World War II had an enormous effect on the world's human and physical geography, during this time many countries were struggling with the great depression, and Hitler took this time of world deprivation and was voted into power by Germany in 1933, Hitler soon became dismissive of Jews and was becoming more powerful and wanted to take land from Poland which ultimately began WWII in 1939. Worldwide famine as well as the effect bombs had left behind a unfortunate reality to those effected by the fatal bombings which occurred in Great Britain, Japan, Poland, and Germany. Millions died due to these unfortunate conditions they had to live in. Human geography was not only being changed by the war going on in Germany during this time, but famine was …show more content…
Many countries did not have large supplies of food because of the great depression as well as the effects of WWII. Many expecting mothers at the time were surviving off the bare minimum of 400-800 calories a day as a result many children and mothers suffered from low nutrition. Another area heavily impacted by this was Bengal, which was responsible for one of the largest losses of life in the British Empire due to little food and nutrition. Little children were begging for food on the streets with silhouettes that resembled bone, all of which were crowding in areas in an effort to get something; just from Bengal close to 3-5 million died. Additionally, during WWII close to 5 million red cross soldiers were under the captivity of the Germans and an estimated 3 million died from starvation and exhaustion. These men were forced to walk miles and miles each day under terrible conditions with little sustenance. The demographics in these areas as well as other areas changed drastically as millions of all age groups died in a short amount of time, this much of a change out of nowhere was close to eliminating certain groups of