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Monument to stillborn babies in Germany. In Germany, a stillbirth is defined as the birth of a child of at least 500g weight without blood circulation or breath. Details for burial vary amongst the federal states. [66]
It is estimated that between 1943 and 1945 some 100,000 infants of slave labourers from Poland and the Soviet Union were killed by forced abortion or by calculated neglect after birth in Germany. [10] By other estimates, up to 200,000 children might have died. [11]
C. British Democide- 378,000 civilians killed in area bombing of Germany [85] D. United States Democide- 37,000 (32,000 civilians killed in area bombing of Germany and 5,000 German POW.) [86] E. French Democide-23,000 German POW. [87] F. Yugoslav Democide- 145,000 (75,000 ethnic Germans and 70,000 POW) [88] g. Hungarian Democide-12,000 ethnic ...
Admiral Kidd was the first US flag officer to die during World War II and the first American admiral ever to be killed in action. [3] A National Historic Landmark , she is now a museum ship , berthed on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana , and is the only surviving US destroyer still in her World War II configuration.
The bodies in the foreground are waiting to be thrown into the fire. Another picture shows one of the places in the forest where people undress before 'showering'—as they were told—and then go to the gas-chambers. Send film roll as fast as you can. Send the enclosed photos to Tell—we think enlargements of the photos can be sent further. [26]
During the Final Solution of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany created six extermination camps to carry out the systematic genocide of the Jews in German-occupied Europe.All the camps were located in the General Government area of German-occupied Poland, with the exception of Chelmno, which was located in the Reichsgau Wartheland of German-occupied Poland.
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.
Therefore, it was estimated that at least 100,000 people died in these camps and prisons. [81] Another 200,000 people died as a result of deportation to the USSR, based on German Red Cross estimates. [81] From addition of these values, the report found that east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, at least 400,000 people died during the expulsions. [81]