More than a quarter were killed, captured, or porté disparu,

超过四分之一的人被杀被捕或失踪
classified as disappeared, nothing left.

下落不明什么也没留下
Battlefields were no longer called the field of glory.

战场不再被称为荣耀之地
That went.

变了
The language went.

语言也变了
I make an allusion to that, which is an obvious one,

我举个例子很显而易见的例子
at the end of what you read.

你读完就会知道
Also, there's a brutalization of the sense of humanity that you lost

此外就是人性已经沦为兽性
because you were dealing with so many people dead all around.

因为你们周围全是死人
You were fighting for your life.

你为了生活而战
The attitude that people had toward other people changes,

人们对彼此之间的态度有所转变
and the demons of the twentieth century--fascism above all--

二十世纪的魔鬼主要是法西斯主义