “War Damage”, in: Brill’s Digital Library of World War I. Consulted online on 29 November 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2352-3786_dlws1_beww1_en_0625>
First published online: 2015



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