Скачать или смотреть American Medics Couldn't Believe the Scale of Trench Foot and Shell Shock in France

November 1917. When American medical teams arrived at Base Hospital 15 in Chaumont, France, they expected to treat battlefield wounds. What they found instead shocked them to their core—thousands of soldiers suffering from trench foot, frostbite, and psychological trauma on a scale never seen before in military history.

Captain Harvey Cushing, a renowned Harvard neurosurgeon, and his team of nurses witnessed firsthand the devastating human cost of prolonged trench warfare. Soldiers with feet rotted black from standing in freezing water for weeks. Men trembling uncontrollably, their minds shattered by relentless artillery bombardment. This was the hidden face of World War I—where disease and madness claimed more casualties than bullets.

In this video, we explore the medical nightmare that awaited American forces in France, the catastrophic conditions of the Western Front, and how modern warfare created suffering on an industrial scale.

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