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According to a report published by the Reuters News Agency, on July 29 1945 highly confidential archives found at Flensburg, in the house of General Reinecke showed German losses up to November 30, 1944, as 3.6 million, detailed in the following schedule. Source of figures: Gregory Frumkin. Population Changes in Europe Since 1939, Geneva 1951.
Estimates for the total death count of the Second World War generally range somewhere between 70 and 85 million people. The Soviet Union suffered the highest number of fatalities of...
See estimates for worldwide deaths, broken down by country, in World War II.
Nazi Germany ordered, organized and condoned a substantial number of war crimes in World War II. The most notable of these is the Holocaust in which millions of Jews , Poles , and Romani were systematically murdered or died from abuse and mistreatment.
Nearly one-third of all homes in Great Britain and Poland were damaged or destroyed, as were roughly one-fifth of those in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia. In Germany ’s 49 largest cities, nearly 40 percent of homes were seriously damaged or destroyed.
About 4,200,000 Germans died, and about 1,972,000 Japanese died. In all, the scale of human losses during World War II was vast. A table that details estimated deaths by country is available here .
The map also makes vivid the immense sacrifice borne by the population in the Soviet Union in the defeat of National Socialist Germany: over 20 million dead, including both civilian and military casualties.
In total, between 350,000 to 500,000 Germans were killed by Allied aerial bombing. Furthermore, about 7.7 million Germans were killed throughout the entire war. 4. Poland - 5,600,000 Polish women led by soldiers through woods to their execution during World War 2. Editorial credit: Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com
About 4,200,000 Germans died, and about 1,972,000 Japanese died. In all, the scale of human losses during World War II was vast. A table that details estimated deaths by country is available here .
The following countries have the highest estimated World War II casualties: the Soviet Union (20 to 27 million), China (15 to 20 million), Germany (6 to 7.4 million), Poland (5.9 to 6 million), Dutch East Indies/Indonesia (3 to 4 million), Japan (2.5 to 3.1 million), India (2.2 to 3 million), Yugoslavia (1 to 1.7 million), French Indochina ...