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Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI

mainichi.jp Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI - The Mainichi

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) -- The small band of soldiers gather outside to share cigarettes and war stories, sometimes casually and sometimes with a degree of

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Anyone know why the article says on a scale unseen since the First World War? I would have assumed since the second world war given the scale of that conflict. Did WW1 have more amputees than ww2?
- Antibiotics are not available during WW1 so I imagine it led to more infected wounds that requires amputations.
  
  Oh yeah that'd do it

I do not understand how they could publish something like this...
- why not?
  
  https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-murder-of-people-with-disabilities cause it's a blatantly untrue statement that is also just comparing suffering of people for no actual reason and doesn't justify it's own take on why what it's said is actually true.
- Why?
  
  https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-murder-of-people-with-disabilities

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