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The German Red Cross reported in 2005 that the records of the WASt showed total Wehrmacht losses to have been 4.3 million men (3.1 million dead and 1.2 million missing) in World War II. Their figures include men conscripted from Austria and conscripted ethnic Germans from lands in Eastern Europe . [ 4 ]
Otherwise notable people killed serving with the German military during World War II.Note: This category is intended solely for those members of the German armed forces killed as a result of their military service and not those executed during internal purges, or those who died in Allied custody post-war.
The 1995 Polish estimate of military dead and missing was 95,000-97,000 and 130,000 wounded in the 1939 campaign, including 17–19,000 killed by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacre [2] A 2000 study by the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office estimated total German military dead at 15,000 in September 1939.
During World War II, 14,059 American POWs died in enemy captivity throughout the war (12,935 held by Japan and 1,124 held by Germany). [341] During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in ...
The German War Graves Commission cares for the graves, at 832 cemeteries in 46 countries, of more than 2.7 million persons killed during World War I and World War II. [1] The German war graves are intended to remember all groups of war dead: military personnel, those dead by aerial warfare , murdered in the Holocaust , and all other persons ...
German casualties in World War II; T. Fritz Tittmann This page was last edited on 17 February 2024, at 09:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
See: Bombing of France during World War II. Cologne: Germany: 30–31 May 1942 411 Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command: Firestorm. See: Bombing of Cologne in World War II. Stalingrad: Soviet Union: 23 August 1942 955 [14] Oberkommando der Luftwaffe: Firestorm. See: Bombing of Stalingrad in World War II. Mortsel: Belgium: 5 April 1943 936
They state that the notion that one-third of the German aircraft were shot down by friendly fire is "myth". [10] Jochen Prien and Gerhard Stemmer in their book, Jagdgeschwader 3 "Udet" in World War II, quoted Allied losses as being 340 destroyed with 84 heavily damaged from Allied records. [12]