All sides practiced the shooting of hostages on a large scale. D. The systematic extermination of large numbers of people for political, religious or racial reasons. Demographer Boris Urlanis estimated Romanian war dead at 300,000 military and 200,000 civilians. There were an additional 31,271 military deaths due to "natural causes" which are not included in these figures. Military casualties include deaths of regular military forces from combat as well as non-combat causes. Persons unaccounted for might have been burned beyond recognition in the falling buildings, disposed of in one of the mass cremations of the first week of recovery, or driven out of the city to die or recover without any record remaining. 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. On 16 November the Allies started a large scale autumn offensive called Operation Queen. David M. Glantz, Siege of Leningrad 1941 1944 Cassell 2001. [94] MacDonald, C (2005), The Last Offensive: The European Theater of Operations. The Americans accidentally bombed neutral Switzerland during the war causing civilian casualties. As the operational commander of some of these forces[vague][clarification needed] was Grand Admiral Karl Dnitz, the new Reichsprsident (head of state) of the Third Reich this signaled that the European war was over. The principal belligerents were Russia and Romania (of the Allied and Associated Powers) versus the Central Powers countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria. by Michael Berenbaum New York University Press 1990; Niewyk, Donald L. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2000; Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, Basic Books 2010, pp. Total war dead of 357,116; Navy (50,758); Army (144,079); Air Force (69,606); Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (624); 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. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[236]. [45], This article is about the West European theatre. p. 273; Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito, Ishikida, Miki (2005). [nb 12] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered as separate theatres. There were only some local, minor skirmishes. The names of individual U.S. military personnel killed in World War II can be found at the U.S. National Archives. The Germans in France were now faced by three powerful Allied army groups: in the north the British 21st Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, in the center the American 12th Army Group, commanded by General Omar Bradley and to the south the US 6th Army Group commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers. Total Bulgarian military war dead were 18,500 including 6,671 battle deaths. in Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Before 1991. Mai 1974. They place the ultimate blame for the mass flight and expulsion on the wartime policy of the Nazis in Eastern Europe. I test every recipe I post. (German government Statistical Office), Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960 Bonn 1961 p.79 (available online at, German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. Starting in early September, the Americans began slow and bloody fighting through the Hurtgen Forest ("Passchendaele with tree bursts"Hemingway) to breach the Line. ^S Germany Moscow, Nauka, 1993; S. N. Mikhalev, Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie, Krasnoiarskii gos. U.S. 22629, journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. 2,055,575 German soldiers surrendered between D-Day and 16 April 1945, The Times, 19 April p 4; 755,573 German soldiers surrendered between 1 and 16 April, The Times, 18 April p 4, which means that 1,300,002 German soldiers surrendered to the Western Allies between D-Day and the end of March 1945. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. On 15 August the Allies launched Operation Dragoon the invasion of Southern France between Toulon and Cannes. Third Axis Fourth Ally. Dieter Pohl, Verfolgung und Massenmord in der NS-Zeit 19331945, WBG (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 2003; Rossiiskaia Akademiia nauk. Total losses were 420,000 British, 200,000 French . 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. That was sometimes done if the deceased was, for example, an ammunition worker, air raid victim or a civilian worker who for some other reason died because of the war. On 4 April the encirclement was completed and the Ninth Army reverted to the command of Bradley's 12th Army Group. universitet, 2000; (Russian Academy of Sciences). The exact number of dead and injured will never be known because of the confusion after the explosions. Fighting began with Operation Weserbung, the German invasion of Denmark and Norway, in April, 1940. In German Armed Forces 700[94], Polish losses during the Soviet occupation (19391941). Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945 Transaction 2007, Ho Ping-ti. Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961 pp. Advancing from northern Italy, the British Eighth Army[a] pushed to the borders of Yugoslavia to defeat the remaining Wehrmacht elements there. 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. Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 20132014, page 44. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70-85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 2.3 billion (est.) French Indochina 2,803 killed and 6,000 wounded. With an introd. The port of Antwerp was liberated on 4 September by the British 11th Armoured Division. Ellis provides no figure for Danish casualties, he places Norwegian losses at 2,000 killed or missing with no information provided on those wounded or captured. Census Bureau cited the following source for the population at 1/1/1939 for Czechoslovakia, State Statistical Office, Statistical Bulletin of Czechoslovakia, v. II (1947) no. ), Mnchen: Piper 1989, S. 858873, Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito. Nor do the figures include additional deportations after the war). Central Pacific: 95,800, 151,400, (247,200) Most of the troops were Canadian, with some British contingents and a small American and Free French presence along with British and Polish naval support. These were built in anticipation of an Allied invasion of France. The campaign to clear the Scheldt Estuary along with Operation Pheasant was a decisive victory for the Allies, as it allowed a greatly improved delivery of supplies directly from Antwerp, which was far closer to the front than the Normandy beaches. Many civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation. Altogether 35,000 of the 240,000 Europeans died; most of them were men of working age.". 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". Losses of about 10,000 in the German Armed Forces are not included in these figures, they are included with German military casualties. 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. people on Earth in 1940. 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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. Ingo Haar, "Hochgerechnetes Unglck, Die Zahl der deutschen Opfer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird bertrieben", Sddeutsche Zeitung, November 14, 2006. Sakhalin, the Aleutian, and Kuril Islands: 8,200, 3,200, (11,400) Mai 1974. The attack started on 16 December in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge. 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. [147] Archivalien und ausgewhlte Erlebnisberichte. Eisei Ishikawa, David L. Swain, Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Nagasaki The Physical Medical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings, Basic Books, 1981. [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. Formosa (Taiwan): 28,500, 10,600, (39,100) World War 2 was the bloodiest conflict in human history. The estimated breakdown for each Soviet republic of total war dead[10]^AY4. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, others I have cooked just . No reliable statistics on Albania's wartime losses exist, but the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration reported about 30,000 Albanian war dead. [12] The authors of the Oxford Companion to World War II maintain that "casualty statistics are notoriously unreliable". The U.S. Bureau of the Census noted that the official Yugoslav government figure of 1.7million war dead was overstated because it "was released soon after the war and was estimated without the benefit of a postwar census". [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. 15", "Figures were compiled by the Relief Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in March 1964", American Historical Association: Lessons from Iwo Jima footnote 1, "Reports of General MacArthur. E. Reduced food supply caused famine and disease. Aiming to recapture Strasbourg, the Germans attacked the 6th Army Group at multiple points. By V-E Day, the US 12th Army Group was a force of four armies (First, Third, Ninth and Fifteenth) that numbered over 1.3million men. Eng. The next month, the Germans launched the Battle of France . Civilian deaths totaled 5055million. In Berlin, the Reichsbanner resistance organization identified possible drop zones for Allied paratroopers and planned to guide them past German defenses into the city.[43]. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. 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. According to Norwegian government sources the war dead were 10,200. Determined stands were made in April by German forces at Heilbronn, Nuremberg, and Munich but were overcome after several days.[when?] Included in the losses are 64,000 victims of Nazi reprisals and genocide including 30,000 POWs and 8,500 Jews. Included in the figures of total war dead for each nation are victims of the Holocaust. 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. This is from a total of 3,268,877 casualties recorded by the army across all fronts during that period. 2-These statistics include casualties of the volunteer forces from the Soviet Union. Informationen zur Klrung der Schicksale von Flchtlingen aus den. They estimated German casualties up until April 30, 1945, at 2,230,324 dead, 2,870,404 missing and POW held by Allies. POW deaths 4,000. Totally barbarism prevailed. 3133 (figure includes 170,000 German Jews). According to the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare 65,000 soldiers and civilians were killed in the 1945 military campaign against the Soviet Union. Presse- und Informationsamt. 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. Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960, p. 78. Total deaths from 1940 to 1953 due to the war and the Soviet occupation were approximately 83,000 persons (7.3% of the population). In: Wolfgang Benz (Hg. Entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties during attacks and counter-attacks and no significant advances were made. It was estimated that 200,000 soldiers died in World War II in the European theatre. 14,072 dead while POWs), Wirtschaft und Statistik November 1949 pp. [475], 4-The Effects of strategic bombing on Japanese morale Based on a survey of Japanese households the death toll was put at 900,000 dead and 1.3million injured, the SBS noted that this figure was subject to a maximum sampling error of 30%. Total U.S. military deaths in battle and from other causes were 407,316. Universe, Inc. (July 13, 2005). (figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). Civilian deaths of 203,250 which included 1,350 Merchant seaman, 2,800 executed, 2,500 dead in Dutch concentration camps, The New York Times. Holocaust Encyclopedia "Jehovah's Witnesses", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Encyclopedia: "Freemasonry Under the Nazi Regime", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2005; Gregory Frumkin. pp. As the Allies advanced across France, their supply lines stretched to breaking point. Some 40,000 Roma were murdered. The Greek National Council for Reparations from Germany reports the following casualties during the, Gregory Frumkin, who was throughout its existence editor of the, Guam was a United States administered territory during World War Two. Merchant Navy (530); British Home Guard (0) and Civilians (0). The RAF lost 931 aircraft. Percy Schramm Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht: 1940 1945: 8 Bde. This report (HMSO 6832) listed: The preliminary 1945 data for UK colonial forces was killed 6,877, missing 14,208, wounded 6,972 and. 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Germany (West). 43,110 Germans killed or missing, 111,640 wounded, no information is provided on any who were captured. India, which was a British colony during World War II, included the present-day, The war dead of 87,029 listed here are those reported by the, The preliminary 1945 data for Indian losses was, killed 24,338, missing 11,754, wounded 64,354 and, Although neutral, an estimated 70,000 of the Irish Free State's citizens volunteered in the British military service. 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. 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. Mentally and Physically Handicapped: Victims of the Nazi Era", Bundesarchiv: Euthanasie-Verbrechen 19391945, "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Aufl. The United Nations reported in 1947 that "about 30,000 Europeans and 300,000 Indonesian internees and forced laborers died during the occupation." The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses. "United States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report United States Government Printing Office Washington: 1946 p. 20", United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division, "United States Strategic Bombing Survey The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki United States Government Printing Office Washington: 1946, p. 15", "R.J. Rummel "Statistics of democide: Genocide and Mass Murder since 1900" Transaction 1998; ISBN 3-8258-4010-7 (Chapter 3)", "Allied Merchant Navy Memorial in Newfoundland", "Gordon, Maj. Richard M., (U.S. Army, retired) (28 October 2002). Hope yall enjoy!Buy us . [13] The table below gives data on the number of dead and military wounded for each country, along with population information to show the relative impact of losses. Regarding overall losses, they concluded that "It was further estimated that an additional number, approximately 25% of known deaths in 194445, were still unrecovered and unrecorded. people on Earth in 1940. The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. 5-Figures of missing include POWs held by Allies. Toward Peace: War Responsibility, Postwar Compensation, and Peace Movements and Education in Japan. The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. For the 19411944 Soviet military formation, see, Battles for Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, Ultimately under the command of Field Marshal, Interlude between 25 June 1940 to 6 June 1944. Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. (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. [1] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered under separate headings. However, as the breakout took place during Operation Cobra at the western end of the bridge-head, the 21st Army Group that included the British and Canadian forces swung east and headed for Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern Germany, while the U.S. Twelfth Army Group advanced to their south via eastern France, Luxembourg and the Ruhr Area, rapidly fanning out into a broad front. The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Gtz von Berlichingen was located just south of the Loire in the vicinity of Tours. In addition, the war and genocidal policy were inextricably linked. The official Chinese government (communist) statistic for China's civilian and military casualties in the. e The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe ( Baltics ), and Southeast Europe ( Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. [393][394][395][396][397][398][399][400][401][402], German government figures of 2.0 to 2.5million civilian deaths due to expulsions have been disputed by scholars since the publication of the results of the German church search service survey and the report by the German Federal Archive. ^I China I believe that it was just as bad for Russians taken prisoners by the Germans on the Eastern front. [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. 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