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World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000. [26] 10,124 Bulgarian [26] and 21,035 Romanian deaths [27] were documented with the Allies. 1,036 Finns died in the Lapland War [28] and 8,000 Czech partisans were killed in the Prague Uprising. [24] The Allied casualties at the Eastern Front total at 8,900,000 deaths.
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 19] during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945.The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union) fought the Axis powers (including Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) on both sides of the continent in the Western and Eastern fronts.
World War II: 2,303 Battle of Cape Bon: 1941 World War II: 817 Battle of the Java Sea: 1942 World War II: 2,336 Battle of Midway: 1942 World War II: 3,364 Battle of Santa Cruz Islands: 1942 World War II: 766 Battle of Savo Island: 1942 World War II: 1217 Naval Battle of Casablanca: 1942 World War II: 636 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: 1943 World ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
Some civilians were killed in the Bombing of Dublin in World War II and County Carlow in apparently-accidental bombings by the Luftwaffe. [146] The bombings have been cited as the result of either deliberate attacks, errors in navigation or British electronic countermeasures against the Luftwaffe. It was established much later that the ...
Several other cities in northern Italy suffered heavy damage and casualties due to USAAF bombings, usually aimed at factories and marshalling yards but often inaccurate; among them Bologna (2,481 casualties), [205] Padua (about 2,000 casualties), [206] Rimini (98% of the city was destroyed or damaged), [207] Treviso (1,600 killed in the bombing ...
The report estimated 600,000 civilian deaths (150,000 violent Deaths during war in 1945; 200,000 in Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union and 250,000 in post war internment Camps and forced labor in Eastern Europe) [131] In particular, the report identified deaths due to crimes against international law: the 1958 report of the Federal ...