[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. Answer (1 of 5): WW1 total military deaths: between 8 573 054 and 10 824 236. "For Austria the consequences of the Nazi regime and the Second World War were disastrous: During this period 2,700 Austrians had been executed and more than 16,000 citizens murdered in the concentration camps. p. 30 (figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), R. J. Rumell, Statistics of democide Table 3.1. Presse- und Informationsamt. 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. (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. These figures include Austria and foreign nationals of German ancestry in eastern Europe. POW deaths 4,000. : -Human Losses of the USSR in the Period of WWII: Collection of Articles. Dtv, Neuauflage 1992. Bonn 1989, pp. British casualties on the first day totalled 58,000, the worst single day loss of the war. "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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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. [384] 3133 (figure includes 170,000 German Jews). Confirmed dead were 159,957 (92,767 pre-armistice, 67,090 post armistice)[445] In May 1940, the Germans launched the Battle of France. Archivalien und ausgewhlte Erlebnisberichte.. Bonn: Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen. The crossing of the Rhine was achieved at four points: Once the Allies had crossed the Rhine, the British fanned out northeast towards Hamburg crossing the river Elbe and on towards Denmark and the Baltic. Ed. The British used the Egyptian army to guard lines of communication and to clear minefields. Albanian official statistics claim somewhat higher losses. 7879, German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. The names of U.S. (1993). 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". There were only some local, minor skirmishes. German government figures of war losses do not include the increase in natural deaths with war casualties. 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. The distinction between military and civilian casualties caused directly by warfare and collateral damage is not always clear-cut. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. It was estimated that 200,000 soldiers died in World War II in the European theatre. 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. [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. Malaya & Singapore: 8,500, 2,900, (11,400) 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. WWII: Western Front Worksheets . The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale combat operations. Determined stands were made in April by German forces at Heilbronn, Nuremberg, and Munich but were overcome after several days.[when?] With an addition of this estimate of 194445 unrecorded deaths, the final estimation gave in round numbers a half a million German civilians killed by Allied aerial attacks. R. J. Rummel estimates the civilian victims of Japanese democide at 5,964,000. The military's complicity extended not only to the generals and upper leadership but also to the rank and file. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. The attack started on 16 December in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge. 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. Military deaths 6,750 which included 3,900 regular Army, 2,600 Navy forces, and 250 POW in Germany. 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. Routledge. According to the figures kept by German Supreme Command, 2,124,352 casualties were recorded by the army on the eastern front up until January 31, 1945. While the majority of the German army was mustered for the invasion of the Soviet Union, construction began on the Atlantic Wall a series of defensive fortifications along the French coast of the English Channel. Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie (Human Losses in the Great Patriotic War 19411945 A Statistical Investigation). The raid was a disaster, almost two-thirds of the attacking force became casualties. German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. Military casualties include deaths of regular military forces from combat as well as non-combat causes. Military dead were estimated with Soviet forces at 15,000 and 5,000 with German. in Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Before 1991. The Kriegsmarine, nonetheless, suffered very heavy losses during the two months of fighting required to seize all of mainland Norway. [147] [45], This article is about the West European theatre. 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. Although the great powers of Europe had declared war on one another, neither side had yet committed to launching a significant attack, and there was relatively little fighting on the ground. With an introduction 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]. Of this total 120,000 died and 160,000 were injured in the atomic bombings, leaving 213,000 dead and 313,000 injured by conventional bombing. No sure count of even the prepaid populations existed. Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. pp. Moscow 1971, p. 294, Poyer, Lin; Falgout, Suzanne; Carucci, Laurence Marshall. Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945 Transaction 2007; Michel Pauly: Geschichte Luxemburgs, 2013. Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. The Germans had been preparing a massive counter-attack in the West since the Allied breakout from Normandy. These figures are for Germany in 1937 borders, (1956) The West German Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office)estimated total war dead of 5,650,000 = (3,760,000) military; (430,000) civilians killed in bombing raids and the land campaign; (1,260,000) deaths to expulsion from Poland and (200,000) victims of Nazi racial, religious or political persecution. The preliminary data for New Zealand losses was killed 10,033, missing 2,129, wounded 19,314 and. 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. 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. Total missing and POW were 341,765 (283,322 with Axis and 58,443 with Allies), only about 80,000 survived Soviet captivity. Solomon Islands: 63,200, 25,000, (88,200) Combat Dead by Theater of war: EuropeAtlantic 183,588 (Army ground forces 141,088, Army Air Forces 36,461, and Navy/Coast Guard 6,039); AsiaPacific 108,504 (Army ground forces 41,592, Army Air Forces 15,694, Navy/Coast Guard 31,485, Marine Corps 19,733); unidentified theaters 39 (Army). 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. iUniverse, Inc. (July 13, 2005). Germany 25,430 (24,020 post armistice); Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia 49,459 (10,090 post armistice); Dutch Military losses in Asia were 2,500 killed in the 1942. in the Dutch famine of 1944. According to Norwegian government sources the war dead were 10,200. Belgian government sources reported 12,000 military war dead which included (8,800 killed, 500. The following notes summarize German casualties, the details are presented in German casualties in World War II. In November, however, the German front snapped under the pressure, resulting in sudden Allied advances that liberated Belfort, Mulhouse, and Strasbourg, and placed Allied forces along the Rhine River. The hardest hit localities were Podgorica, Leskovac, Zadar and Belgrade. Following two months of slow fighting in hedgerow country, Operation Cobra allowed the Americans to break out at the western end of the lodgement. The estimated breakdown for each Soviet republic of total war dead[10]^AY4. In addition, the war and genocidal policy were inextricably linked. German historians Hans Henning Hahn and Eva Hahn (2010) have published a detailed study of the flight and expulsions. China after Pearl Harbor 202,958 killed and 88,920 wounded. [265] However some western scholars estimate the total at between 1.7 and 2.3million.[266]. [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]. Egyptian military casualties were 1,125 killed and 1,308 wounded. Fighting on the Western front seemed to stabilize, and the Allied advance stalled in front of the Siegfried Line (Westwall) and the southern reaches of the Rhine. p. 30(500,000 civilians in Japan and 300,000 overseas, figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). Mai 1974. Fighting began with Operation Weserbung, the German invasion of Denmark and Norway, in April, 1940. Germans played for time in Reims. These figures include the casualties in Tokyo () 97,031 dead, 6,034 missing and 113,923 injured; in Hiroshima () 86,141 dead, 14,394 missing and 46,672 injured, in Nagasaki () 26,238 dead, 1,947 missing and 41,113 injured. There were additional casualties in 193940, which totaled 136,945: There were 4,500 military deaths with the all Spanish. 21st Army Group was then instead ordered to move northeast toward Bremen and Hamburg. Sources for total Chinese war dead are divergent and range from 10 to 20million as detailed below. 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. A. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September. Russian historian. I. C. B. Dear and M. R. D. Foot Oxford Companion to World WarII Oxford, 2005; Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960 Bonn 1961 p.78 (available online at. The chance of an amphibious landing necessitated the substantial dispersal of the German mobile reserves, which contained the majority of their panzer troops. western front ww2 casualties. French Indochina 2,803 killed and 6,000 wounded. According to a report compiled by the Relief Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare in March 1964, combined Japanese Army and Navy deaths during the war (193745) numbered approximately 2,121,000; broken down as follows: In 1949 the report of the Japanese government Economic Stabilization Board put military war dead from December 1941 to December 21, 1946, at 1,555,308 Killed and 309,402 wounded. Military deaths included: 108 dead in the. [89], Military(Norwegian & Allied Forces) 2,000 (800 Army, 900 Navy and 100 Air). 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. 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). According to Erlikman, in addition to the war dead, there were 1,700,000 deaths due to Soviet repression (200,000 executed; 4,500,000 sent to prisons and Gulag of whom 1,200,000 died; 2,200,000 deported of whom 300,000 died). [12] The authors of the Oxford Companion to World War II maintain that "casualty statistics are notoriously unreliable". 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]. Burma (inc. India): 163,000, 1,500, (164,500) Included in the figures of total war dead for each nation are victims of the Holocaust. pedagog. & Jap. 2-These statistics include casualties of the volunteer forces from the Soviet Union. 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". Unlike other parts of South East Asia, Thailand did not suffer from famine during the war. The World War II Databook, by John Ellis, 1993 p. 256. 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. Lesser Sundas: 51,800, 1,200, (53,000) [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). This page was last edited on 21 December 2022, at 04:17. On 6 June 1944, the Allies began Operation Overlord (also known as "D-Day") the long-awaited liberation of France. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the other victims persecuted and killed by the Nazis. The main Allied attack on the western front in 1916. Royal Navy (50,758); British Army (144,079); Royal Air Force (69,606). Aufl., 1. They maintain that figures related to flight and expulsion have been manipulated by the German government due to political pressure. 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. Sumatra: 2,700, 500, (3,200) After the reoccupation by the USSR, 5,000 Estonians died in Soviet prisons during 194445. With a large number of men captured, the stubborn German resistance during the Allied campaign to reach the Rhine in February and March 1945 had been costly. Population Changes in Europe Since 1939, Geneva 1951.p.44-45. Millions also died as a result of other German actions. By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. An earlier estimate made in 1987 by Franciszek Proch of the Polish Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi and Soviet Concentration Camps estimated the total dead due to the Soviet occupation at 1,050,000. 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. I test every recipe I post. 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. 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With an introd. Wars and Population. [147] One of the worst one-day massacres during the German military occupation of Serbia was the Kragujevac massacre. Soon after, the Allies were racing across France. The following notes summarize German expulsion casualties, the details are presented in the flight and expulsion of Germans (19441950), the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union' and the Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans. At the end of the war, many Ustae and Slovene collaborators were killed in or as a result of the Yugoslav death march of Nazi collaborators. 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. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21-25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. [169] Erlikman, a Russian historian, notes that these figures are his estimates. 4-The figures for Army wounded add up to 4,219,211. 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. Tokyo, July 1948. p.20, Japan Statistical Year-Book, 1949 [etc.]. It also includes foreign volunteers who died during their service in Finland and Finnish SS-men who died while serving in the German army. Sailors 300,386 killed and 12,275 wounded and missing. USSR 82,079 (3,522 post armistice); Africa 22,341 (1,565 post armistice), at sea 28,438 (5,526 post armistice); p. 273; Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito, Ishikida, Miki (2005). 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. Civilian deaths were caused by Allied bombing and shellfire and Japanese atrocities. [415][416][417][418][419][420][421][422], Military war dead 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. 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. 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