In this excerpt, the author writes about a scene in a war hospital. Read the excerpt and then answer the questions: A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round.
And this is only one hospital, one single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands
in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought
when such things are possible. It must all be lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not
prevent this stream of blood being poured out these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital
alone shows what war is.
Part A
How does this excerpt relate to what you already know about the number of casualties of World War I?