By and large, the aftermath of World War I was not what people had anticipated. The enormity of the misfortunes totaled to millions of dead soldiers. Germany had the most losses totaling to 1,600,000. In proportion to its population France had a greater lose than did Germany. “We might find it useful to remind ourselves that behind each death or casualty were families, friends, and communities left to mourn or to cope with the shattered lives that injured men had to rebuild”. Writing’s such as Lay Down Your Arms, The War In the Air, July 1914, Resolutions Adopted by the International Congress of Women at The Hague, and Diary Entries from a Civilian in Occupied France give us a sense of feeling of what it was like to live through WWI and
