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During the Second World War (1939–1945), India was a part of the British Empire. British India officially declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939. [1] India, as a part of the Allied Nations, sent over two and a half million soldiers to fight under British command against the Axis powers.
Ethiopian Civil War and Eritrean War of Independence: 1.75–2 million [57] [58] [59] 1961–1991 [d] EPRDF, later EPLF, vs. Derg and People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: Horn of Africa Russo-Circassian War and Caucasian War: 1.5–2 million [60] 1763–1864 Circassian Confederation, Principality of Abkhazia, and Caucasian Imamate vs ...
The Raj At War: A People's History of India's Second World War (Random House India, 2015); published in US and UK as India At War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War (Oxford U.P. 2015) L, Klemen (2000). "Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942". Archived from the original on 26 July 2011
A Military History of India and South Asia: From the East India Company to the Nuclear Era (2006) Roy, Kaushik. From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in India from 326 BC to AD 1999 (2004) Roy, Kaushik. The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India (2009) Sandhu, Gurcharn Singh. Military History of Medieval India (2003) Subramaniam ...
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 800,000–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor ...
The People's Republic of China puts its war dead at 20 million, [10] while the Japanese government puts its casualties due to the war at 3.1 million. [11] An estimated 7–10 million people died in the Dutch , British , French and US colonies in South and Southeast Asia , mostly from war-related famine.
Ball of fire – The Fifth Indian Division in the Second World War. Aldershot: Gale & Polden. OCLC 4275700. Archived from the original on 2020-03-27; Das, Chand (1996). "Indian Infantry Divisions in World War II – Part I". Journal of the United Service Institution of India. CXXVI (525: July/September 1996): 374– 387.
During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, Nazi Germany carried out a number of atrocities involving Polish prisoners of war (POWs). The first documented massacres of Polish POWs took place as early as the first day of the war; [2]: 11 others followed (ex. the Serock massacre [] of 5 September).