Martin Gilbert estimates 5.7million (78%) of the 7.3million Jews in German-occupied Europe were Holocaust victims. 5-Figures of missing include POWs held by Allies. It also includes foreign volunteers who died during their service in Finland and Finnish SS-men who died while serving in the German army. ed. The crossing of the Moselle River and the capture of the fortress of Metz proved difficult for the American troops in the face of German reinforcements, supply shortages, and unfavorable weather. Germany reports. Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961, pp. Gruhl estimates POW deaths in Japanese captivity at 331,584. The number of deaths in the Gulag labor camps increased as a result of wartime overcrowding and food shortages. iUniverse, Inc. (July 13, 2005). Their advance only slowed down as they encountered regrouped and entrenched German troops in the Vosges Mountains. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. The result was the near-destruction of the British 1st Airborne Division during the Battle of Arnhem, which sustained almost 8,000 casualties. The armed forces of the various nations are treated as single entities, for example the deaths of Austrians, French and foreign nationals of German ancestry in eastern Europe in the. which are attributed to an increase in natural deaths from 1940 to 1945 and 1,650 foreign nationals killed while serving in the XIX Corps of the Ninth Army captured Magdeburg on 18 April and the US XIII Corps to the north occupied Stendal. Bilanz der Forschung unter besonderer Bercksichtigung der Wehrmacht- und Vertreibungsverluste, in: Der Zweite Weltkrieg. Andreev EM; Darsky LE; Kharkova TL, Population dynamics: consequences of regular and irregular changes. "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. Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. [603] [244] The Soviet-era archive figures on the Gulag labor camps has been the subject of a vigorous academic debate outside Russia since their publication in 1991. Some parishes continued burying in the Second World War military cemeteries up to the 1980s. The port of Antwerp was liberated on 4 September by the British 11th Armoured Division. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September. "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). 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. 2-These statistics include casualties of the volunteer forces from the Soviet Union. China (inc. Hong Kong): 435,600, 20,100, (455,700) French Indochina: 7,900, 4,500, (12,400) If all went well XXX Corps would advance into Germany without any remaining major obstacles. Vertreibungsgebieten stlich von Oder und Neie. [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. 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. 360,000 dead or wounded, and 1,900,000 captured. Answer (1 of 5): WW1 total military deaths: between 8 573 054 and 10 824 236. 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"Gunfire" includes tanks of course, but also includes AT Guns, StuGs, other SPGs, and artillery pieces. Stalin began purging the Red Army of its professional and skilled soldiers. [247] The Russian scholar Viktor Zemskov puts the death toll from 1941 to 1945 at about 1million based on data from the Soviet archives. After the reoccupation by the USSR, 5,000 Estonians died in Soviet prisons during 194445. Mai 1974. Thailand: 6,900, 100, (7,000) Of these, approximately 330,000 were fatalities. Figure does not include the Nazi euthanasia program, German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. 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. Army GroupB had the 2nd Panzer Division in northern France, 116th Panzer Division in the Paris area, and the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy. (German Federal Statistical Office), Germany reports. Small and Singer put the military losses at 5,000. ): Legenden, Lgen, Vorurteile. Belgian casualties are placed at 7,500 killed or missing, 15,850 wounded, and 200,000 captured. 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. 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. (International Population Statistics Reports series P-90, No. Manchuria: 45,900, 800, (46,700) 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. They maintain that figures related to flight and expulsion have been manipulated by the German government due to political pressure. About 298,000 Americans died. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale combat operations. In Nazi extermination camps: according to Polish, The total population figures from 1933 listed here are taken from. Veritable and Grenade were planned to start on 8 February 1945, but Grenade was delayed by two weeks when the Germans flooded the Roer valley by destroying the gates of the Rur Dam upstream. Unlike other parts of South East Asia, Thailand did not suffer from famine during the war. The British, Canadians, French, and other allies in the west lost slightly over 60,000 dead". 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". These figures vary because of the shift of borders between 1937 and 1940. Both the Allies and Japanese also conscripted civilians to work as laborers and porters. Merchant Navy (530); British Home Guard (0) and Civilians (0). Demographic Research, Vol. 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. Since casualty statistics are sometimes disputed the footnotes to this article present the different estimates by official governmental sources as well as historians. 13, No. Of the country's total casualties, about 2.1 million were military personnel while 500,000-800,000 were civilians. 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. Hungarian Jewish losses of 569,000 presented here include the territories annexed in 193941. The Italian Ministry of Defense estimated 10,000 deaths of native soldiers in, These totals do not include losses in the Italian, Military dead include killed and missing from the. 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded. ; Kharkova, T.L. Not Included in the figure of 210,000 war dead are 70,000 "indirect war casualties", (1950) The West German government made a preliminary estimate of 3.0million civilian deaths in the expulsions. Civilian losses included 160,000 Jewish Holocaust dead, As Ruanda [Rwanda] was not occupied nor its food supply cut off, these deaths are not usually included with World War II casualties. Dutch Merchant Marine. (1960) The West German government issued figures of the war losses. According to the College of Education of the University of South Florida "Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy". No sure count of even the prepaid populations existed. ), The British colony of Malaya consisted of the. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. [147] Total German casualties between September 1939 to 31 December 1944, on the Western Front for both the army, Waffen SS, and foreign volunteers amounts to 128,030 killed, 399,860 wounded. The Japanese government figures for POW deaths are not in agreement with Soviet figures. With an introd. The Red Ball Express, the Allied trucking effort, was simply unable to transport enough supplies from the port facilities in Normandy all the way to the front line, which by September, was close to the German border. 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). Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. MacArthur in Japan: The Occupation: Military Phase, Volume I Supplement U.S. Government printing Office 1966, p. 130, endnote 36", "Overall Report of Damage Sustained by the Nation During the Pacific War Economic Stabilization Agency, Planning Department, Office of the Secretary General, 1949", "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Subsequent Weapons Testing". Military dead were estimated with Soviet forces at 10,000 and 15,000 with German. Wounded: UK and Crown Colonies (284,049); India-(British colonial administration) (64,354), Australia (39,803); Canada (53,174); New Zealand (19,314); South Africa (14,363). Percy Schramm Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht: 1940 1945: 8 Bde. 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). On 4 April the encirclement was completed and the Ninth Army reverted to the command of Bradley's 12th Army Group. Ingo Haar, "Hochgerechnetes Unglck, Die Zahl der deutschen Opfer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird bertrieben", Sddeutsche Zeitung, November 14, 2006. Ho Ping-ti. [nb 13]. In addition 2,000 Danish volunteers were killed serving in the German military. 2, 2003, 300309 (26.6million), Lennart Lundberg Handelsflottan under andra vrldskriget p.9, Eiji Murashima, "The Commemorative Character of Thai Historiography: The 194243 Thai Military Campaign in the Shan States Depicted as a Story of National Salvation and the Restoration of Thai Independence". Dutch casualties are placed at 2,890 killed or missing, 6,900 wounded, with no information provided on those captured. The next month, the Germans launched the Battle of France . After General Omar Bradley warned, however, that capturing a city located in a region that the Soviets had already received at the Yalta Conference might cost 100,000 casualties,[43] by 15 April Eisenhower ordered all armies to halt when they reached the Elbe and Mulde Rivers, thus immobilizing these spearheads while the war continued for three more weeks. Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. 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. Ministero della Difesa Edizioni 1986 (in Italian). (1.5million in prewar 1937 Germany, (1958) A West German government demographic study estimated 2,225,000 civilians died during the flight during the war, post war expulsions and the, (1965), The search service of the German churches and Red Cross was able to confirm 473,013 civilian deaths in eastern Europe due to the expulsions, broken out as follows: 367,392 Poland (in post war borders); 18,889, (1966) The West German Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims issued a statement that put the number of expulsion dead at 2,111,000 (1,225,000 Germany in 1937 borders, (1985) A demographic analysis which has the support of the German government, estimated 2,020,000 civilians died during the post war expulsions and the, The German government currently maintains that 2.0million civilians perished in the flight and expulsion from Eastern Europe. The additions were the annexation of the, Estimates in the west for the population transfers differ. [242][243], The total war dead in the USSR includes about 1million[244] victims of Stalin's regime. Research in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused a revision of estimates of Soviet World War II fatalities. 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. In May 1940, the Germans launched the Battle of France. The deception plans, Operation Fortitude and Operation Bodyguard, had the Germans convinced that the invasion would occur in the Pas-de-Calais, while the real target was Normandy. [1] Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 5056million, with an additional estimated 1928million deaths from war-related disease and famine. Celebes: 1,500, 4,000, (5,500) World War 2 was the bloodiest conflict in human history. , , ed. After years of war, the United Kingdom and France were exhausted. 14,072 dead while POWs), Wirtschaft und Statistik November 1949 pp. Military deaths included: 108 dead in the. pedagog. 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. 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. The Italian front is considered a separate but related theater. World War I Killed, wounded, and missing The casualties suffered by the participants in World War I dwarfed those of previous wars: some 8,500,000 soldiers died as a result of wounds and/or disease. Some auxiliary and civilian organizations are also accorded war grave status if death occurred under certain specified conditions. people on Earth in 1940. The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. 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. Soviet sources list the deaths of 474,967 of the 2,652,672 German Armed Forces, Estimated total Soviet military war dead in 194145 on the. other and unknown 6,844 (3,695 post armistice). 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. D. The systematic extermination of large numbers of people for political, religious or racial reasons. Merchant Navy (30,248); British Home Guard (1,206) and Civilians (60,595). 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. Hellmuth Auerbach: Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft. 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. Universe, Inc. (July 13, 2005). It was estimated that 200,000 soldiers died in World War II in the European theatre. On 19 August 1942, the Allies began the Dieppe Raid, an attack on Dieppe, France. Civilian war dead were approximately 2,100, French military war of 210,000 dead include 150,000 regular forces (193940. 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. Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. 3- The section The Effect of Bombing on Health and Medical Care in Germany of January 1947 made a preliminary calculated estimate of air raid dead at 422,000. Germany (West). 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. Bismarck Archipelago: 19,700, 10,800, (30,500) Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths and wounded caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject. Original emissaries had no authority to surrender to any of the Allies. Formosa (Taiwan): 28,500, 10,600, (39,100) Following two months of slow fighting in hedgerow country, Operation Cobra allowed the Americans to break out at the western end of the lodgement. 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. The Australian government does not regard. For almost two years, there was no land-fighting on the Western Front with the exception of commando raids and the guerrilla actions of the resistance aided by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Manchuria & USSR 7,483 killed and 4,641 wounded. The local, According to an official U.S. report during the. Moscow Page 294. 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. 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. While most of the German Army was fighting against Poland, a much smaller German force manned the Siegfried Line, their fortified defensive line along the French border. [447] Toward Peace: War Responsibility, Postwar Compensation, and Peace Movements and Education in Japan. 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 (. Poland lost a total of 139,800 regular soldiers and 100,000. (This paper was a presentation at an academic conference in Warsaw Poland in 1994), Dzieje Najnowsze Rocznik XXI-1994, Pistohlkors, Gert. During September and October, the Allied 6th Army Group (U.S. Niewyk, Donald L. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2000; Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960 Bonn 1961 p. 78, Bundesarchiv Euthanasie" im Nationalsozialismus, bundesarchiv.de; accessed 5 March 2016.(German). The Western Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Western Germany. Total Bulgarian military war dead were 18,500 including 6,671 battle deaths. The preliminary data for New Zealand losses was killed 10,033, missing 2,129, wounded 19,314 and. Some 40,000 Roma were murdered. 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. Ingo Haar, "Straty zwiazane z wypedzeniami: stan bada, problemy, perspektywy", Die Flucht der deutschen Bevlkerung 1944/45, "Does Germany owe Greece wartime reparations money? 3133 (they give figure of 300,000 German deaths due to racial, religious and political persecution including 170,000 Jews. 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