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Aaron E. Glatt, MD
Nassau County Medical Center East Meadow, NY

JAMA. 1991;266(23):3281.

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To the Editor.

—I was extremely dismayed to read the sterilized historical review by Garfield and Neugut¹ on their "Epidemiologic Analysis of Warfare." They claim to have assessed "risk factors for injury and death," and they discussed the reasons for increased casualties among "civilians" during wars of the 20th century. Table 4 of the article details the number of civilian casualties estimated in World War II but contains at least three factual errors when it is compared with their own reference² and amounts to a difference of more than 2 million casualties.

More than 6 million civilians were killed in Poland, with millions more killed in Germany and other European countries. The authors then gave percentages of populations who were decimated by this "warfare," ie, 20% of "Polish" people lost their lives.

What the authors in their five pages did not find room to express, however, was that . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by Drummond Rennie, MD, Deputy Editor (West), and Bruce B. Dan, MD, Senior Editor.

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