This kind of material was intentionally kept out of the media of the day, during the war, so as to avoid public fear and political instability back home. On the right, above, a soldier checks the identity of a dead man, the latter likely dying alone in the undeserved ignominy of the wet, the mud and the cold of a shell hole. Dead German soldiers in the shell destroyed ruins of a bunker on the Somme, 1916. Below, some of the thousands of casualties from same battle on the Allied side are counted. A wounded man being carried along the trench to the first aid station.
Civilians are the innocent victims of all wars.
Below, women in German village are searching through the refuse heaps for scraps of anything edible.