The British Isles under Cromwell
England suffered 8% population loss. Ireland 20% (which is more than Cambodia under Pol Pot)
Germany During the 30 years war
“Careful analysis of of all the 800 or so German parish registers that survive for the period 1632-7 found that only five did not record a significant mortality crisis ... the accounts of 235 eyewitnesses have survived … three-quarters of the civilians stated that they had been plundered by troops – some of them repeatedly. Johann Georg Tenner, a rural pastor near Nuremberg noted that soldiers passed through his village 61 times in 1634 alone, causing serious damage … Over half the writers reported having to flee their homes at least once; almost half reported the murder by soldiers of individuals whom they had known personally; and about one fifth described being assaulted themselves." - Geoffrey Parker (Historian)
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"The times were awful beyond measure. To tell of all the misery and misfortune is not within my power, not even what I know and have seen myself … if I did report everything which I have seen and so painfully experienced, no-one living in a better age would believe it'
- Excerpt from the private journal of Caspar Preis, Peasant from Hessen
"First came the Greycoats to eat all my Swine,
Next came the Bluecoats to make my sons Fight,
Next came the Greencoats to make my wife Whore,
Next came the Browncoats to burn down my Home.
I have naught but my life, now come the Blackcoats to rob me of that."
- Anonymous Poem
“Pray, child, Pray!
Tomorrow comes the Swede,
Tomorrow comes the Oxenstierna,
He will soon teach you to pray.
Pray, child, pray!”
- Traditional Childrens rhyme found across Germany in many diverse regions and dialects
Hell, most of 17th century Europe and the non-european territories which had the misfortune to be conquered by Europeans
*One of the main drivers of this mass death -
which as percentage of population blows The Eastern Front of the Second World War or Cambodia in the 70's out of the water - was concerted effort by governments to impose religious ideology. This is also the climax of the Great European Witch Hunt. Definitely meets modern criteria for dystopia.