Searching for the Lost of World War One
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Were These Letters Based on Fact?
There was a lot of debate at the time about how euphemistic or not these letters should be. There were a lot of different ways of describing these terribly gruesome deaths. The directive from the department was generally that you should encourage interviewes to tell the truth, but also that you should relay those truths. So i think in general, those plies that had the ring of truth were thought to provide something closer to what the families really needed.
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