Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961 pp. 3133 (they give figure of 300,000 German deaths due to racial, religious and political persecution including 170,000 Jews. Moscow, Nauka, 1993; S. N. Mikhalev, Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie, Krasnoiarskii gos. The attack started on 16 December in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge. Mentally and Physically Handicapped: Victims of the Nazi Era", Bundesarchiv: Euthanasie-Verbrechen 19391945, "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Regarding overall losses, they concluded that "It was further estimated that an additional number, approximately 25% of known deaths in 194445, were still unrecovered and unrecorded. The hardest hit localities were Podgorica, Leskovac, Zadar and Belgrade. [147] One of the worst one-day massacres during the German military occupation of Serbia was the Kragujevac massacre. However, in the meantime, the Allies took the war to Germany, with a strategic bombing campaign the US Eighth Air Force bombing Germany by day and RAF Bomber Command bombing by night. Following two months of slow fighting in hedgerow country, Operation Cobra allowed the Americans to break out at the western end of the lodgement. [179] Estimates of Holocaust deaths range between 4.9 and 5.9million Jews.[180]. It was not possible to predict where the Allies might choose to launch their invasion. Curiously, until the autumn of 1916 German casualties on the Eastern Front in proportion to the number of men were not smaller than in the West despite Russian weakness in artillery and ammunition. pp. Unlike other parts of South East Asia, Thailand did not suffer from famine during the war. The Germans managed to hold a large bridgehead (the Colmar Pocket), on the western bank of the Rhine and centered around the city of Colmar. With an introduction by Konrad Adenauer. [256] In 2005 Tadeusz Piotrowski estimated the death toll in Soviet hands at 350,000. Soviet sources list the deaths of 403 of the 2,377 Finnish. These figures are for Germany in 1937 borders. Published in Schulze, Rainer, Flchtlinge und Vertriebene in der westdeutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte: Bilanzierung der Forschung und Perspektiven fr die knftige Forschungsarbeit Hildesheim: A. Lax, 1987. The German economist. These figures include Austria and foreign nationals of German ancestry in eastern Europe. Because of the decline in activity in the two port cities, the constant threat of incendiary raids, and the formal evacuation programs of the Government, an unknown number of the inhabitants had either drifter away from the cities or been removed according to plan. [nb 12] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered as separate theatres. Aiming to recapture Strasbourg, the Germans attacked the 6th Army Group at multiple points. Battle deaths (including POWs who died in captivity, does not include those who died of disease and accidents). Total deaths from 1940 to 1953 due to the war and the Soviet occupation were approximately 83,000 persons (7.3% of the population). Albanian official statistics claim somewhat higher losses. 95% of POWs taken by the Germans on the Western front survived. Most of the troops were Canadian, with some British contingents and a small American and Free French presence along with British and Polish naval support. 33 Swedish sailors were killed when submarine HMS Ulven was sunk by a German mine on April 16, 1943. Presse- und Informationsamt. 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. Generals Eisenhower and Bradley concluded that pushing beyond the Elbe made no sense since eastern Germany was destined in any case to be occupied by the Red Army. Eng. Central Pacific: 95,800, 151,400, (247,200) Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. After the war ended deaths at the hands of the Red Army and local Chinese population were 185,000 Manchuria, 28,000 in North Korea and 10,000 on Sakhalin and the Kurile islands. 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. In addition 2,000 Danish volunteers were killed serving in the German military. 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded. There were 3,000 civilian deaths in Allied air raids including 1,400 in the bombing of Sofia. Ingo Haar, "Hochgerechnetes Unglck, Die Zahl der deutschen Opfer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird bertrieben", Sddeutsche Zeitung, November 14, 2006. Using this definition, the total number of. Merchant Mariners killed in World War II are listed by USMM.org. German Federal Archive Spieler, Silke. Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960, p. 78. Combat Dead by Theater of war: EuropeAtlantic 183,588 (Army ground forces 141,088, Army Air Forces 36,461, and Navy/Coast Guard 6,039); AsiaPacific 108,504 (Army ground forces 41,592, Army Air Forces 15,694, Navy/Coast Guard 31,485, Marine Corps 19,733); unidentified theaters 39 (Army). pedagog. 22629, journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. The 1949 report of the Japanese government Economic Stabilization Board detailed the casualties caused by air raids and sea bombardment. $15.99 + $4.99 shipping . The Black Forest and Baden were overrun by the French First Army.[when?] A joint CzechGerman Historical Commission determined that between 15,000 and 30,000 Germans perished in the expulsions. Military war dead reported by Rdiger Overmans of 261,000 are included with Germany. [474], 3-The effects of air attack on Japanese urban economy. 3-Included in these statistics are 322,807 POWs held by the US and UK. 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. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hg. It is said that the Russians could have won the Second World War without any support from the US or Commonwealth forces, above all because of their large quantity of produced T-34 tanks. Ingo Haar, "Straty zwiazane z wypedzeniami: stan bada, problemy, perspektywy", Die Flucht der deutschen Bevlkerung 1944/45, "Does Germany owe Greece wartime reparations money? During World War II, the German military helped fulfill Nazism's racial, political, and territorial ambitions. [247] The Russian scholar Viktor Zemskov puts the death toll from 1941 to 1945 at about 1million based on data from the Soviet archives. R. J. Rummel estimates the civilian victims of Japanese democide at 5,964,000. Germany (West). French Indochina 2,803 killed and 6,000 wounded. Totally barbarism prevailed. (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. [258], The following is a summary of the data from the Soviet archives: Siberia: 52,300, 400, (52,700) Soviet sources list the deaths of 474,967 of the 2,652,672 German Armed Forces, Estimated total Soviet military war dead in 194145 on the. The United Nations reported in 1947 that "about 30,000 Europeans and 300,000 Indonesian internees and forced laborers died during the occupation." [Tokyo] 1949, pp. "[597] According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum "The Croat authorities murdered between 320,000 and 340,000 ethnic Serb residents of Croatia and Bosnia during the period of Ustaa rule; more than 30,000 Croatian Jews were killed either in Croatia or at Auschwitz-Birkenau". No sure count of even the prepaid populations existed. & Jap. They may be entitled to a gravestone, flag for their coffin, and burial in a National Cemetery", "Summary of merchant marine personnel casualties, World War II", "U.S. Stara Gradika was a sub-camp of Jasenovac established for women and children. The local, According to an official U.S. report during the. 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. 2004/1, p. 4 (2,000,000), Gesamterhebung zur Klrung des Schicksals der deutschen Bevlkerung in den Vertreibungsgebieten, Mnchen: Zentralstelle des Kirchl. [601] Serbian sources currently claim that 700,000 persons were murdered at Jasenovac. The Auckland War Museum puts the number of World War II dead at 11,671. ), (1945) The casualty figures compiled by the. Krasnoiarskii gos. The military's complicity extended not only to the generals and upper leadership but also to the rank and file. Commissariato generale C.G.V. Dieter Pohl, Verfolgung und Massenmord in der NS-Zeit 19331945, WBG (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 2003; Rossiiskaia Akademiia nauk. World War I Killed, wounded, and missing The casualties suffered by the participants in World War I dwarfed those of previous wars: some 8,500,000 soldiers died as a result of wounds and/or disease. Missing and presumed dead(including POWs) were 131,419 (111,579 pre-armistice, 19,840 post armistice)[446] 7,614,790 were held in POW camps by early June of 1945 (including 3,404,950 who were disarmed following the surrender of Germany), All totals listed only include direct deaths due to military activity and crimes against humanity, including the, German deployments to the Western Front (plus Italy) reached levels as high as approximately 40% of their ground forces, and 75% of the. In Berlin, the Reichsbanner resistance organization identified possible drop zones for Allied paratroopers and planned to guide them past German defenses into the city.[43]. Data from the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation puts the number of Dutch POW captured by the Japanese at 37,000 of whom 8,500 died. in the Dutch famine of 1944. H.W. Army total 1,140,429 killed and 295,247 wounded. In the resulting battle, the city was taken, at a cost of 5,000 casualties on both sides, with an additional 5,600 German prisoners. Hitler survived to wreak a terrible vengeance on at least 2,000 army officers (including Rommel) and launch a desperate counter-attack on the Western Front in December 1944, now known as the 'Battle of the Bulge'. Germany (West). by Konrad Adenauer. by Michael Berenbaum New York University Press 1990; Niewyk, Donald L. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2000; Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, Basic Books 2010, pp. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1996. The database contains civilians in case they have been buried at a military cemetery. For nations that suffered huge losses such as the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Germany, and Yugoslavia, sources can give only the total estimated population loss caused by the war and a rough estimate of the breakdown of deaths caused by military activity, crimes against humanity and war-related famine. : -Human Losses of the USSR in the Period of WWII: Collection of Articles. The preliminary data for Australian losses included 23,365 killed, 6,030 missing, 39,803 wounded, and 26,363 POWs. F. Allied bombing of German supply lines caused civilian casualties. 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. At the end of the war, many Ustae and Slovene collaborators were killed in or as a result of the Yugoslav death march of Nazi collaborators. The war dead totals listed in the report are based on the research by the CWGC to identify and commemorate Commonwealth war dead. British losses totalled to 11,010 killed or missing, 14,070 wounded (only those who were evacuated have been counted), and 41,340 taken prisoner. Malaya & Singapore: 8,500, 2,900, (11,400) In their hurry to re-arm, Britain and France had both begun to buy large numbers of weapons from manufacturers in the United States at the outbreak of hostilities, supplementing their own production. Defending the Ardennes were troops of the US First Army. Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, urged Eisenhower to continue the advance toward Berlin by the 21st Army Group, under the command of Montgomery with the intention of capturing the city. (1 January 1995). Fulfill Nazism 's racial, religious and political persecution including 170,000 Jews. 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