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The Soviet demographer Boris Urlanis estimated that included in total German military deaths are 1,796,000 killed and died of wounds. [114] The UK War Office listed official German figures from 1919 of 720 German civilians who were killed by allied air raids. [157] The figures for civilian deaths due to the Blockade of Germany are disputed. The ...
German casualties at the Somme, 1916. In February 1916, the Germans attacked French defensive positions at the Battle of Verdun, lasting until December 1916. Casualties were greater for the French, but the Germans bled heavily as well, with anywhere from 700,000 [89] to 975,000 [90] casualties between the two combatants. Verdun became a symbol ...
German casualties took a sudden jump with the defeat of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad in January 1943, when 180,310 soldiers were killed in one month. Among the 5.3 million Wehrmacht casualties during the Second World War, more than 80 per cent died during the last two years of the war.
Since the end of the Cold War, the Volksbund has access to Eastern Europe, where most World War II German casualties occurred. [2] Since 1991, 188 World War I cemeteries and 330 World War II cemeteries in eastern, central and south-eastern Europe have been reconstructed or rebuilt and about 764,524 bodies have been buried in new graves.
German military personnel killed in World War I (197 P) Pages in category "German casualties of World War I" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Burchardt, Lothar. "The Impact of the War Economy on the Civilian Population of Germany during the First and the Second World Wars," in The German Military in the Age of Total War, edited by Wilhelm Deist, 40–70. Leamington Spa: Berg, 1985. Chickering, Roger. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918 (1998), wide-ranging survey
The number of casualties is simply the number of members of a unit who are not available for duty. For example, on March 21, 1918, during the opening day of the German spring offensive , the Germans casualties are broken down into 10,851 killed, 28,778 wounded, 300 POW or taken prisoner for a total of 39,929 casualties. [ 2 ]
The 'Age of Totalitarianism' included nearly all the infamous examples of genocide in modern history, headed by the Jewish Holocaust, but also comprising the mass murders and purges of the Communist world, other mass killings carried out by Nazi Germany and its allies, and also the Armenian Genocide of 1915.