https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War#Casualties_and_disease https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War#Casualti... The war ranks with t

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War#Casualties_and_disease https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War#Casualti... The war ranks with the worst famines and plagues as the greatest medical catastrophe in modern European history.[78][79] Lacking good census information, historians have extrapolated the experience of well-studied regions.[80] John Theibault agrees with the conclusions in Günther Franz's Der Dreissigjährige Krieg und das Deutsche Volk (1940), that population losses were great but varied regionally (ranging as high as 50%) and says his estimates are the best available.[81] The war killed soldiers and civilians directly, caused famines, destroyed livelihoods, disrupted commerce, postponed marriages and childbirth, and forced large numbers of people to relocate. The overall reduction of population in the German states was typically 25% to 40%.[82] Some regions were affected much more than others.[83] For example, Württemberg lost three-quarters of its population during the war.[84] In the region of Brandenburg, the losses had amounted to half, while in some areas, an estimated two-thirds of the population died.[85] Overall, the male population of the German states was reduced by almost half.[86] All told that DA map seems to be grounded in the best research available. It’s also a great example of how a primary shock opens the way for massive secondary casualties due to diseases and social disruption. The war itself in terms of direct casualties was dwarfed by resultant famine and epidemic diseases as a result of the primary casualties and destruction. Here’s a simple thought experiment: What happens in densely populated cities when everything from sanitation to firefighting breaks down due to primary casualties? We’re not rural 17th century Germans, so a fire is going to spread catastrophically if the people who are meant to fight it are sick or afraid to leave their families. Just like the 30 Years War, but on a far greater scale, the secondary effects would dominate.