The military's complicity extended not only to the generals and upper leadership but also to the rank and file. [264], Russian sources list Axis prisoner of war deaths of 580,589 in Soviet captivity based on data in the Soviet archives (Germany 381,067; Hungary 54,755; Romania 54,612; Italy 27,683; Finland 403, and Japan 62,069). Soon after, the Allies were racing across France. 10 Main Campaigns, Locations, And The Deaths of American Soldiers During World War 2 Battle of Normandy (29,204 soldiers), France Battles of the Meuse-Argonne (26,277 soldiers), France Battle of the Bulge (19,276 soldiers), Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany Central Europe Campaign (15,009) Battle of Okinawa (14,000 soldiers), Japan "Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Netherlands" (PDF). , , ed. 5-Figures of missing include POWs held by Allies. 1823, Mikhalev, S. N (2000). According to Russian estimates the population in 1939 included 20.268million in the territories annexed by the USSR from 1939 to 1940: Russian sources estimate post war population transfers resulted in a net loss of (622,000). Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 50-56 million, with an additional estimated 19-28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the other victims persecuted and killed by the Nazis. Okinawa: 67,900, 21,500, (89,400) These figures include military dead of 30,000 Chinese from Taiwan and 22,182 Koreans. Vertreibungsgebieten stlich von Oder und Neie. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[236]. The war dead totals listed in the report are based on the research by the CWGC to identify and commemorate Commonwealth war dead. Of the country's total casualties, about 2.1 million were military personnel while 500,000-800,000 were civilians. Eng. 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. 10 May 1945, Last edited on 21 December 2022, at 04:17, List of Commando raids on the Atlantic Wall, Western Front command tenures (World War II), Learn how and when to remove this template message, George C Marshall, Biennial reports of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army to the Secretary of War: 1 July 193930 June 1945. ), The British colony of Malaya consisted of the. (German government Statistical Office), Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960 Bonn 1961 p.79 (available online at, German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded. [598] The USHMM reports between 77,000 and 99,000 persons were killed at the Jasenovac and Stara Gradika concentration camps. 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. Advancing from northern Italy, the British Eighth Army[a] pushed to the borders of Yugoslavia to defeat the remaining Wehrmacht elements there. By mid-September, the 6th Army Group, advancing from the south, came into contact with Bradley's formations advancing from the west and overall control of Devers' force passed from AFHQ in the Mediterranean so that all three army groups came under Eisenhower's central command at SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces). If the British refused to agree to a peace treaty, one option was to invade. vs. United States 485,717 killed and 34,679 wounded. Missing and presumed dead(including POWs) were 131,419 (111,579 pre-armistice, 19,840 post armistice)[446] According to Norwegian government sources the war dead were 10,200. "Christian Streit: Keine Kameraden: Die Wehrmacht und die Sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen, 19411945, Bonn: Dietz (3. [7][8] The Red Army claimed responsibility for the majority of Wehrmacht casualties during World War II. Really, it is! 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. Ein Wrterbuch zur Zeitgeschichte. Gruhl estimates POW deaths in Japanese captivity at 331,584. 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). German efforts to interdict the Allies' trans-Atlantic trade at sea ignited the Battle of the Atlantic. Ursprnge, Arten und Folgen des Konstrukts "Bevlkerung" vor, im und nach dem "Dritten Reich" Zur Geschichte der deutschen Bevlkerungswissensch: Rdiger Overmans. Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths and wounded caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject. Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt requested permission to withdraw east behind the Rhine, arguing that further resistance would only delay the inevitable, but was ordered by Hitler to fight where his forces stood. 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. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1996. G. The demographic losses due to the reduction of 335,000 births and emigration of about 660,000 are not included with war casualties. Civilian war dead are included with the nations where they resided. During World War II, 14,059 American POWs died in enemy captivity throughout the war (12,935 held by Japan and 1,124 held by Germany). western front ww2 casualties. ; Kharkova, T.L. 15", "Figures were compiled by the Relief Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in March 1964", American Historical Association: Lessons from Iwo Jima footnote 1, "Reports of General MacArthur. Russian historian. German casualties based on statistics collected during the war included 27,074 KIA, 18,384 MIA and 111,034 WIA. [147] The Finnish National Archives website's database lists the names of the 94,676 Finnish war dead between 1939 and 1945. [448], Key: Location, Army dead, Navy dead, (Total dead) Philippines: 377,500, 121,100, (498,600) Warsaw 1966, Ruas, scar Vasconcelos, "Relatrio 194647", AHU, Urlanis, Boris (1971). According to the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare 65,000 soldiers and civilians were killed in the 1945 military campaign against the Soviet Union. [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. In October the Americans decided that they could not just invest Aachen and let it fall in a slow siege, because it threatened the flanks of the U.S. Ninth Army. 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. Bevlkerungsbilanzen fr die deutschen Vertreibungsgebiete 1939/50.Herausgeber: Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1958. The plan called Wacht am Rhein ("Watch on the Rhine") was to attack through the Ardennes and swing north to Antwerp, splitting the American and British armies. Radiation Effects Research Foundation How many people died as a result of the atomic bombings? (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. Included in the figures of total war dead for each nation are victims of the Holocaust. The death toll attributable to the flight and expulsions was estimated at 2.2million by the West German government in 1958. Merchant Mariners killed in World War II are listed by USMM.org. & Jap. 2-These statistics include casualties of the volunteer forces from the Soviet Union. Japan proper 10,543 killed and 6,782 wounded. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Original emissaries had no authority to surrender to any of the Allies. [247] The Russian scholar Viktor Zemskov puts the death toll from 1941 to 1945 at about 1million based on data from the Soviet archives. During September and October, the Allied 6th Army Group (U.S. 5354. [147] There were additional casualties in 193940, which totaled 136,945: There were 4,500 military deaths with the all Spanish. The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Gtz von Berlichingen was located just south of the Loire in the vicinity of Tours. UK casualties include losses of the colonial forces. Siberia: 52,300, 400, (52,700) Military deaths from all causes totaled 21-25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961, pp. Even Patton agreed with Churchill that he should order the attack on the city since Montgomery's troops could reach Berlin within three days. About 298,000 Americans died. The Americans accidentally bombed neutral Switzerland during the war causing civilian casualties. 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. The preliminary data for Australian losses included 23,365 killed, 6,030 missing, 39,803 wounded, and 26,363 POWs. 3,700 Dutch nationals in the German armed forces and 7,500 missing and presumed dead in Germany and 16,000 deaths Universe, Inc. (July 13, 2005). 600,000 POWs of Allies; 50,000 POWs of Russians; 650,000 POWs of Germans, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR (POWs) AND MISSING IN ACTION (MIAs), U. S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR (POWs) AND MISSING IN ACTION (MIAs) (incl. Stara Gradika was a sub-camp of Jasenovac established for women and children. The Kriegsmarine, nonetheless, suffered very heavy losses during the two months of fighting required to seize all of mainland Norway. Deported from annexed territories 194041 380,000 to 390,000 persons, including: Poland 309312,000; Lithuania 17,500; Latvia 17,000; Estonia 6,000; Moldova 22,842. [195][196], The following figures are from The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, the authors maintain that "statistics on Gypsy losses are especially unreliable and controversial. Latze Member Posts: 377 Joined: 08 May 2010, 17:55 Re: German Casualties - Eastern Front vs. Western Front by Latze 14 Sep 2015, 23:06 Dieter Pohl, Verfolgung und Massenmord in der NS-Zeit 19331945, WBG (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 2003; Rossiiskaia Akademiia nauk. Die deutschen Vertreibungsverluste. 2-These statistics include casualties of the volunteer forces from the Soviet Union. The losses listed here are actual deaths; hypothetical losses due to a decline in births are not included with the total dead. 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. Civilian losses included 160,000 Jewish Holocaust dead, As Ruanda [Rwanda] was not occupied nor its food supply cut off, these deaths are not usually included with World War II casualties. 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