The 2015/16 KU WWI Lecture Series, Everyday Lives on the Eastern Front, concluded yesterday evening with a lecture by West Virginia University Eberly Professor of Modern European History, Robert Blobaum.
In his talk, Professor Blobaum contextualized Warsaw’s First World War experience by comparing it to the more widely understood and researched experience of Warsaw’s citizens during the Second World War. In the analysis of statistical data found in food rationing, caloric intake, the weight measurements of youth, infant mortality rates, migration, and other like metrics, there is an argument to be made that the WWI experience had as much of an impact – and in some instances, a more severe impact – on the overall public health of Warsaw’s citizens than WWII.
