How much did Germanys natural poplution reduce during the thirty years war?
My book says that the Thirty Years War was more destructive than WW II, but that’s all I can say about it. Stats from the seventeenth century are going to be iffy, and even WW II stats are subject to question. (Just recently I’ve been reading about new evidence that the Holocaust killed a lot more Jews than has previously been recorded.) I can’t research this now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if disease, such as bubonic plague, factored into the Thirty YW, just as influenza killed more peop in WW I than battlefield injuries.
