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本帖最后由 Ein·Dalton 于 2025-2-27 15:09 编辑
三十年战争以现在的视角看确实是一场人道灾难,单纯对比欧洲地区的死亡人口/战前人口比例(20%),比一战(5.5%)二战(6.0%)更离谱
但你要结合时代背景,从历史记录上看,白马骑士远比红马骑士恐怖,疫病远比火枪、刀剑和大炮更有破坏力,每战死一个士兵,就有三个士兵因为瘟疫死去。
Disease proved more potent than muskets, swords and cannon.
On average, one in ten soldiers was sick, even if most generally
recovered. Logistical failure or epidemics increased this proportion
signicantly. A form of typhus known as ‘Hungarian fever’ (morbus
Hungaricus) killed 14,000 Liga soldiers during the 1620 campaign,
compared to only 200 shot or hacked to death at White Mountain.22
However, Liga losses at White Mountain were exceptionally light
and armies that were routed, like their Bohemian opponents,
suered far greater casualties, especially if they were pursued. It is
likely that three men died of disease for every one killed in action,
suggesting that up to 1.8 million soldiers died during the war.
The Saxon town of Naumburg had 8,900 inhabitants in 1618, falling to 4,320 by 1645, yet only 18 citizens were listed as killed by soldiers, despite the place being sacked by the Swedes who plundered it for a week in 1635.
Only 5 of the 699 deaths recorded in the Westphalian parish of Elspe were directly related to military violence, and though 241 people died in the Hohenlohe town of Ingelngen during 1634, just 7 of these fell during its capture after the battle of Nördlingen, compared to the 163 who died of plague that year. ——PETER H. WILSON Europe’s Tragedy A History of the Thirty Years War Ch. 22-The Human and Material Cost, THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT
当然,战争产生的人口流动和军队行军毫无疑问助长了疫病传播,但作战/劫掠本身造成的损失并没有那么多,比如白山战役战死几百人就散了,观之令人发笑。
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