Death totals capture only part of the burden France carried. Large numbers of wounded survivors and people with psychological trauma also affected the population after the war. Alex connects these injuries with difficulties in the interwar decades and World War II. John Bull adds the economic loss of substantial productive territory under German occupation.
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French losses extended beyond the death toll
Wounds, psychological trauma, and occupied productive territory shaped France's wartime endurance and later difficulties.