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Do you have a source for the 'only minor losses for the Germanic tribes'? Afaik we know very little about the Germanic side at all. Most of what we know is in f
by t_mann 4y ago
Do you have a source for the 'only minor losses for the Germanic tribes'? Afaik we know very little about the Germanic side at all. Most of what we know is in fact due to Roman historians who mostly wrote about the events decades and centuries after they happened.
- WJW 4y agoI don't have 'proper' sources, this is just what it says on wikipedia. The article does motivate why they say Germanic losses were only minor though, for example by comparing relative prevalence of Germanic and Roman archeological remains on the site.
- t_mann 4y agoInteresting, the German wikipedia article (that is considerably longer) doesn't mention anything of the sort, only that we don't know. There's even a lengthy discussion (and a separate article [0]) about how we don't even know the location of the battle, so any statements about the battle based on archeological evidence should be taken with a huge grain of salt (there are some candidates, and there's even a giant statue at a supposed location, but that has more to do with nationalism than archeology). Sounds like it might be worth adding a [citation needed] to the English version. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorien_und_Spekulationen_zum_Ort_der_Varusschlacht https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorien_und_Spekulationen_zum...