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Fragmented OCR recounts grim 1900s plague and wartime losses
The readable text depicts scattered references to wartime numbers, massacres, and disease in Europe and colonies. It cites Nordhausen and Prussia killings, French involvement, and large mortality figures, including thousands of white children and colored children affected by “adopation,” with references to the Cape Colony and 20,000 white children among a 689,000 population.
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Sven Gus
Sep
Boslory
Waderakieta
de Brie
Nordhausen
Prussia
France
Creal
Itatiana
la Cape Colony
Olas
Lon Neil Nersasog