Mai 1974. 1-Summary Report (July 1946) Total civilian casualties in Japan, as a result of 9 months of air attack, including those from the atomic bombs, were approximately 806,000. The raid was a disaster, almost two-thirds of the attacking force became casualties. The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. Soviet sources list the deaths of 403 of the 2,377 Finnish. Egyptian military casualties were 1,125 killed and 1,308 wounded. J. Arch Getty and Stephen G. Wheatcroft maintain that Soviet-era figures more accurately detail the victims of the Gulag labor camp system in the Stalin era. Germany (West). Routledge. 1937-1940 - Red Army purges . D. The systematic extermination of large numbers of people for political, religious or racial reasons. Fighting on the Western Front was preceded by the Phony War. The following notes summarize German expulsion casualties, the details are presented in the flight and expulsion of Germans (19441950), the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union' and the Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans. Deported during the War 19411945 about 2.3million persons of Soviet ethnic minorities including: Soviet Germans 1,209,000; Finns 9,000; Karachays 69,000; Kalmyks 92,000; Chechens and Ingush 479,000; Balkars 37,000; Crimean Tatars 191,014; Meskhetian Turks 91,000; Greeks, Bulgarians and Armenians from Crimea 42,000; Ukrainian OUN members 100,000; Poles 30,000. Some 40,000 Roma were murdered. Entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties during attacks and counter-attacks and no significant advances were made. [45], This article is about the West European theatre. Russian demographer Boris Urlanis estimated Czechoslovak war dead of 340,000 persons, 46,000 military and 294,000 civilians. This would bring the total number of Italian military personnel killed to some 341,000 (excluding colonial troops). In 2018, the United States Holocaust museum has the number of murdered during the time period of the holocaust at 17million 6million Jews and 11million others. The estimated breakdown for each Soviet republic of total war dead[10]^AY4. 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. ), The preliminary data for Canadian losses included killed 37,476, missing 1,843, wounded 53,174 and. The Italian front is considered a separate but related theater. Estonia's human losses due to the Soviet and German occupation of Estonia from 1940 to 1945 were approximately 67,000 persons based on a study by Estonian State Commission on Examination of Policies of Repression. by Konrad Adenauer. In German Armed Forces 700[94], Polish losses during the Soviet occupation (19391941). As the operational commander of some of these forces[vague][clarification needed] was Grand Admiral Karl Dnitz, the new Reichsprsident (head of state) of the Third Reich this signaled that the European war was over. They maintain that figures related to flight and expulsion have been manipulated by the German government due to political pressure. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. British casualties on the first day totalled 58,000, the worst single day loss of the war. [384] Michael Haynes, Counting Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War: a Note Europe Asia Studies Vol. (This paper was a presentation at an academic conference in Warsaw Poland in 1994), Dzieje Najnowsze Rocznik XXI-1994, Pistohlkors, Gert. Casualties in 193940 include the following dead and missing: The number of wounded includes 2,576,000 permanently disabled. [42] This later caused some friction with the Yugoslav forces, notably around Trieste. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. XXX Corps was able to advance beyond six of the seven airborne-held bridges but was unable to link up with the troops near the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem. On 4 April the encirclement was completed and the Ninth Army reverted to the command of Bradley's 12th Army Group. E. Reduced food supply caused famine and disease. [447] The commission found that the demographic estimates by the German government of 220,000 to 270,000 civilian deaths due to expulsions from Czechoslovakia were based on faulty data. German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. Page 478. During World War II, the Western Front was the theater of fighting west of Germany, encompassing the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Denmark. 2,055,575 German soldiers surrendered between D-Day and 16 April 1945, The Times, 19 April p 4; 755,573 German soldiers surrendered between 1 and 16 April, The Times, 18 April p 4, which means that 1,300,002 German soldiers surrendered to the Western Allies between D-Day and the end of March 1945. The names of U.S. Bilanz der Forschung unter besonderer Bercksichtigung der Wehrmacht- und Vertreibungsverluste, in: Der Zweite Weltkrieg. Answer (1 of 5): WW1 total military deaths: between 8 573 054 and 10 824 236. In Episode 3 we take apart the most gruesome battles seen on the Western Front, North African Campaign and Middle Eastern Operations. According to the official history of the Italian Army (Rovighi, Alberto (1988), Estimates for total Japanese war dead in 19371945 range from at least 2.5million. According to Norwegian government sources the war dead were 10,200. The statistics tabulated by the CWGC are representative of the number of names commemorated for all servicemen/women of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth and former UKDependencies, whose death was attributable to their war service. 2004/1, p. 4 (2,000,000), Gesamterhebung zur Klrung des Schicksals der deutschen Bevlkerung in den Vertreibungsgebieten, Mnchen: Zentralstelle des Kirchl. [603] "Gunfire" includes tanks of course, but also includes AT Guns, StuGs, other SPGs, and artillery pieces. The exact number of dead and injured will never be known because of the confusion after the explosions. These figures vary because of the shift of borders between 1937 and 1940. 1961 (. During the war, Swedish merchant shipping was attacked by both German and Soviet submarines; 2,000 merchant seamen were killed. The Germans launched a second, smaller offensive (Nordwind) into Alsace on 1 January 1945. (1998) A German demographic study estimated 5,500,000 to 6,900,000 war dead. Research in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused a revision of estimates of Soviet World War II fatalities. Cuba lost 5 merchant ships and 79 merchant mariners died. Commissariato generale C.G.V. Deaths due to air and V-rocket attacks were 60,595 civilians and 1,206 British Home Guard. [40], General Eisenhower's Armies were facing resistance that varied from almost non-existent to fanatical[41] as they advanced toward Berlin, which was located 200km (120mi) from their positions in early April 1945. The official Russian figure for total POW held by the Germans is 4,059,000; the number of Soviet, Conscripted reservists is an estimate of men called up, primarily in 1941, who were killed in battle or died as. [nb 12] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered as separate theatres. [42] The British and Americans contemplated an airborne operation before the attack. Holocaust Encyclopedia "Nazi Persecution of Soviet Prisoners of War", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Encyclopedia: "The German Army and the Racial Nature of the War Against the Soviet Union", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Encyclopedia: "Persecution of Homosexuals in the Third Reich", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Western Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Western Germany. Out of 60,000 Indian Army POWs taken at the Fall of Singapore, 11,000 died in captivity. A Japanese academic study published in 1979 by The Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki puts the total dead in the atomic attacks at 140,000 ( 10,000) in Hiroshima and 70,000 ( 10,000) in Nagasaki. by Konrad Adenauer. in the Dutch famine of 1944. Seventh and Third Armies) into southeastern Germany and Austria. [94] United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[236]. Operations ceased at 2301 hours Central European time (CET) on 8 May. Military figures include battle deaths (KIA) and personnel missing in action (MIA), as well as fatalities due to accidents, disease and deaths of prisoners of war in captivity. Military war dead reported by Rdiger Overmans of 261,000 are included with Germany. An additional 700,000 were taken prisoner by the Soviets were 50,000 died in forced labor in the USSR and Outer Mongolia. Rossiia i SSSR v voinakh XX veka: Poteri vooruzhennykh sil; statisticheskoe issledovanie OLMA-Press, 2001; ISBN 5-224-01515-4 Table 176", "Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2014-2015 p.38", "The "Debt of Honour Register" from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission", "Service Files of the Second World War War Dead, 19391947", "Seconde Guerre mondiale: tombs sous les bombes "amies", Bundesarchiv Euthanasie im Nationalsozialismus, "Bundeszentrale fr politische Bildung, Die Vertreibung der Deutschen aus den Gebieten jenseits von Oder und Neie", "Bundesamt fr Bevlkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe Hampe: Der zivile Luftschutz im Zweiten Weltkrieg", Zahl der Vertreibungsopfer ist neu zu erforschen Rdiger Overmans Deutschlandfunk. Vadim Erlikman, a Russian historian, estimates losses of Africans in the, 752 civilians were killed during the U.S. air attacks on. Moscow, Nauka, 1993; S. N. Mikhalev, Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie, Krasnoiarskii gos. On Utah Beach, U.S. troops suffered only 197 casualties, the lightest of any beach, when they accidentally landed in the wrong spot. 1993. The Ustasa also killed most of Croatia's Jews, 20,000 Gypsies, and many thousands of their political enemies. In addition, the war and genocidal policy were inextricably linked. [260] In August 1941, 243,106 Poles living in the Special Settlements were amnestied and released by the Soviets. The U.S. Bureau of the Census noted that the official Yugoslav government figure of 1.7million war dead was overstated because it "was released soon after the war and was estimated without the benefit of a postwar census". The German Army Group B commanded by Field Marshal Walther Model was trapped in the Ruhr Pocket and 300,000 soldiers became POWs. Total military dead for the United Kingdom alone (according to preliminary 1945 figures): 264,443. The Red Ball Express, the Allied trucking effort, was simply unable to transport enough supplies from the port facilities in Normandy all the way to the front line, which by September, was close to the German border. [476], 5-Strategic Bombing Survey The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki The most striking result of the atomic bombs was the great number of casualties. Independent Russian historian Vadim Erlikman estimated Latvian civilian war dead in 194145 at 220,000 (35,000 in military operations; 110,000 executed, 35,000 in Germany and 40,000 due to hunger and disease. The total still missing on 2/28/1946 were 6,244; Navy (340); Army (2,267); Air Force (3,089); Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (18); With an introd. 1- The summary report of September 30, 1945 put total casualties for the entire period of the war at 305,000 killed and 780,000 wounded. Seventh Army and French First Army) fought a difficult campaign through the Vosges Mountains that was marked by dogged German resistance and slow advances. Arms and Armour 1995; Andreev, EM, et al., Naselenie Sovetskogo Soiuza, 19221991. 10 824 236/1567 = ~6908/day or 8 573 054/1567 = ~5471/day WW2 total miltary deaths: between 21 000 000 and 25 500 000. In early 1918 Imperial Germany knew it finally had a chance to win against the Allies. ): Legenden, Lgen, Vorurteile. Bonn 1989 P.41 (100,000 during wartime flight; 200,000 in USSR as forced labor and 100,000 in internment camps), Wirtschaft und Statistik October 1956, Journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. Germans played for time in Reims. The sources for the casualties of the individual nations do not use the same methods, and civilian deaths due to starvation and disease make up a large proportion of the civilian deaths in China and the Soviet Union. There were more than 60 million World War 2 casualties resulting in death which at the time was more than 2.5% of the overall world population. The German economist. iUniverse, Inc. (July 13, 2005). universitet, 2000; (Russian Academy of Sciences). WW1 started on July 28th 1914 and ended on November 11th 1918 and it lasted 1567 days. The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses. 73538. Central Pacific: 95,800, 151,400, (247,200) Total military dead were put at 4,440,000 (3,760,000 in prewar 1937 borders. Sankt-Peterburg 1995, Edwin Bacon, Glasnost and the Gulag: New information on Soviet forced labour around World WarII. The port of Antwerp was liberated on 4 September by the British 11th Armoured Division. Borneo: 11,300, 6,700, (18,000) With its main thrust again through the Hrtgen Forest, the offensive drove the Allies to the Rur River, but failed in its core objectives to capture the Rur dams and pave the way towards the Rhine. Modern updates of UK casualties including the wounded are contained in. Andreev EM; Darsky LE; Kharkova TL, Population dynamics: consequences of regular and irregular changes. Krasnoiarskii gos. Italian losses amounted to 1,250 killed or missing, 4,780 wounded, and no information is provided on any who were captured. [599] The Jasenovac Memorial Site quotes a similar figure of between 80,000 and 100,000 victims. German government figures of war losses do not include the increase in natural deaths with war casualties. The following notes summarize German casualties, the details are presented in German casualties in World War II. 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. (Victims of Two Dictatorships. (German government Statistical Office). Starting in early September, the Americans began slow and bloody fighting through the Hurtgen Forest ("Passchendaele with tree bursts"Hemingway) to breach the Line. In doing so, the Germans beat the Allies to the punch; the Allies had been planning an amphibious landing in which they could begin to surround Germany, cutting off her supply of raw materials from Sweden. [Tokyo], 1949, p. 1058, Tables 60809, Annual Changes in Population of Japan Proper 1 October 19201 October 1947, General Headquarters for the Allied Powers Economic and Scientific Section Research and Programs Division. Between 5,000 and 10,000 Filipinos serving with the Filipino troops, Scouts, Constabulary and Philippine Army units lost their lives on the, In 2009, Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota of the Polish, In his 2009 book, Andrzej Leon Sowa of the, The official Polish government report on war damages prepared in 1947 listed 6,028,000 war victims during the German occupation (including 123,178 military deaths, 2.8million Poles and 3.2million Jews), out of a population of 27,007,000 ethnic, In August 2009, Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota of the Polish. C. Deliberate acts of reprisal against target populations were perpetrated by all combatants. On 19 August, the French Resistance (FFI) organised a general uprising and the liberation of Paris took place on 25 August when general Dietrich von Choltitz accepted the French ultimatum and surrendered to general Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, commander of the Free French 2nd Armored Division, ignoring orders from Hitler that Paris should be held to the last and destroyed. Ein Wrterbuch zur Zeitgeschichte. Manchuria & USSR 7,483 killed and 4,641 wounded. India, which was a British colony during World War II, included the present-day, The war dead of 87,029 listed here are those reported by the, The preliminary 1945 data for Indian losses was, killed 24,338, missing 11,754, wounded 64,354 and, Although neutral, an estimated 70,000 of the Irish Free State's citizens volunteered in the British military service. [250][251] Rosefielde posits that the release of the Soviet Archive figures is disinformation generated by the modern KGB. While most of the German Army was fighting against Poland, a much smaller German force manned the Siegfried Line, their fortified defensive line along the French border. Deaths in battle were 292,131. 5354, Naselenie Rossii v XX Veke: V 3-kh Tomakh: Tom2. by Konrad Adenauer. 3). This belief is untrue. Moscow Page 294. Using this definition, the total number of. Germany (West). The French forces launched a small offensive, the Saar Offensive against Germany in the Saar region but halted their advance and returned. Census Bureau cited the following source for the population at 1/1/1939 for Czechoslovakia, State Statistical Office, Statistical Bulletin of Czechoslovakia, v. II (1947) no. ^I China After suffering 2,400 casualties, the most of any beach on D-Day, small groups of U.S. soldiers were able to break through the defenses, opening the way for successive waves. Inflicted severe casualties during attacks and counter-attacks and no information is provided on any who were captured 5. 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