Germany: 157,621 casualties (27,074 dead (The final count of the German dead is possibly as high as 49,000 men when including the losses suffered by the Kriegsmarine, because of additional non-combat causes, the wounded who died of their injuries, and the missing who were confirmed as dead. Burma (inc. India): 163,000, 1,500, (164,500) By 1940, 48,773 were purged - 90 percent of its generals, 80 percent of its colonels, and half of its core commanders - leaving the army with unskilled officers, few trained leaders, and poor morale. [477]. The Survey believes the dead at Hiroshima to have been between 70,000 and 80,000, with an equal number injured; at Nagasaki over 35,000 dead and somewhat more than that injured seems the most plausible estimate. In addition 2,000 Danish volunteers were killed serving in the German military. Estimated civilian deaths range from about 14 to 17 million. Russian demographer Boris Urlanis estimated Czechoslovak war dead of 340,000 persons, 46,000 military and 294,000 civilians. For the purposes of CWGC the dates of inclusion for Commonwealth War Dead are 3 September 1939 to 31 December 1947. The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. In January 1945 the German bridgehead over the river Roer between Heinsberg and Roermond was cleared during Operation Blackcock. by Konrad Adenauer. The casualties listed here include 19 to 25million war-related famine deaths in the USSR, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and India that are often omitted from other compilations of World War II casualties.[14][15]. Civilian deaths totaled 50-55 million. 4-The figures for Army wounded add up to 4,219,211. Among the Allied powers, the U.S.S.R. suffered the greatest total number of dead: perhaps 18,000,000. With the Luftwaffe unable to defeat the RAF in the Battle of Britain, the invasion of Great Britain could no longer be thought of as an option. Suchdienstes, 1965. However, much was learned as a result of the operation these lessons would be put to good use in the subsequent invasion. Civilian deaths were caused by Allied bombing and shellfire and Japanese atrocities. The German Army Group B commanded by Field Marshal Walther Model was trapped in the Ruhr Pocket and 300,000 soldiers became POWs. A large number of partisans and members of the RSI forces were former members of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy, to which is referred the 3,430,000 figure. An academic study of the Chinese population concluded that "a conservative estimate would put total human casualties directly caused by the war of 19371945 at between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000". Military dead were estimated with Soviet forces at 15,000 and 5,000 with German. Italian losses amounted to 1,250 killed or missing, 4,780 wounded, and no information is provided on any who were captured. The German military participated in many aspects of the Holocaust: in supporting Hitler, in the use of forced labor, and in the mass murder of Jews and other groups targeted by the Nazis. An additional 700,000 were taken prisoner by the Soviets were 50,000 died in forced labor in the USSR and Outer Mongolia. Latze Member Posts: 377 Joined: 08 May 2010, 17:55 Re: German Casualties - Eastern Front vs. Western Front by Latze 14 Sep 2015, 23:06 [178] Andrzej Paczkowski puts the number of Polish deaths at 90,000100,000 of the 1.0million persons deported and 30,000 executed by the Soviets. Unlike other parts of South East Asia, Thailand did not suffer from famine during the war. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September. Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961 pp. However, when the Allies made a counter-landing in Norway following the German invasion, the Germans repulsed them and defeated the Norwegian armed forces, driving the latter into exile. 600,000 POWs of Allies; 50,000 POWs of Russians; 650,000 POWs of Germans, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR (POWs) AND MISSING IN ACTION (MIAs), U. S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR (POWs) AND MISSING IN ACTION (MIAs) (incl. They place the ultimate blame for the mass flight and expulsion on the wartime policy of the Nazis in Eastern Europe. According to the College of Education of the University of South Florida "Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy". With regards to the Partisan casualties, a ministerial study published in 1955 listed the partisans killed or executed as 35,828; however, the, With regards to the Italian Social Republic casualties, the. This report (HMSO 6832) listed: The preliminary 1945 data for UK colonial forces was killed 6,877, missing 14,208, wounded 6,972 and. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth place. (Victims of Two Dictatorships. Colonial forces are not included in these figures. Eng. Third Axis Fourth Ally. Philippines military losses were 57,000 including 7,000 KIA in 194142 campaign, 8,000 guerrillas KIA 194245 and 42,000 POWs(out of 98,000). A joint CzechGerman Historical Commission determined that between 15,000 and 30,000 Germans perished in the expulsions. [261] (figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). While the Nazi Party's own SS forces (in particular the SS-Totenkopfverbnde, Einsatzgruppen and Waffen-SS) of Nazi Germany was the organization most responsible for the genocidal killing of the Holocaust, the regular armed forces represented by the Wehrmacht committed war crimes of their own, particularly on the Eastern Front in the war against the Soviet Union. WW1 started on July 28th 1914 and ended on November 11th 1918 and it lasted 1567 days. 41112. Military deaths 6,750 which included 3,900 regular Army, 2,600 Navy forces, and 250 POW in Germany. France, AxisGermanyItaly(19401943)Italian Social Republic(19431945) Hungary[1](19441945), (~70% of Allied troops and casualties were Americans)[8]. Bonn 1989 P.53 (38,000 during wartime flight; 5,000 in USSR as forced labor and 160,000 in internment camps), The Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960, pp. [Tokyo], 1949, p. 1058, Tables 60809, Annual Changes in Population of Japan Proper 1 October 19201 October 1947, General Headquarters for the Allied Powers Economic and Scientific Section Research and Programs Division. 33 Swedish sailors were killed when submarine HMS Ulven was sunk by a German mine on April 16, 1943. Their advance only slowed down as they encountered regrouped and entrenched German troops in the Vosges Mountains. Historians often put forward many different estimates of the numbers killed and wounded during World War II. "Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Netherlands" (PDF). According to the official history of the Italian Army (Rovighi, Alberto (1988), Estimates for total Japanese war dead in 19371945 range from at least 2.5million. The Ustasa also killed most of Croatia's Jews, 20,000 Gypsies, and many thousands of their political enemies. Holocaust Encyclopedia "Mosaic of Victims: Overview", "Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida, A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Encyclopedia: "Genocide of European Roma, 19391945", "Romanies and the Holocaust: A Reevaluation and an Overview", Jewish Responses to the Porajmos The Romani Holocaust, "Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Demographer Boris Urlanis estimated Romanian war dead at 300,000 military and 200,000 civilians. According to Norwegian government sources the war dead were 10,200. German historians Hans Henning Hahn and Eva Hahn (2010) have published a detailed study of the flight and expulsions. German efforts to interdict the Allies' trans-Atlantic trade at sea ignited the Battle of the Atlantic. The figures for these losses are currently disputed, estimates of the total deaths range from 500,000 to 2,000,000. [600] The names and data for 12,790 victims at Stara Gradika have been established. Ingo Haar, "Hochgerechnetes Unglck, Die Zahl der deutschen Opfer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird bertrieben", Rdiger Overmans- "Personelle Verluste der deutschen Bevlkerung durch Flucht und Vertreibung". Warsaw 1966, Ruas, scar Vasconcelos, "Relatrio 194647", AHU, Urlanis, Boris (1971). - (Russian Academy of Sciences). Answer (1 of 5): WW1 total military deaths: between 8 573 054 and 10 824 236. 1823, Mikhalev, S. N (2000). Java: 2,700, 3,800, (6,500) (1 January 1995). The Auckland War Museum puts the number of World War II dead at 11,671. UK total casualties were 68,111 including 11,000 KIA. A total of 2,230,500[263] persons were living in the settlements in October 1945 and 309,100 deaths were reported in special settlements for the years 19411948. Army total 1,140,429 killed and 295,247 wounded. Bureau odszkodowan wojennych, Statement on war losses and damages of Poland in 19391945. I believe that it was just as bad for Russians taken prisoners by the Germans on the Eastern front. Army (1974) The Maschke Commission found that about 1.2million German military personnel reported as missing more than likely died as POWs, including 1.1million in the USSR. E. Bruce Reynolds, "Aftermath of Alliance: The Wartime Legacy in Thai-Japanese Relations". Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. This page was last edited on 21 December 2022, at 04:17. Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 50-56 million, with an additional estimated 19-28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine. To this must be added the 263,000655,000 who died, giving a rough total of 8 million German soldiers having served on the Western Front in 19441945. Total U.S. military deaths in battle and from other causes were 407,316. [255], In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated 150,000 Polish citizens were killed due to Soviet repression. 2-These statistics include casualties of the volunteer forces from the Soviet Union. [252] Rosefielde maintains that the data from the Soviet archives is incomplete; for example, he pointed out that the figures do not include the 22,000 victims of the Katyn massacre. The Allies had been arguing about whether to advance on a broad-front or a narrow-front from before D-Day. The French Ministry of Defense puts French military war dead at 200,000. During the war, Swedish merchant shipping was attacked by both German and Soviet submarines; 2,000 merchant seamen were killed. The Germans managed to hold a large bridgehead (the Colmar Pocket), on the western bank of the Rhine and centered around the city of Colmar. Moscow 1971, p. 294, Poyer, Lin; Falgout, Suzanne; Carucci, Laurence Marshall. Gruhl estimates POW deaths in Japanese captivity at 331,584. Heike Liebau et al., World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions, and Perspectives from Africa and Asia. The Black Forest and Baden were overrun by the French First Army.[when?] Germany (West). Military deaths from all causes totaled 21-25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. However, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, had suffered serious losses in Norway, and in order to even consider an amphibious landing, Germany's Air Force (the Luftwaffe) had to first gain air superiority or air supremacy. Second phase: July-September 1916 The database includes all servicemen and women who died during being listed in the Finnish army, navy or the air force. Moscow Page 294. Millions also died as a result of other German actions. Croatian emigres in the west made exaggerated allegations that 500,000600,000 Croatians and Chetniks were massacred by the Partisans after the war; these claims are cited by, This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 01:07. [256] In 2005 Tadeusz Piotrowski estimated the death toll in Soviet hands at 350,000. According to U.S. War Department figures, 18,745 American civilians were interned in the war (13,996 in the Far East and 4,749 in Europe). World War 2's Eastern Front From Stalingrad To Berlin In 48 Photos How The Eastern Front Decided World War II Published August 11, 2019 Updated August 20, 2019 The Nazis suffered 80 percent of their casualties on World War II's Eastern Front, the deadliest theater in the history of war. During World War II, 1.2million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. After the reoccupation by the USSR, 16,000 Estonians died in Soviet repressions during 194453. Altogether 35,000 of the 240,000 Europeans died; most of them were men of working age.". Statistics on the number of military wounded are included whenever available. Japan proper 10,543 killed and 6,782 wounded. These figures are for Germany in 1937 borders. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in terms of total dead, with some 75 million people casualties including military and civilians, or around 3% of the world's population at the time. On 19 August, the French Resistance (FFI) organised a general uprising and the liberation of Paris took place on 25 August when general Dietrich von Choltitz accepted the French ultimatum and surrendered to general Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, commander of the Free French 2nd Armored Division, ignoring orders from Hitler that Paris should be held to the last and destroyed. 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Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. During the push east, the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Magdeburg, Halle and Leipzig were strongly defended by ad hoc German garrisons made up of regular troops, Flak units, Volkssturm and armed Nazi Party auxiliaries. The death toll attributable to the flight and expulsions was estimated at 2.2million by the West German government in 1958. The war was notable for the Nazi-sponsored genocide of the Jewish peoples resulting in more than 5.9 million deaths, and the impact of "Total War" on the world's population. During World War II, 14,059 American POWs died in enemy captivity throughout the war (12,935 held by Japan and 1,124 held by Germany). Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2005; Gregory Frumkin. Lesser Sundas: 51,800, 1,200, (53,000) Having been taken by surprise, the Allies regrouped and the Germans were stopped by a combined air and land counter-attack which eventually pushed them back to their starting points by 25 January 1945. Seventh and Third Armies) into southeastern Germany and Austria. They reported, "The total number who were killed by the Japanese, or who died from, hunger, disease and lack of medical attention is estimated at 3,000,000 for Java alone, 1,000,000 for the Outer Islands. 20,400 killed by acts of war, 104,000 Jewish Holocaust dead, 18,000 political prisoners in Germany, 27,000 workers in Germany, [391] German government reports which were released to the public in 1987 and 1989 have caused some historians in Germany to put the actual total at 500,000 to 600,000. Polska 19391945. Andreev EM; Darsky LE; Kharkova TL, Population dynamics: consequences of regular and irregular changes. Universe, Inc. (July 13, 2005). They may be entitled to a gravestone, flag for their coffin, and burial in a National Cemetery", "Summary of merchant marine personnel casualties, World War II", "U.S. The raid was a disaster, almost two-thirds of the attacking force became casualties. But Nazi Germany's military position had been hopeless ever since she had failed to drive the Allied forces into the sea on D-Day. 2: 1978 (3,000,000), Encyclopdia Britannica 1992 (2,384,000), The Expulsion of "German" Communities from Eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War, Steffen Prauser and Arfon Rees, European University Institute, Florence. When scholarly sources differ on the number of deaths in a country, a range of war losses is given, in order to inform readers that the death toll is disputed. 3,700 Dutch nationals in the German armed forces and 7,500 missing and presumed dead in Germany and 16,000 deaths In 1948 the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) issued a report of war losses. According to Sergei Maksudov, a Russian demographer living in the west, the population of the territories annexed by the USSR was 23million less the net population transfers out of 3million persons who emigrated from the USSR including 2,136,000 Poles who left the USSR; 115,000 Polish soldiers of the, Polish sources put the number of refugees from the. The following notes summarize Soviet casualties, the details are presented in World War II casualties of the Soviet Union. Total losses were 420,000 British, 200,000 French . 1992-6, Stephane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard Univ Pr, 1999. $19.99 + $4.99 shipping . 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