Small and Singer put the military losses at 5,000. Estimated civilian deaths range from about 14 to 17 million. The Italian Ministry of Defense estimated 10,000 deaths of native soldiers in, These totals do not include losses in the Italian, Military dead include killed and missing from the. German efforts to interdict the Allies' trans-Atlantic trade at sea ignited the Battle of the Atlantic. On Utah Beach, U.S. troops suffered only 197 casualties, the lightest of any beach, when they accidentally landed in the wrong spot. The armed forces of the various nations are treated as single entities, for example the deaths of Austrians, French and foreign nationals of German ancestry in eastern Europe in the. New Guinea: 112,400, 15,200, (127,600) Altogether 35,000 of the 240,000 Europeans died; most of them were men of working age.". Stalin began purging the Red Army of its professional and skilled soldiers. [475], 4-The Effects of strategic bombing on Japanese morale Based on a survey of Japanese households the death toll was put at 900,000 dead and 1.3million injured, the SBS noted that this figure was subject to a maximum sampling error of 30%. 19401991 Tallinn 2005. The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World WarII. Newfoundland lost 1,089 persons with U.K. and Canadian Forces during the war. Niewyk, Donald L. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2000; Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960 Bonn 1961 p. 78, Bundesarchiv Euthanasie" im Nationalsozialismus, bundesarchiv.de; accessed 5 March 2016.(German). The official casualty statistics published by the governments of the United States, France, and the UK do not give the details of the national origin, race and religion of the losses. The German economist. Starting in early September, the Americans began slow and bloody fighting through the Hurtgen Forest ("Passchendaele with tree bursts"Hemingway) to breach the Line. Unlike other parts of South East Asia, Thailand did not suffer from famine during the war. An additional 700,000 were taken prisoner by the Soviets were 50,000 died in forced labor in the USSR and Outer Mongolia. However, when the Allies made a counter-landing in Norway following the German invasion, the Germans repulsed them and defeated the Norwegian armed forces, driving the latter into exile. Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945 Transaction 2007, Ho Ping-ti. Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie (Human Losses in the Great Patriotic War 19411945 A Statistical Investigation). Gruhl estimates POW deaths in Japanese captivity at 331,584. (the figures of 2.8 million Jews and 3.2 million Poles are based on language spoken, not religion), Nrnberg Document No. The Finnish National Archives website's database lists the names of the 94,676 Finnish war dead between 1939 and 1945. A Russian historian in a handbook of human losses in the 20th century has provided the following assessment of Czechoslovak casualties: The Danish Ministry of Education has detailed Denmark's losses in the war of about 8,000 persons including 2,685 killed in Denmark in bombing raids, resistance fighters and those executed by the Germans and 3,000 who died outside Denmark including (2,000 merchant seamen, 63 serving with Allied forces, 600 in German camps, 400 workers in Germany). Included in the figures of total war dead for each nation are victims of the Holocaust. As the Allies advanced across France, their supply lines stretched to breaking point. Military deaths included: 108 dead in the. (1989); Gerhard Reichling, Die deutschen Vertriebenen in Zahlen, Teil 1, Bonn 1995 (revised ed), Christoph Bergner, Secretary of State of Germany's Bureau for Inner Affairs, outlines the stance of the respective governmental institutions in. The military's complicity extended not only to the generals and upper leadership but also to the rank and file. [602] Jewish victims in Yugoslavia totaled 67,122. The Western Allies (primarily the French, Belgian and British land forces) soon collapsed under the onslaught of the so-called "blitzkrieg" strategy. (1956) A German government study put German air war dead at 635,000; 500,000 killed by allied strategic bombing and 135,000 refugees killed during the evacuations from eastern Europe in 1945. German Army GroupG surrendered to US forces at Haar, in Bavaria, on 5 May. An estimated 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 people died during World War II. Determined stands were made in April by German forces at Heilbronn, Nuremberg, and Munich but were overcome after several days.[when?] Holocaust Encyclopedia "Mosaic of Victims: Overview", "Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida, A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Encyclopedia: "Genocide of European Roma, 19391945", "Romanies and the Holocaust: A Reevaluation and an Overview", Jewish Responses to the Porajmos The Romani Holocaust, "Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Warsaw 1966, Ruas, scar Vasconcelos, "Relatrio 194647", AHU, Urlanis, Boris (1971). [256] In 2005 Tadeusz Piotrowski estimated the death toll in Soviet hands at 350,000. Of 7,080 BEF casualties, 5,533 losses were incurred by the 5th Australian Division; German losses were 1,600-2,000, with 150 taken prisoner. 2: 1978 (3,000,000), Encyclopdia Britannica 1992 (2,384,000), The Expulsion of "German" Communities from Eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War, Steffen Prauser and Arfon Rees, European University Institute, Florence. Solomon Islands: 63,200, 25,000, (88,200) Sumatra: 2,700, 500, (3,200) Veritable and Grenade were planned to start on 8 February 1945, but Grenade was delayed by two weeks when the Germans flooded the Roer valley by destroying the gates of the Rur Dam upstream. Soviet Studies Vol44. The distinction between military and civilian casualties caused directly by warfare and collateral damage is not always clear-cut. The Eastern Front, which stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, was more than twice as long as the Western Front. Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie (Human Losses in the Great Patriotic War 19411945 A Statistical Investigation). Civilian losses due to attacks on merchant shipping were 470 merchant mariners and 502 passengers. The number of partisans escalated during the final insurrection of April 1945. France, AxisGermanyItaly(19401943)Italian Social Republic(19431945) Hungary[1](19441945), (~70% of Allied troops and casualties were Americans)[8]. Losses by branch of service: Army 201,405; Navy 22,034; Air Force 9,096; Colonial Forces 354; Chaplains 91; Fascist militia German government figures of war losses do not include the increase in natural deaths with war casualties. By the time the water had subsided and the US Ninth Army was able to cross the Roer on 23 February, other Allied forces were also close to the Rhine's west bank. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World WarII and 16 were killed in action. 3,700 Dutch nationals in the German armed forces and 7,500 missing and presumed dead in Germany and 16,000 deaths French losses were 92,000 KIA, 39,600 MIA and over 250,000 WIA. [1] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered under separate headings. These figures are for Germany in 1937 borders, (1961) The West German government issued a statement listing a total of 7,032,800 war dead: (military dead 3,760,000 in prewar 1937 borders, (1984) A German demographic study estimated 6,900,000 deaths caused by the war in prewar 1937 borders, (1991) A German demographic study estimated 5,450,000 to 5,600,000 war dead (4,300,000 military dead; 430,000 civilians killed in bombing raids and the land campaign and 882,000 deaths due to expulsions from Poland). Ingo Haar, "Hochgerechnetes Unglck, Die Zahl der deutschen Opfer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird bertrieben", Sddeutsche Zeitung, November 14, 2006. people on Earth in 1940. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth place. Millions also died as a result of other German actions. [252] Rosefielde maintains that the data from the Soviet archives is incomplete; for example, he pointed out that the figures do not include the 22,000 victims of the Katyn massacre. Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. (1993). [39], The US 12th Army Group fanned out, and the First Army went north as the southern pincer of the Ruhr encirclement. of Commerce) Washington 1953. p. 43 The U.S. Commerce Dept. However, it lay at the end of the long Scheldt Estuary, and so it could not be used until its approaches were clear of heavily fortified German positions. [89], Military(Norwegian & Allied Forces) 2,000 (800 Army, 900 Navy and 100 Air). The annual death rate in 19421945 of Americans interned by Japan was about 3.5%. Second phase: July-September 1916 Manchuria & USSR 7,483 killed and 4,641 wounded. Under Japanese internment, 992 died and another 544 were listed as "unknown"; under German internment, 168 died and a further 715 were listed as "unknown". American losses were 586,628, including 135,576 dead. 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