.: , 1996. [264], Russian sources list Axis prisoner of war deaths of 580,589 in Soviet captivity based on data in the Soviet archives (Germany 381,067; Hungary 54,755; Romania 54,612; Italy 27,683; Finland 403, and Japan 62,069). Suchdienstes, 1965. 1939 WWII Era France Soldiers in Observation Post . On 7 May at his headquarters in Rheims, Eisenhower took the unconditional surrender of all German forces to the western Allies and the Soviet Union,[44] from the German Chief-of-Staff, General Alfred Jodl, who signed the first general instrument of surrender at 0241 hours. New Guinea: 112,400, 15,200, (127,600) p. 30(500,000 civilians in Japan and 300,000 overseas, figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). U.S. Army figures include the deaths of 5,337 from the Philippines and 165 from Puerto Rico (see p.118). Unlike other parts of South East Asia, Thailand did not suffer from famine during the war. [180] The low, high and average percentage figures for deaths of the pre-war population have been added. 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. "Battle for the Roer Triangle". The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. pp. 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'. 41112. Poland lost a total of 139,800 regular soldiers and 100,000. HEC No. Gruhl estimates POW deaths in Japanese captivity at 331,584. C. Deliberate acts of reprisal against target populations were perpetrated by all combatants. However, at least one historian has compared the 1943 famine there to the, The war dead of 11,907 listed here are those reported by the, The preliminary 1945 data for South African losses was killed 6,840, missing 1,841 wounded 14,363 and, This territory includes areas now known as the. It was not possible to predict where the Allies might choose to launch their invasion. Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. On Utah Beach, U.S. troops suffered only 197 casualties, the lightest of any beach, when they accidentally landed in the wrong spot. There are no reliable figures for the casualties of the Soviet Union and China, the two countries in which casualties were undoubtedly greatest. ", "Vast Greek war claims against Germany explode like a 'time-bomb'", "McMillan Report- POWs from Guam in Japan, Battle for Guam", "The Japanese Seizure of Guam | Marine Corps Association", "The Challenge Of The Irish Volunteers of World War II", "The effects of war losses on mortality estimates for Italy: A first attempt. Approximately 150,000 Germans were able to escape from the Falaise pocket, but they left behind most of their irreplaceable equipment and 50,000 Germans were killed or taken prisoner. Sailors 300,386 killed and 12,275 wounded and missing. 19401959 [The Population of Russia in the 20thcentury: volume2], May Rocznik Statystyczny Polski 19391941, Since the Czech Republic as political entity exists only since 1969/1993, this political name stands for Czech part (. Elements of the US 3rd Infantry Division were the first Allied troops to arrive at Berchtesgaden, which they secured, while the French 2nd Armoured Division seized the Berghof (Hitler's Alpine residence) on 4 May 1945. Historians often put forward many different estimates of the numbers killed and wounded during World War II. The preliminary data for Australian losses included 23,365 killed, 6,030 missing, 39,803 wounded, and 26,363 POWs. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. 3133 (figure includes 170,000 German Jews). Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. The military's complicity extended not only to the generals and upper leadership but also to the rank and file. Total killed were 93,326 (72,291 with Axis and 21,035 with Allies). E. Reduced food supply caused famine and disease. The local, According to an official U.S. report during the. This was followed by a tedious campaign to clear a peninsula dominating the estuary, and finally, the amphibious assault on Walcheren Island in November. They estimated German casualties up until April 30, 1945, at 2,230,324 dead, 2,870,404 missing and POW held by Allies. 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. 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. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[236]. POW deaths 4,000. Answer (1 of 5): WW1 total military deaths: between 8 573 054 and 10 824 236. Schramm put the total at 4,188,057. 1- The summary report of September 30, 1945 put total casualties for the entire period of the war at 305,000 killed and 780,000 wounded. The Italian front is considered a separate but related theater. by Konrad Adenauer. All sides practiced the shooting of hostages on a large scale. After the reoccupation by the USSR, 16,000 Estonians died in Soviet repressions during 194453. Following two months of slow fighting in hedgerow country, Operation Cobra allowed the Americans to break out at the western end of the lodgement. [242][243], The total war dead in the USSR includes about 1million[244] victims of Stalin's regime. German Federal Archive Spieler, Silke. [147] [262] On 19 August 1942, the Allies began the Dieppe Raid, an attack on Dieppe, France. Moscow 1971, p. 294, Poyer, Lin; Falgout, Suzanne; Carucci, Laurence Marshall. which are attributed to an increase in natural deaths from 1940 to 1945 and 1,650 foreign nationals killed while serving in the 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. Danish Ministry of Education. A joint CzechGerman Historical Commission determined that between 15,000 and 30,000 Germans perished in the expulsions. universitet (Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University). ), Mnchen: Piper 1989, S. 858873, Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito. Nazi Empire: German colonialism and imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler. 7,614,790 were held in POW camps by early June of 1945 (including 3,404,950 who were disarmed following the surrender of Germany), All totals listed only include direct deaths due to military activity and crimes against humanity, including the, German deployments to the Western Front (plus Italy) reached levels as high as approximately 40% of their ground forces, and 75% of the. 5-Figures of missing include POWs held by Allies. USSR 82,079 (3,522 post armistice); Africa 22,341 (1,565 post armistice), at sea 28,438 (5,526 post armistice); Merchant Mariners killed in World War II are listed by USMM.org. 43,110 Germans killed or missing, 111,640 wounded, no information is provided on any who were captured. 1993. [40], General Eisenhower's Armies were facing resistance that varied from almost non-existent to fanatical[41] as they advanced toward Berlin, which was located 200km (120mi) from their positions in early April 1945. Civilian deaths of 203,250 which included 1,350 Merchant seaman, 2,800 executed, 2,500 dead in Dutch concentration camps, This page was last edited on 21 December 2022, at 04:17. Egyptian military casualties were 1,125 killed and 1,308 wounded. (2005) The German government issued a report listing total war dead of 7,375,800 (3,100,000 soldiers killed; 1,200,000 soldiers missing; 500,000 civilians killed in bombing raids; 2,251,500 civilian victims of expulsions and deportations; 24,300 Austrian civilians killed and 300,000 victims of Nazi racial, religious or political persecution. The Ustasa also killed most of Croatia's Jews, 20,000 Gypsies, and many thousands of their political enemies. 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: 7,900, 4,500, (12,400) The figures for the pre-war Jewish population and deaths in the table below are from The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. Baranowski, Shelley (2010). Army German casualties based on statistics collected during the war included 27,074 KIA, 18,384 MIA and 111,034 WIA. The deaths of African soldiers conscripted by Italy are not included with the Italian war dead. 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. Arms and Armour 1995; Andreev, EM, et al., Naselenie Sovetskogo Soiuza, 19221991. 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. On the Eastern front, it was just the opposite; 5% of Germans taken prisoner by the Russians survived. The port of Antwerp was liberated on 4 September by the British 11th Armoured Division. ", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. p. 252, Waller Wynne, Population of Czechoslovakia. Among the Allied powers, the U.S.S.R. suffered the greatest total number of dead: perhaps 18,000,000. Updated February 26, 2010", "Tables "Battle casualties by type of casualty and disposition, type of personnel, and theater: 7 December 1941 31 December 1946" through "Battle casualties by type of casualty and disposition, and duty branch: 7 December 1941 31 December 1946", "American Merchant Marine in World War 2", "The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps | Defense Media Network", "NOAA History /NOAA Legacy/NOAA Corps and the Coast and Geodetic Survey", "G.F. Krivosheev. French aircraft losses were 560. 1961 (. p. 30. Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945 Transaction 2007; Michel Pauly: Geschichte Luxemburgs, 2013. Civilian losses due to attacks on merchant shipping were 470 merchant mariners and 502 passengers. The British XXX Corps would punch through the German lines along the MaasSchelde canal and link up with the airborne troops of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Eindhoven, the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. 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. Seventh Army and French First Army) fought a difficult campaign through the Vosges Mountains that was marked by dogged German resistance and slow advances. The Germans had been preparing a massive counter-attack in the West since the Allied breakout from Normandy. The Australian government does not regard. A total of 2,419 American civilian internees were listed as dead and missing. Colonial forces are not included in these figures. Between 5,000 and 10,000 Filipinos serving with the Filipino troops, Scouts, Constabulary and Philippine Army units lost their lives on the, In 2009, Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota of the Polish, In his 2009 book, Andrzej Leon Sowa of the, The official Polish government report on war damages prepared in 1947 listed 6,028,000 war victims during the German occupation (including 123,178 military deaths, 2.8million Poles and 3.2million Jews), out of a population of 27,007,000 ethnic, In August 2009, Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota of the Polish. German sources do not provide figures for Soviet citizens conscripted by Germany. "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. Maksudov, Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War:a note-World War II- Europe Asia Studies, July 1994", "Population dynamics: consequences of regular and irregular changes", "Nazi persecution of Soviet Prisoners of War", "The extent of human losses USSR in the Great Patriotic War and Statistical Lynbrinth (in Russian)", "Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2014-2015, p. 38", "Cyprus Veterans Association World War II", "US Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Casualties in World War II", "Mariners in "ocean-going service" during World War II have Veteran Status. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1996. [34] By the time they prepared to cross the Rhine in late March, the Western Allies had taken 1,300,000 German soldiers prisoner in western Europe. The footnotes give a detailed breakdown of the casualties and their sources, including data on the number of wounded where reliable sources are available. 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. Front, called by the people in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War, saw most of the damage in terms of military casualties, the Western Front, which encompassed Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands . Initial successes in bad weather, which gave them cover from the Allied air forces, resulted in a German penetration of over 80km (50mi) to within less than 16km (10mi) of the Meuse. [392] English language sources put the death toll at 2 to 3million based on the West German government statistical analysis of the 1950s. 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). 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. The U.S. Bureau of the Census published a report in 1954 that concluded that Yugoslav war-related deaths were 1,067,000. Since casualty statistics are sometimes disputed the footnotes to this article present the different estimates by official governmental sources as well as historians. 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]. [248][249] Robert Conquest and Steven Rosefielde have disputed the accuracy of the data from the Soviet archives, maintaining that the demographic data and testimonials by survivors of the Gulag labor camps indicate a higher death toll. Data from this document is listed in, Schimitzek, Stanislaw, Truth or Conjecture? 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. These figures included the losses of Newfoundland and Southern Rhodesia. [89], Military(Norwegian & Allied Forces) 2,000 (800 Army, 900 Navy and 100 Air). In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September. The raid was a disaster, almost two-thirds of the attacking force became casualties. Total U.S. military deaths in battle and from other causes were 407,316. It is said that the Russians could have won the Second World War without any support from the US or Commonwealth forces, above all because of their large quantity of produced T-34 tanks. Albanian official statistics claim somewhat higher losses. Presse- und Informationsamt. Central Pacific: 95,800, 151,400, (247,200) 3133. 5354, Naselenie Rossii v XX Veke: V 3-kh Tomakh: Tom2. The Phoney War was an early phase of World War II marked by a few military operations in Continental Europe in the months following the German invasion of Poland and preceding the Battle of France. "[597] According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum "The Croat authorities murdered between 320,000 and 340,000 ethnic Serb residents of Croatia and Bosnia during the period of Ustaa rule; more than 30,000 Croatian Jews were killed either in Croatia or at Auschwitz-Birkenau". 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. The Japanese government figures for POW deaths are not in agreement with Soviet figures. 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. by Konrad Adenauer. Universe, Inc. (July 13, 2005). The official UK report on war casualties of June 1946 provided a summary of the UK war losses, excluding colonies. Russian historian. The non-belligerent United States contributed to the Western Allies by discounted sales of military equipment and supplies. Really, it is! German efforts to interdict the Allies' trans-Atlantic trade at sea ignited the Battle of the Atlantic. Mexico lost 7 merchant ships and 63 dead merchant mariners. Ostarbeiters and POW in Third Reich and Their Repatriation) (Russian). : -Human Losses of the USSR in the Period of WWII: Collection of Articles. Because of the decline in activity in the two port cities, the constant threat of incendiary raids, and the formal evacuation programs of the Government, an unknown number of the inhabitants had either drifter away from the cities or been removed according to plan. vs. U.K. and Netherlands 208,026 killed and 139,225 wounded. Using this definition, the total number of. The main Allied attack on the western front in 1916. Germany reports. Presse- und Informationsamt. On 6 June 1944, the Allies began Operation Overlord (also known as "D-Day") the long-awaited liberation of France. In 1948 the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) issued a report of war losses. 2004/1, p. 4 (2,000,000), Gesamterhebung zur Klrung des Schicksals der deutschen Bevlkerung in den Vertreibungsgebieten, Mnchen: Zentralstelle des Kirchl. Java: 2,700, 3,800, (6,500) Sakhalin, the Aleutian, and Kuril Islands: 8,200, 3,200, (11,400) Confirmed dead were 159,957 (92,767 pre-armistice, 67,090 post armistice)[445] A. 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). Total casualties were 668,315 including 299,485 dead, 24,010 missing and 344,820 injured. 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. This kill-to-loss ratio destroys another recent myth, which has recently come again into fashion, which refers to the situation on the Eastern Front. Presse-und Informationsamt. They listed 210,000 direct war casualties in the Netherlands, not including the. With an introd. (1998) A German demographic study estimated 5,500,000 to 6,900,000 war dead. [nb 12] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered as separate theatres. The preliminary data for New Zealand losses was killed 10,033, missing 2,129, wounded 19,314 and. The 1949 report of the Japanese government Economic Stabilization Board detailed the casualties caused by air raids and sea bombardment. 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. The most notable of these is the Holocaust in which millions of Jews, Poles, and Romani were systematically murdered or died from abuse and mistreatment. Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt requested permission to withdraw east behind the Rhine, arguing that further resistance would only delay the inevitable, but was ordered by Hitler to fight where his forces stood. Bonn 1989, pp. [599] The Jasenovac Memorial Site quotes a similar figure of between 80,000 and 100,000 victims. (1947) The combined staff of the U.K., Canada and the U.S. prepared "A study of the employment of German manpower from 19331945". Military deaths 6,750 which included 3,900 regular Army, 2,600 Navy forces, and 250 POW in Germany. 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. The war dead totals listed in the report are based on the research by the CWGC to identify and commemorate Commonwealth war dead. On 4 April the encirclement was completed and the Ninth Army reverted to the command of Bradley's 12th Army Group. I believe that it was just as bad for Russians taken prisoners by the Germans on the Eastern front. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth place. Aufl. The commission found that the demographic estimates by the German government of 220,000 to 270,000 civilian deaths due to expulsions from Czechoslovakia were based on faulty data. [603] 3133 (they give figure of 300,000 German deaths due to racial, religious and political persecution including 170,000 Jews.

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