[4][5][2] In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated Poland's dead at between 5.6 and 5.8 million. Forced laborers in Southeast Asia: 70,000, 30,000 interned non-Asian civilians, The number killed in action was 2,303,320; died of wounds, disease or accidents 500,165; 11,000 sentenced to death by court martial; 2,007,571. There were an additional 31,271 military deaths due to "natural causes" which are not included in these figures. Bonn 1989 pp. The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. Total casualties were 668,315 including 299,485 dead, 24,010 missing and 344,820 injured. "Bataan, Corregidor, and the Death March: In Retrospect", "go to note on Polish Casualties by Tadeusz Piotrowski at the bottom of the page", "Victims of the Nazi Regime-Database of Polish citizens repressed under the German Occupation", Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2013-2014, "Michael Ellman and S. 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Because of the massive logistical obstacles a cross-channel invasion would face, the Allied high command decided to conduct a practice attack against the French coast. ), Mnchen: Piper 1989, S. 858873, Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito. According to Russian estimates the population in 1939 included 20.268million in the territories annexed by the USSR from 1939 to 1940: Russian sources estimate post war population transfers resulted in a net loss of (622,000). [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. Percy Schramm Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht: 1940 1945: 8 Bde. In this uncertain situation, estimates of casualties have generally ranged between 100,000 and 180,000 for Hiroshima, and between 50,000 and 100,000 for Nagasaki. For the purposes of CWGC the dates of inclusion for Commonwealth War Dead are 3 September 1939 to 31 December 1947. Of 7,080 BEF casualties, 5,533 losses were incurred by the 5th Australian Division; German losses were 1,600-2,000, with 150 taken prisoner. POW deaths 3,000. [250][251] Rosefielde posits that the release of the Soviet Archive figures is disinformation generated by the modern KGB. Army GroupG, considering the possibility of an invasion on the Atlantic coast, had dispersed its mobile reserves, locating the 11th Panzer Division in Gironde, the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich refitting around the southern French town of Montauban, and the 9th Panzer Division stationed in the Rhone delta area. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945 Transaction 2007, Ho Ping-ti. Civilian deaths totaled 50-55 million. Total deaths from 1940 to 1953 due to the war and the Soviet occupation were approximately 83,000 persons (7.3% of the population). Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. The first phase saw the capitulation of Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium, and France during May and June 1940 after their defeat in the Low Countries and the northern half of France, and continued into an air war between Germany and Britain that climaxed with the Battle of Britain. A total of 2,419 American civilian internees were listed as dead and missing. This was followed by a pincer movement of the First Canadian Army in Operation Veritable advancing from the Nijmegen area of the Netherlands, and the US Ninth Army crossing the Roer in Operation Grenade. Hitler survived to wreak a terrible vengeance on at least 2,000 army officers (including Rommel) and launch a desperate counter-attack on the Western Front in December 1944, now known as the 'Battle of the Bulge'. Military casualties include deaths of regular military forces from combat as well as non-combat causes. C. Deliberate acts of reprisal against target populations were perpetrated by all combatants. An additional 700,000 were taken prisoner by the Soviets were 50,000 died in forced labor in the USSR and Outer Mongolia. "Hvor mange drbte danskere?". The British used the Egyptian army to guard lines of communication and to clear minefields. Cuba lost 5 merchant ships and 79 merchant mariners died. Since the collapse of the USSR, Polish scholars have been able to do research in the Soviet archives on Polish losses during the Soviet occupation. The plan called Wacht am Rhein ("Watch on the Rhine") was to attack through the Ardennes and swing north to Antwerp, splitting the American and British armies. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth place. The offensive ended with Arnhem remaining in German hands and the Allies holding an extended salient from the Belgian border to the area between Nijmegen and Arnhem. 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. Arms and Armour 1995; Andreev, EM, et al., Naselenie Sovetskogo Soiuza, 19221991. Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie (Human Losses in the Great Patriotic War 19411945 A Statistical Investigation). people on Earth in 1940. Germany (West). German casualties based on statistics collected during the war included 27,074 KIA, 18,384 MIA and 111,034 WIA. Personelle Verluste der deutschen Bevlkerung durch Flucht und Vertreibung. The US Ninth Army, which had remained under British command since the battle of the Bulge, went south as the northern pincer of the Ruhr encirclement as well as pushing elements east. Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths and wounded caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject. Civilians in Navy service 114,493 killed and 1,880 wounded and missing. Thomas M. Leonard, John F. Bratzel, George Lauderbaugh. [246] Since 1990 Russian scholars have been given access to the Soviet-era archives and have published data on the numbers of people executed and those who died in Gulag labor camps and prisons. The Japanese interned 105,530 Dutch civilians in the East Indies, of whom 13,567 died. Military Losses by theatre of war: Italy 74,725 (37,573 post armistice); France 2,060 (1,039 post armistice); 21st Army Group was then instead ordered to move northeast toward Bremen and Hamburg. Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, urged Eisenhower to continue the advance toward Berlin by the 21st Army Group, under the command of Montgomery with the intention of capturing the city. by Konrad Adenauer. Airborne troops would fly in from the United Kingdom and take bridges over the main rivers of the German-occupied Netherlands in three main cities; Eindhoven, Nijmegen, and Arnhem. HEC No. Included with total war dead are victims of Japanese war crimes. The culmination of Allied counter-attacks restored the front line to the area of the German border and collapsed the Colmar Pocket. No reliable statistics on Albania's wartime losses exist, but the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration reported about 30,000 Albanian war dead. Summary report (1947) Estimated that 252,769 Japanese were killed and 298,650 injured in the air war. USSR 82,079 (3,522 post armistice); Africa 22,341 (1,565 post armistice), at sea 28,438 (5,526 post armistice); 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. Russian sources report that the Soviets reported the POW deaths of 62,105 (61,855 Japanese and 214 collaborator forces) out of the 640,105 captured (609,448 Japanese and 30,657 collaborator forces). . The West German government put the number of Germans killed by the Nazi political, racial and religious persecution at 300,000 (including 170,000 German Jews). The French forces launched a small offensive, the Saar Offensive against Germany in the Saar region but halted their advance and returned. The following notes summarize German casualties, the details are presented in German casualties in World War II. The official Chinese government (communist) statistic for China's civilian and military casualties in the. During World War II, 1.2million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. Out of 60,000 Indian Army POWs taken at the Fall of Singapore, 11,000 died in captivity. [32] If the British had broken out of the Normandy bridgehead (or beachhead) around Caen when they launched Operation Goodwood and pushed along the coast, facts on the ground might have turned the argument in favour of a narrow front. XXX Corps was able to advance beyond six of the seven airborne-held bridges but was unable to link up with the troops near the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem. [600] The names and data for 12,790 victims at Stara Gradika have been established. There were 3,000 civilian deaths in Allied air raids including 1,400 in the bombing of Sofia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded. The New York Times. Demographer Boris Urlanis estimated Romanian war dead at 300,000 military and 200,000 civilians. A Japanese academic study published in 1979 by The Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki puts the total dead in the atomic attacks at 140,000 ( 10,000) in Hiroshima and 70,000 ( 10,000) in Nagasaki. 14,072 dead while POWs), Wirtschaft und Statistik November 1949 pp. Soon after, the Allies were racing across France. [254] Michael Haynes and Rumy Husun accept the figures from the Soviet archives as being an accurate tally of Stalin's victims, they maintain that the demographic data depicts an underdeveloped Soviet economy and the losses in World War Two rather than indicating a higher death toll in the Gulag labor camps. Figure does not include the Nazi euthanasia program, German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. Tams Stark of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has provided the following assessment of Hungarian losses. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. p. 252, Waller Wynne, Population of Czechoslovakia. The RAF lost 931 aircraft. Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. 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These figures (cited below) are based on necessarily rough estimates".[208]. The British, Canadians, French, and other allies in the west lost slightly over 60,000 dead". Army GroupB had the 2nd Panzer Division in northern France, 116th Panzer Division in the Paris area, and the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy. people on Earth in 1940. Entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties during attacks and counter-attacks and no significant advances were made. The Eastern Front, which stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, was more than twice as long as the Western Front. Millions also died as a result of other German actions. On that same day Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, as head of OKW and Jodl's superior, was brought to Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Karlshorst and signed another instrument of surrender that was essentially identical to that signed in Rheims with two minor additions requested by the Soviets. During the war, Swedish merchant shipping was attacked by both German and Soviet submarines; 2,000 merchant seamen were killed. Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. In 2018, the United States Holocaust museum has the number of murdered during the time period of the holocaust at 17million 6million Jews and 11million others. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, others I have cooked just . A raid on Sark on the night of 3/4 October 1942 is notable because a few days after the incursion the Germans issued a propaganda communiqu implying at least one prisoner had escaped and two were shot while resisting having their hands tied. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. ", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. WW2 started . The U.S. Bureau of the Census published a report in 1954 that concluded that Yugoslav war-related deaths were 1,067,000. Total Romanian military war dead were approximately 300,000. In 1948 the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) issued a report of war losses. Austrian civilian casualties were 99,700 victims of Nazi persecution and 24,000 killed in Allied air raids. As the Allies advanced across France, their supply lines stretched to breaking point. Belgian casualties are placed at 7,500 killed or missing, 15,850 wounded, and 200,000 captured. Military war dead reported by Rdiger Overmans of 261,000 are included with Germany. Russian demographer Boris Urlanis estimated Czechoslovak war dead of 340,000 persons, 46,000 military and 294,000 civilians. Generals Eisenhower and Bradley concluded that pushing beyond the Elbe made no sense since eastern Germany was destined in any case to be occupied by the Red Army. in Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Before 1991. [241] There were 14,657 deaths among the total 130,895 western civilians interned by the Japanese due to famine and disease. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[236]. 39,929 Casualties For four brutal years, the Allies had been fighting the central powers, the Empires of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. In October the Americans decided that they could not just invest Aachen and let it fall in a slow siege, because it threatened the flanks of the U.S. Ninth Army. Colonial forces are not included in these figures. Using this definition, the total number of. The Japanese government figures for POW deaths are not in agreement with Soviet figures. Of the country's total casualties, about 2.1 million were military personnel while 500,000-800,000 were civilians. Civilian war dead were approximately 2,100, French military war of 210,000 dead include 150,000 regular forces (193940. 1961 (. Deported from annexed territories 194041 380,000 to 390,000 persons, including: Poland 309312,000; Lithuania 17,500; Latvia 17,000; Estonia 6,000; Moldova 22,842. Included in the figures of total war dead for each nation are victims of the Holocaust. The greatest number of casualties and wounds were inflicted by artillery, followed by small arms, and then by poison gas. by Konrad Adenauer. The names of individual U.S. military personnel killed in World War II can be found at the U.S. National Archives. 22629, journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. Deaths in battle were 292,131. The estimated breakdown for each Soviet republic of total war dead[10]^AY4. In 2006, Christoph Bergner, Secretary of State in, A 2005 report by the German government search service put the death toll at 2,251,500, they did not provide details of the figure. (1993). With an introd. According to the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare Japanese war dead (193745) totaled 3.1million persons including 2.3million soldiers and Army/Navy civilian employees, 500,000 civilians in Japan and 300,000 civilians living outside of Japan. 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. Nazi Empire: German colonialism and imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler. U.S. Von Rundstedt's divisions, which had remained on the west bank, were cut to pieces in the ''battle of the Rhineland' 280,000 men were taken prisoner. [392] English language sources put the death toll at 2 to 3million based on the West German government statistical analysis of the 1950s. The second phase consisted of large-scale ground combat (supported by a massive strategic air war considered to be an additional front), which began in June 1944 with the Allied landings in Normandy and continued until the defeat of Germany in May 1945. ), Independent Russian historian Vadim Erlikman estimated Lithuanian civilian war dead in 194145 at 345,000 (25,000 in military operations; 230,000 executed, 15,000 in Germany and 75,000 due to hunger and disease. Sailors 300,386 killed and 12,275 wounded and missing. Deported during the War 19411945 about 2.3million persons of Soviet ethnic minorities including: Soviet Germans 1,209,000; Finns 9,000; Karachays 69,000; Kalmyks 92,000; Chechens and Ingush 479,000; Balkars 37,000; Crimean Tatars 191,014; Meskhetian Turks 91,000; Greeks, Bulgarians and Armenians from Crimea 42,000; Ukrainian OUN members 100,000; Poles 30,000. Military deaths from all causes totaled 2125million, including deaths in captivity of about 5million prisoners of war. There were only some local, minor skirmishes. H.W. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1996. The deaths of African soldiers conscripted by Italy are not included with the Italian war dead. The Commission determined that the demographic estimates by the German government counted as missing 90,000 ethnic Germans assimilated into the Czech population; military deaths were understated and that the 1950 census data used to compute the demographic losses was unreliable. The 1939 Population for Germany within 1937 borders, Foreign nationals of German ancestry in the countries of, (1949) The West German Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office)estimated total war dead of 5,483,000; (3,250,000)military; (500,000) civilians killed in bombing raids and the land campaign; (1,533,000) deaths in the expulsions from Poland and (200,000) victims of Nazi racial, religious or political persecution. 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Data from this document is listed in, Schimitzek, Stanislaw, Truth or Conjecture? (German Federal Statistical Office), Germany reports. [6] Historian Rdiger Overmans of the Military History Research Office (Germany) published a study in 2000 that estimated the German military dead and missing at 5.3 million, including 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders, in Austria, and in east-central Europe. They maintain that figures related to flight and expulsion have been manipulated by the German government due to political pressure. Moscow 1971, p. 294, Poyer, Lin; Falgout, Suzanne; Carucci, Laurence Marshall. British losses totalled to 11,010 killed or missing, 14,070 wounded (only those who were evacuated have been counted), and 41,340 taken prisoner. German historians Hans Henning Hahn and Eva Hahn (2010) have published a detailed study of the flight and expulsions. ), The Japanese Ministry of Welfare and Foreign Office reported from 1951 to 1960 that 254,000 military personnel and civilians were confirmed dead and 95,000 went missing in Soviet hands after the war. The official casualty statistics published by the governments of the United States, France, and the UK do not give the details of the national origin, race and religion of the losses. [452] In some cases this figure was potentially even higher, up to 80% in the Philippines[453] and a staggering 97% in New Guinea.[454]. 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]. Starting in early September, the Americans began slow and bloody fighting through the Hurtgen Forest ("Passchendaele with tree bursts"Hemingway) to breach the Line. [601] Serbian sources currently claim that 700,000 persons were murdered at Jasenovac. F. Allied bombing of German supply lines caused civilian casualties. : (Human Losses of the USSR during the Second World War: a collection of articles). [45], This article is about the West European theatre. German scholar Hellmuth Auerbach puts the death toll in the Hitler era at 6million Jews killed in the Holocaust and 7million other victims of the Nazis. Warsaw 1947. More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union. $19.99 + $4.99 shipping . China (inc. Hong Kong): 435,600, 20,100, (455,700) Retrieved 4 March 2016. (Victims of Two Dictatorships. The Auckland War Museum puts the number of World War II dead at 11,671. The official U.S. report listed 1 U.S. civilian killed during the, Six U.S. civilians were killed in Oregon in May 1945 by Japanese. Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. With the fighting ended, the Germans began to consider ways of resolving the question of how to deal with Britain. 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. 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. Germany (West). Estimated civilian deaths range from about 14 to 17 million. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Total military dead were put at 4,440,000 (3,760,000 in prewar 1937 borders. Because the Allied lines had become severely stretched in response to the crisis in the Ardennes, holding and throwing back the Nordwind offensive was a costly affair that lasted almost four weeks. Andaman & Nicobar Islands: 900, 1,500, (2,400) ^S Germany [247] The Russian scholar Viktor Zemskov puts the death toll from 1941 to 1945 at about 1million based on data from the Soviet archives. other and unknown 6,844 (3,695 post armistice). Moscow, Nauka, 1993; S. N. Mikhalev, Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie, Krasnoiarskii gos. The database contains civilians in case they have been buried at a military cemetery. Retrieved 4 March 2016. 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. Data from the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation puts the number of Dutch POW captured by the Japanese at 37,000 of whom 8,500 died. These latter groups were not thought worth much effort and were left "to rot", with the exception of Bordeaux, which was liberated in May 1945 by French forces under General Edgard de Larminat (Operation Venerable).[33]. p. 30(500,000 civilians in Japan and 300,000 overseas, figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). The attack was the debut of the Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front and, according to McMullin, "the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history". Field Marshal Montgomery took the German military surrender of all German forces in The Netherlands, northwest Germany and Denmark on Lneburg Heath, an area between the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen, on 4 May 1945. Some 40 Irish citizens were killed by accidental, The Italian government issued an accounting of the war dead in 1957, they broke out the losses before and after the, Military losses in Italy after the September 1943. 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. Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group, persuaded the Allied High Command to launch a bold attack, Operation Market Garden, which he hoped would get the Allies across the Rhine and create the narrow-front he favoured. In addition the civilian population was conscripted by the Japanese as forced laborers and were subjected to numerous mindless atrocities. U.S. Dept. 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. In their hurry to re-arm, Britain and France had both begun to buy large numbers of weapons from manufacturers in the United States at the outbreak of hostilities, supplementing their own production. The German economist. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21-25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. Defending the Ardennes were troops of the US First Army. 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