The German economist Bruno Gleitze from the German Institute for Economic Research estimated that there were 1,200,000 deaths caused by an increase in mortality due to harsh conditions in Germany during and after the war. They maintain that the official statistics include those persons who were missing and presumed dead, but actually remained abroad in the west and the USSR after the war. The official Russian figure for total POW held by the Germans is 4,059,000; the number of Soviet, Conscripted reservists is an estimate of men called up, primarily in 1941, who were killed in battle or died as. [274] Please create an employee account to be able to mark statistics as favorites. In January 1946 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. put German military dead at 3,250,000, this figure still appears in many reference works. Holocaust Encyclopedia. [305], Sources for total Filipino civilian war dead range from 500,000 to 1,000,000 as detailed below. [333], Victims of Japanese war crimes including the Japanese Occupation of Singapore and the Sook Ching massacre. Casualties.
In addition to the many casualties, World War II also had a major impact on the involvement of states. The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! [167] The details of U.S. casualties are listed online: the US Army,[144] the U.S. Army Air Force,[370] the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps,[371] the U.S. Over 16 million Americans served in the armed forces during World War II. Estimates of the death toll of non-Jewish victims vary by millions, partly because the boundary between death by persecution and death by starvation and other means in a context of total war is unclear. Research in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused a revision of estimates of Soviet war dead. [150] A 1995 study by the Russian Academy of Science lists the deaths of 474,967 of the 2,652,672 German Armed Forces POW taken in the War. The number of deaths in the Gulag labor camps increased as a result of wartime overcrowding and food shortages. Mikhalev believed that the official figure of 26.6 million war dead should not be regarded as definitive. [164], This territory includes areas now known as the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Our nation must be united in its diversity. Annual Report, Navy and Marine Corps Military Personnel Statistics, 30 June 1964. http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/wars.asp, "Mariners in "ocean-going service" during World War II have Veteran Status. Back in the days before soldiers sprayed bullets about the field of battle promiscuously (i.e. Become a Saturday Evening Post member and enjoy unlimited access. Total military dead: from 22 to 25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. [60], Sources for total IndoChinese civilian war dead range from 1 to 1.5 million as detailed below. Gurkha casualties with the British Indian Army can be broken down as: 8,985 killed or missing and 23,655 wounded. In 2000, the late S. N. Mikhalev of the History department of Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University[342] published a critical analysis of the official Russian wartime casualty statistics, he estimated actual Soviet military war dead at more than 10.9 million persons. German losses, of which the greater proportion occurred on the Eastern Front, were only slightly less severe. Includes civilian losses due to war (220,000) and Soviet occupation in 194041 (7,000). Defining a casualty as any Killed, Missing, or Wounded in action. A 1958 West German government demographic study estimated 2,225,000 civilians died during the flight during the war, post war expulsions and the forced labor in the Soviet Union, broken out as follows: Poland 1,607,000; Czechoslovakia 273,000; Yugoslavia 136,000; Romania 101,000; Hungary 57,000; Baltic States 51,000. [55], Civilian deaths were caused by Allied bombing and shellfire and Japanese atrocities. [25] In 1956 The German government estimated 5.5 million of deaths directly caused by the war in 1937 borders. Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian death toll due to the Bengal famine of 1943 at 2,000,000. From 2014-2018 the YouTube channel covered the events of World War 1 week by week. Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject. There were an additional 3,900 Danish deaths in German military service that are included with German losses. Red Army 34.4 Mil mobilized vs. 10.7 mil KIA 14.9mil WIA 5.75mil POW, UK (including the Commonwealth) 11mil mob 580k KIA 475k WIA 318k POW, USA 16Mil mob vs. 416k KIA 683k WIA 130k POW, So if we look statically, the most dangerous army to serve in would be the USSR with almost 75% of all mobilized forces become a casualty at some point. At the moment, we are covering the events in the aftermath of WW1 which wasn't the war to end all wars as people had hoped. [94], Losses during allied occupation in 1941. Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian death toll due to the war and Japanese occupation at 1,500,000. Iran The United States Army Air Forces losses, which are included in the Army total, were 52,173 deaths due to combat and 35,946 from non-combat causes. For the purposes of C.W.G.C. Holocaust Encyclopedia "Mosaic of Victims: Overview"", http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005149, "Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida, A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust", http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/people/victims.htm, "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Your support helps us preserve a great American legacy. Youre very proud of your unit. Eastern Romania Sources for total Indian civilian war dead range from 1.5 to 2.5 million as detailed below. What country are you from? [94], Total Polish war dead Soviet Studies Vol 44. Hungary According to the nationals museum the figure is slightly different: from 8 million and 800 thousand for the military and The higher estimate of 1,000,000 includes additional post war deaths of persons injured in the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and excess deaths due to adverse post war conditions. The IPN's figures include 2.7 to 2.9 million Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust as well as 2,770,000 ethnic Poles, other ethnic minorities are not included in these figures. [211] The pro-German Vichy France forces lost 2,653 killed. "It tends to be the secret we have that we're not proud of. Depending on your unit, you might also carry a cargo pack that holds a two-man tent, tent pins, and blanket. [260] To show the impact that World War II had on the individual nations I have also made this tree map. Most of the work of breaking through enemy defenses is done by the artillery. Georgia was not occupied during the war, the civilian casualties of 110,000 were due to wartime shortages that caused famine and disease. Interesting, my dad was from Tarboro, NC, and was 18 or 19. Diversity is not divisive.
Warsaw 1966, Poyer, Lin; Falgout, Suzanne; Carucci, Laurence Marshall. Forces and resources of the European combatants, 1939, The Baltic states and the Russo-Finnish War, 193940, The war in the west, September 1939June 1940, The invasion of the Low Countries and France, Italys entry into the war and the French Armistice, The Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 194041, Pearl Harbor and the Japanese expansion, to July 1942, Developments from autumn 1941 to spring 1942, Allied strategy and controversies, 194042, The Germans summer offensive in southern Russia, 1942, The Solomons, Papua, Madagascar, the Aleutians, and Burma, July 1942May 1943, Montgomerys Battle of el-Alamein and Rommels retreat, 194243, Stalingrad and the German retreat, summer 1942February 1943, The invasion of northwest Africa, NovemberDecember 1942, The Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the North Sea, 194245, The Eastern Front, FebruarySeptember 1943, The Southwest and South Pacific, JuneOctober 1943, The Allied landings in Europe and the defeat of the Axis powers, Developments from autumn 1943 to summer 1944, Sicily and the fall of Mussolini, JulyAugust 1943, The Allies invasion of Italy and the Italian volte-face, 1943, The western Allies and Stalin: Cairo and Tehrn, 1943, The Eastern Front, October 1943April 1944, The war in the Pacific, October 1943August 1944, The Burmese frontier and China, November 1943summer 1944, Developments from summer 1944 to autumn 1945, The Allied invasions of western Europe, JuneNovember 1944, Allied policy and strategy: Octagon (Quebec II) and Moscow, 1944, The Philippines and Borneo, from September 1944, The German offensive in the west, winter 194445, The Soviet advance to the Oder, JanuaryFebruary 1945, The end of the Japanese war, FebruarySeptember 1945. An academic study published in the United States estimates total war deaths of 1520 million from all causes: military casualties: 1.5 million killed in battle, 750,000 missing in action, 1.5 million deaths due to disease and 3 million wounded; civilian casualties: due to military activity, killed 1,073,496 and 237,319 wounded; 335,934 killed and 426,249 wounded in Japanese air attacks. [60] Timothy Snyder put the victims of the Nazis killed only as result of deliberate policies of mass murder such as executions, deliberate famine and in death camps at 10.4 million persons including 5.4 million Jews. Included in the losses are 64,000 victims of Nazi reprisals and genocide including 30,000 POWs and 8,500 Jews. Military deaths during World War II for the Allied and the Axis Powers by alliance, theater, year. Bureau odszkodowan wojennych, Statement on war losses and damages of Poland in 19391945. [203] However, R. J. Rummel estimates 200,000 Ethiopians and Libyans killed by the Italians from the 1920s41, his estimate is "based on Discovery TV Cable Channel Program 'Timewatch'" 1/17/92.[204]. During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the Armed Forces and 708 were killed in combat. You also admire the guys in your unit who show guts and disregard their personal safety. Tallinn 2005. The U.S. Bureau of the Census noted that the official Yugoslav government figure of 1.7 million war dead was overstated because it "was released soon after the war and was estimated without the benefit of a postwar census". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [140][365], Total U. S. military deaths in battle and from other causes were 416,837, the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. [309], Officially neutral, East Timor was occupied by Japan during 194245. [117] [377] [255] Jewish Holocaust victims totaled 80,000. Soldiers kill. If you have any questions, dont hesitate to write to me! [179] Regarding partisan and civilian casualties the Russian journalist Vadim Erlikman notes "According to the official data of the royal government 2,320 were killed and 199 executed. 
[382] Bogoljub Koovi a Yugoslav statistician,calculated that the actual war losses were 1,014,000. 3568. C. Deliberate acts of reprisal against target populations were perpetrated by all combatants. Army Pvt. The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. [290], Gurkhas recruited from Nepal fought with the British Indian Army and Nepalese Army during the Second World War. Are you interested in testing our business solutions? Population includes about 3.3 million ethnic Germans, however the casualties of the ethnic Germans are included with Germany. [55], Tams Stark of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has provided the following assessment of Hungarian losses. Non-Jews persecuted and killed by the Nazis, territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union, PolishSoviet border agreement of August 1945, deaths during the Soviet occupation in 194041, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, deaths of those forcibly deported during the war, Michael Ellman and S. Maksudov, Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War: a note World War II , Michael Ellman and S. Maksudov, Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War:a note World War II . has reported that, In total, an estimated one million Filipinos lost their lives in the war. Civilian losses of 250,000 include: 60,000 killed in bombardments, 60,000 in land fighting, 30,000 murdered in executions, 60,000 political deportees, and 40,000 workers in Germany . Operation New Dawn: 74 (2010-2011, primarily in Iraq) The 700 deaths with German Armed Forces are included with Germany on this schedule.
of the Army, Army Battle Casualties and Non Battle Deaths in World War II", http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/p4013coll8&CISOPTR=130&REC=2, "''Deaths as a result of service with Australian units''(AWM) web page", http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/war_casualties.asp, http://ngb.chebucto.org/NFREG/index_wwii.shtml, http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1931cost_e.shtml, http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem, http://www.milhist.dk/besattelsen/ww2stat/ww2stat.html, "Estonian State Commission on Examination of Policies of Repression. [235] The Schieder commission estimated a civilian death toll in the expulsions of about 2.3 million persons, broken out as follows: Poland 2,000,000; Czechoslovakia 225,600; Yugoslavia 69,000; Romania 20,000; Hungary 6,000. Data from this document is listed in, Schimitzek, Stanislaw, Truth or Conjecture? The M-4 Sherman was the workhorse medium tank of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps during World War II. Tallinn 2005. US Department of Defense, and American Battlefield Trust. 19401991''. Bernard & Grafe 1982 Managed to make all the way to Holland without getting wounded until the waal river crossing. [60] Russian sources list the deaths of 28,000 of the 49,000 Italian war prisoners in Soviet Union 1942-1954. Hubert, Michael, Deutschland im Wandel. [268] Military losses in Italy after the September 1943 Armistice with Italy, included 5,927 with the Allies, 17,488 Italian resistance movement fighters and 13,000 RSI Italian Social Republic Fascist forces. In the video below you can see the number of victims during the Second World War in ascending order. It goes with the job, and they do it on our behalf. Combat experience has increased your faith in God and made you more religious. [341] [309] We want to fight bravely, but it's hard to be proud of killing another person.". Military dead 35,077, including: 13,327 killed in the Greco-Italian War of 194041; 1,100 with the Greek Forces in the Mid-East, and 20,650 partisan deaths.
[352] R. J. Rummel estimates the deaths of 20,000 anti-Fascist Spanish refugees resident in France who were deported to Nazi camps, these deaths are included with French civilian casualties. In fact, the former USSR had about 25 million total casualties. 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Experiences vary. [254] Civilian losses of 64,000 included 20,000 during Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Bukovina in 194041;[329] the genocide of Roma people 36,000 deaths;[196] Allied air raids on Romania caused the deaths of 7,693 civilians. [192] The details are as follows: No reliable statistics on Albania's wartime losses exist, but the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration reported about 30,000 Albanian war dead. Thanks to the data of the National WW2 museums is in fact possible to know the data on total victims and military casualties. "Killing in combat for a psychologically normal individual is bearable only if he or she is able to distance themselves from their own actions. Statistics for German World War II military casualties are divergent. Command and General Staff College (1953)", http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/p4013coll8&CISOPTR=130&REC=1, "of the Adjutant General, ''U.S. The names of 67,080 are commemorated in the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour. [265] The research by Overmans concluded that German military dead and missing were 5,318,000. (, The Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960, Page 78, Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960, Page 78. The Polish demographer Piotr Eberhardt maintains that it is commonly agreed that the criterion of declared language given in the 1931 census led to an overestimation of the number of Poles in pre-war Poland. [315] [282] A table that details estimated deaths by country is available here. Ramadan and Passover raise tensions at Jerusalem holy site, You aimed at my eyes but my heart still beats, Taiwan's Tsai meets US House Speaker McCarthy, Super Mario: Jack Black on rise of game adaptations, Inside the life coaching cult that takes over lives. Albanian official statistics claim somewhat higher losses. The total war dead in the USSR includes victims of Soviet repression. According to John W. Dower, the "known deaths of Japanese troops awaiting repatriation in Allied (non-Soviet) hands were listed as 81,090 by U.S. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. My dad was one of the GIs. John W. Dower estimated 1.0 million deaths due to Vietnamese Famine of 1945 during Japanese occupation. In 2006 The German government reaffirmed its belief that 2 million civilians perished in the flight and expulsion from Eastern Europe. As Paul Waldman of the American Prospect noted in his 2014 article: "The number of Americans who were in uniform peaked during the national mobilizations of World War I and World War II, particularly the latter, when more than 16 million Americans were in the armed forces. "Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies), 19391945"", http://www.ushmm.org/education/resource/roma/roma.php?menu=/export/home/www/doc_root/education/foreducators/include/menu.txt&bgcolor=CD9544, "Romanies and the Holocaust: A Reevaluation and an Overview", Jewish Responses to the Porajmos -The Romani Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They are together at Arlington, so proud of my parents, God bless them!!! The BBC has provided background on the Colonial contributions to the British Empire war effort. In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) put the figure of Poland's dead at between 5,620,000 and 5,820,000; including an estimated 150,000 Polish citizens who died due to Soviet repression.
[264] A brief summary of data from this report can be found online. [300], The military deaths listed here are those reported by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Total deaths were 11,929. Archivalien und ausgewhlte Erlebnisberichte. [335] Russian demographers E.M. Andreev, L.E. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates homosexuals and Soviet prisoners of war. [55], During the Occupation of Denmark military war dead included 1,281Merchant Marine, 797 resistance fighters and 39 Army personnel. The genocide of Roma people was 35,000 persons. Operation Enduring Freedom: 2,353 (2001-2014, primarily in Afghanistan) Civilian losses in territories annexed by USSR are also included in totals of the Baltic states (650,000),[344] Poland (2,000,000),[111][311] Romania (300,000), and Czechoslovakia (50,000). The Japanese list the losses of 199,000 in Manchurian transit camps, 36,000 in North Korea, 9,000 from Sakhalin and 103,000 in the USSR. "[281] Manhattan Project The preliminary 1945 data for colonial forces was killed 6,877, missing 14,208, wounded 6,972 and POW 8,115. H. In his 2000 study of German military casualties Rdiger Overmans found 344,000 additional military deaths of Germans from the former eastern territories of Germany and conscripted ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. Altogether, it is the same 64 extra pounds you carry in the field plus your ten-pound, .30 caliber, semiautomatic Garand rifle. John W. Dower reports civilian losses due to U.S. strategic bombing according to official Japanese figures were 393,367 dead, including 210,000 killed in the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and 97,031 in the Bombing of Tokyo in World War II. PoWs and WiA were probably not counted fully. The Netherlands War Graves Foundation maintains a registry of the names of Dutch war dead. [176], Military deaths included: 108 dead in the FrenchThai War (194041)[358] and 5,559 who died either resisting the Japanese invasion (1941), or fighting alongside Japanese forces in the Burma Campaign of 194245. Facebook: quarterly number of MAU (monthly active users) worldwide 2008-2022, Quarterly smartphone market share worldwide by vendor 2009-2022, Number of apps available in leading app stores Q3 2022, Profit from additional features with an Employee Account. Micronesian war related civilian deaths were caused by American bombing and shellfire; and malnutrition caused by the U.S. blockade of the islands. This page has a breakdown of Mobilized vs. The study found that the statistics compiled by German military during the war were incomplete and did not provide an accurate accounting of casualties. [94], German population [220] These losses included about 4.4 million military dead and missing; 1.0 million civilian deaths during the war and 1.5 civilians who died as a result of expulsions from Poland and the famine in Germany during 194546. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Narben bleiben die Arbeit der Suchdienste 60 Jahre nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg Berlin Dienststelle 2005 (Published by the Search Service of the German Red Cross. [345][346][347] In 1995 the Russian Academy of Science published a report that summarized Soviet losses in the war.
[250] In Allied-occupied Germany the shortage of food was an acute problem in 194647. He turned 21 at the start of the Battle of the bulge. The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) figure for deaths of ethnic Poles. [227] [228] Military losses in Asia were 900 in the 1942 Dutch East Indies campaign and 8,500 military POW deaths in Japanese captivity. Most It fought in every theater of operationNorth Africa, the Pacific and Europe. [385] Prisoners of War and Civilian American Citizens Captured and Interned by Japan in World War II: The Issue of Compensation by Japan Updated December 17, 2002, U.S. National Archives Casualties from World War II, "U.S. We train people to kill. According to the educated guess of military researcher John Pike, the director of GlobalSecurity.org, U.S. forces have expended at least 250,000 small-caliber bullets for every insurgent killed in the present wars. 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