3- The section The Effect of Bombing on Health and Medical Care in Germany of January 1947 made a preliminary calculated estimate of air raid dead at 422,000. [255], In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated 150,000 Polish citizens were killed due to Soviet repression. The Japanese Central Liaison Office reported in July 1947 to the Allied occupation authorities that Japanese military dead in 19351945 were 1,687,738 (1,340,700 Army and 347,038 Navy. The database includes all servicemen and women who died during being listed in the Finnish army, navy or the air force. [45], This article is about the West European theatre. G. The demographic losses due to the reduction of 335,000 births and emigration of about 660,000 are not included with war casualties. (1960) The West German government issued figures of the war losses. Thailand: 6,900, 100, (7,000) Saint-Petersburg, 1995. The population listed here of 194.090million is taken from Soviet era sources. 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. The West German government put the number of Germans killed by the Nazi political, racial and religious persecution at 300,000 (including 170,000 German Jews). Aiming to recapture Strasbourg, the Germans attacked the 6th Army Group at multiple points. Total losses were 420,000 British, 200,000 French . - (Russian Academy of Sciences). Universe, Inc. (July 13, 2005). Confirmed dead were 159,957 (92,767 pre-armistice, 67,090 post armistice)[445] (1993). Italian losses amounted to 1,250 killed or missing, 4,780 wounded, and no information is provided on any who were captured. On 6 June 1944, the Allies began Operation Overlord (also known as "D-Day") the long-awaited liberation of France. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. D. The systematic extermination of large numbers of people for political, religious or racial reasons. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Persons unaccounted for might have been burned beyond recognition in the falling buildings, disposed of in one of the mass cremations of the first week of recovery, or driven out of the city to die or recover without any record remaining. Seventh Army and French First Army) fought a difficult campaign through the Vosges Mountains that was marked by dogged German resistance and slow advances. Merchant Navy (30,248); British Home Guard (1,206) and Civilians (60,595). Nor do the figures include additional deportations after the war). There were 1,536 deaths among the 13,996 interned civilians in 194245. Netherlands figure listed in the table of 112,000 Jews taken from, Donald L. Niewyk, professor of history at Southern Methodist University, maintains that the Holocaust can be defined in four ways: first, that it was the genocide of the Jews alone; second, that there were several parallel Holocausts, one for each of the several groups; third, the Holocaust would include Roma and the handicapped along with the Jews; fourth, it would include all racially motivated German crimes, such as the murder of Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, as well as political prisoners, religious dissenters, and homosexuals. Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2005; Gregory Frumkin. Suchdienstes, 1965. Mexico lost 7 merchant ships and 63 dead merchant mariners. Civilians in Navy service 114,493 killed and 1,880 wounded and missing. The figures for these losses are currently disputed, estimates of the total deaths range from 500,000 to 2,000,000. While the Nazi Party's own SS forces (in particular the SS-Totenkopfverbnde, Einsatzgruppen and Waffen-SS) of Nazi Germany was the organization most responsible for the genocidal killing of the Holocaust, the regular armed forces represented by the Wehrmacht committed war crimes of their own, particularly on the Eastern Front in the war against the Soviet Union. I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks and food magazines, and now, because of all the foodie blogs out there, I am adding more every day! The World War II Databook, by John Ellis, 1993 p. 256. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. As it was the first major German city to face capture, Hitler ordered that the city be held at all costs. Fighting on the Western front seemed to stabilize, and the Allied advance stalled in front of the Siegfried Line (Westwall) and the southern reaches of the Rhine. I. C. B. Dear and M. R. D. Foot Oxford Companion to World WarII Oxford, 2005; Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960 Bonn 1961 p.78 (available online at. On Utah Beach, U.S. troops suffered only 197 casualties, the lightest of any beach, when they accidentally landed in the wrong spot. These figures are for Germany in 1937 borders, (1956) The West German Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office)estimated total war dead of 5,650,000 = (3,760,000) military; (430,000) civilians killed in bombing raids and the land campaign; (1,260,000) deaths to expulsion from Poland and (200,000) victims of Nazi racial, religious or political persecution. 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. All sides practiced the shooting of hostages on a large scale. French Indochina: 7,900, 4,500, (12,400) The death toll attributable to the flight and expulsions was estimated at 2.2million by the West German government in 1958. The additions were the annexation of the, Estimates in the west for the population transfers differ. pp. Navy total 414,879 killed and 14,155 wounded and missing. 21st Army Group was then instead ordered to move northeast toward Bremen and Hamburg. ), Mnchen: Piper 1989, S. 858873, Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Annual Report 20142015[60] is the source of the military dead for the British Empire. [179] Estimates of Holocaust deaths range between 4.9 and 5.9million Jews.[180]. Bonn 1989 P.53 (38,000 during wartime flight; 5,000 in USSR as forced labor and 160,000 in internment camps), The Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960, pp. Ingo Haar, "Straty zwiazane z wypedzeniami: stan bada, problemy, perspektywy", Die Flucht der deutschen Bevlkerung 1944/45, "Does Germany owe Greece wartime reparations money? 1939 Press Photo American Soldiers Honoring French WWII Casualties in Nantes . Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union. pp. Germany 25,430 (24,020 post armistice); Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia 49,459 (10,090 post armistice); 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. which are attributed to an increase in natural deaths from 1940 to 1945 and 1,650 foreign nationals killed while serving in the Burma (inc. India): 163,000, 1,500, (164,500) Sankt-Peterburg 1995, Edwin Bacon, Glasnost and the Gulag: New information on Soviet forced labour around World WarII. Army GroupB had the 2nd Panzer Division in northern France, 116th Panzer Division in the Paris area, and the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy. & Jap. Andreev EM; Darsky LE; Kharkova TL, Population dynamics: consequences of regular and irregular changes. Of this total 120,000 died and 160,000 were injured in the atomic bombings, leaving 213,000 dead and 313,000 injured by conventional bombing. 360,000 dead or wounded, and 1,900,000 captured. (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. Most of these losses occurred during the Nazi organized flight and evacuation during the war, and the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union; they point out that there are 80,522 confirmed deaths in the postwar internment camps. With an introduction by Konrad Adenauer. The figures for the pre-war Jewish population and deaths in the table below are from The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. (the figures of 2.8 million Jews and 3.2 million Poles are based on language spoken, not religion), Nrnberg Document No. $19.99 + $4.99 shipping . 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. XIX Corps of the Ninth Army captured Magdeburg on 18 April and the US XIII Corps to the north occupied Stendal. Hungarian Jewish losses of 569,000 presented here include the territories annexed in 193941. [384] universitet (Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University). Historians often put forward many different estimates of the numbers killed and wounded during World War II. 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. Nazi Empire: German colonialism and imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler. WWII: Western Front Worksheets . New Guinea: 112,400, 15,200, (127,600) The war was notable for the Nazi-sponsored genocide of the Jewish peoples resulting in more than 5.9 million deaths, and the impact of "Total War" on the world's population. Both the Allies and Japanese also conscripted civilians to work as laborers and porters. The second phase consisted of large-scale ground combat (supported by a massive strategic air war considered to be an additional front), which began in June 1944 with the Allied landings in Normandy and continued until the defeat of Germany in May 1945. There were only some local, minor skirmishes. Eng. The Breskens pocket on the southern bank of the Scheldt was cleared with heavy casualties by allied forces in Operation Switchback, during the Battle of the Scheldt. The majority of the British and elements of the French forces escaped at Dunkirk. The breakout by service is as follows: Army 234,874. This page was last edited on 21 December 2022, at 04:17. It was not possible to predict where the Allies might choose to launch their invasion. Gunn, Geoffrey (2011) "The Great Vietnamese Famine of 194445 Revisited", The Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960, p. 78. The Kriegsmarine, nonetheless, suffered very heavy losses during the two months of fighting required to seize all of mainland Norway. [89], Military(Norwegian & Allied Forces) 2,000 (800 Army, 900 Navy and 100 Air). The number of deaths in the Gulag labor camps increased as a result of wartime overcrowding and food shortages. French aircraft losses were 560. Some auxiliary and civilian organizations are also accorded war grave status if death occurred under certain specified conditions. 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. 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. 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. Dutch casualties are placed at 2,890 killed or missing, 6,900 wounded, with no information provided on those captured. 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 French Ministry of Defense puts French military war dead at 200,000. Because the Allied lines had become severely stretched in response to the crisis in the Ardennes, holding and throwing back the Nordwind offensive was a costly affair that lasted almost four weeks. The Allied operations were then succeeded by the German Ardennes offensive. 20,400 killed by acts of war, 104,000 Jewish Holocaust dead, 18,000 political prisoners in Germany, 27,000 workers in Germany, While the Western Front remained quiet in April 1940, the fighting between the Allies and the Germans began in earnest with the Norwegian Campaign when the Germans launched Operation Weserbung, the German invasion of Denmark and Norway. Wars and Population. Danish Ministry of Education. (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. German casualties based on statistics collected during the war included 27,074 KIA, 18,384 MIA and 111,034 WIA. For almost two years, there was no land-fighting on the Western Front with the exception of commando raids and the guerrilla actions of the resistance aided by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and Office of Strategic Services (OSS). 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. Wounded: UK and Crown Colonies (284,049); India-(British colonial administration) (64,354), Australia (39,803); Canada (53,174); New Zealand (19,314); South Africa (14,363). Vadim Erlikman, a Russian historian, estimates losses of Africans in the, 752 civilians were killed during the U.S. air attacks on. 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. I believe that it was just as bad for Russians taken prisoners by the Germans on the Eastern front. C. Deliberate acts of reprisal against target populations were perpetrated by all combatants. 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 The names of individual U.S. military personnel killed in World War II can be found at the U.S. National Archives. p. 30 (figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), R. J. Rumell, Statistics of democide Table 3.1. Military dead were estimated with Soviet forces at 15,000 and 5,000 with German. [601] Serbian sources currently claim that 700,000 persons were murdered at Jasenovac. Germany reports. The French forces launched a small offensive, the Saar Offensive against Germany in the Saar region but halted their advance and returned. That was sometimes done if the deceased was, for example, an ammunition worker, air raid victim or a civilian worker who for some other reason died because of the war. China after Pearl Harbor 202,958 killed and 88,920 wounded. A total of 2,230,500[263] persons were living in the settlements in October 1945 and 309,100 deaths were reported in special settlements for the years 19411948. 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. [254] Michael Haynes and Rumy Husun accept the figures from the Soviet archives as being an accurate tally of Stalin's victims, they maintain that the demographic data depicts an underdeveloped Soviet economy and the losses in World War Two rather than indicating a higher death toll in the Gulag labor camps. Philippines: 377,500, 121,100, (498,600) A discussion of the famine in Java during 194445, leads Pierre van der Eng to conclude that 2.4million Indonesians perished. If the British refused to agree to a peace treaty, one option was to invade. 1993; China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations. The non-belligerent United States contributed to the Western Allies by discounted sales of military equipment and supplies. The official UK report on war casualties of June 1946 provided a summary of the UK war losses, excluding colonies. Andreev, E.M.; Darski, L.E. Andaman & Nicobar Islands: 900, 1,500, (2,400) 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 losses listed here are actual deaths; hypothetical losses due to a decline in births are not included with the total dead. $15.99 + $4.99 shipping . 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. Having been taken by surprise, the Allies regrouped and the Germans were stopped by a combined air and land counter-attack which eventually pushed them back to their starting points by 25 January 1945. Millions also died as a result of other German actions. Total casualties were 668,315 including 299,485 dead, 24,010 missing and 344,820 injured. [7][8] The Red Army claimed responsibility for the majority of Wehrmacht casualties during World War II. "Allied casualties from D-day to VE totaled 766,294. Presse- und Informationsamt. The US Seventh Army and the French First Army, making up the US 6th Army Group, rapidly consolidated this beachhead and liberated Southern France in two weeks; they then moved north up the Rhone valley. German sources do not provide figures for Soviet citizens conscripted by Germany. 2- The section Effects of Strategic Bombing on the German War Economy of October 31, 1945 put the losses at 375,000 killed and 625,000 wounded. "Battle for the Roer Triangle". In January 1945 the German bridgehead over the river Roer between Heinsberg and Roermond was cleared during Operation Blackcock. [602] Jewish victims in Yugoslavia totaled 67,122. 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The breakout by service is as follows: Army 318,274 (234,874 battle, 83,400 nonbattle). 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. In May 1940, the Germans launched the Battle of France. The military's complicity extended not only to the generals and upper leadership but also to the rank and file. These were built in anticipation of an Allied invasion of France. [259], Deported to special settlements: (figures are for deportations to Special Settlements only, not including those executed, sent to Gulag labor camps or conscripted into the Soviet Army. The greatest number of casualties and wounds were inflicted by artillery, followed by small arms, and then by poison gas. Dutch Merchant Marine. However, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, had suffered serious losses in Norway, and in order to even consider an amphibious landing, Germany's Air Force (the Luftwaffe) had to first gain air superiority or air supremacy. : -Human Losses of the USSR in the Period of WWII: Collection of Articles. (1.5million in prewar 1937 Germany, (1958) A West German government demographic study estimated 2,225,000 civilians died during the flight during the war, post war expulsions and the, (1965), The search service of the German churches and Red Cross was able to confirm 473,013 civilian deaths in eastern Europe due to the expulsions, broken out as follows: 367,392 Poland (in post war borders); 18,889, (1966) The West German Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims issued a statement that put the number of expulsion dead at 2,111,000 (1,225,000 Germany in 1937 borders, (1985) A demographic analysis which has the support of the German government, estimated 2,020,000 civilians died during the post war expulsions and the, The German government currently maintains that 2.0million civilians perished in the flight and expulsion from Eastern Europe. 4, Prague p. 57, Urlanis, Boris (1971). 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 [473], 2-United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division (1947) The bombing of Japan killed 333,000 civilians and injured 473,000. 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. Moscow, Nauka, 1993; S. N. Mikhalev, Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie, Krasnoiarskii gos. There are no reliable figures for the casualties of the Soviet Union and China, the two countries in which casualties were undoubtedly greatest. Lesser Sundas: 51,800, 1,200, (53,000) Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. Eng. [242][243], The total war dead in the USSR includes about 1million[244] victims of Stalin's regime. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale combat operations. Die deutschen Vertreibungsverluste. German scholar Hellmuth Auerbach puts the death toll in the Hitler era at 6million Jews killed in the Holocaust and 7million other victims of the Nazis. 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. By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. German government figures of war losses do not include the increase in natural deaths with war casualties. B. German forces, under express orders from Hitler, fought with a special vengeance against the Serbs, who were considered Untermensch. The official Chinese government (communist) statistic for China's civilian and military casualties in the. Figure does not include the Nazi euthanasia program, German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. Keitel is defiant at Berlin ritual. iUniverse, Inc. (July 13, 2005). [1] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered under separate headings. Over 11.4 million Soviet civilians within pre-1939 borders were killed, and another estimated 3.5 million civilians were killed in the annexed territories. 3-Included in these statistics are 322,807 POWs held by the US and UK. Totally barbarism prevailed. Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. Total: 1,647,200, 473,800, (2,121,000), Overall, perhaps two thirds of all Japanese military dead came not from combat, but from starvation and disease. The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. World War II was won on the Eastern Front. [261] [250][251] Rosefielde posits that the release of the Soviet Archive figures is disinformation generated by the modern KGB. Front, called by the people in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War, saw most of the damage in terms of military casualties, the Western Front, which encompassed Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands . Eisei Ishikawa, David L. Swain, Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Nagasaki The Physical Medical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings, Basic Books, 1981. 3,700 Dutch nationals in the German armed forces and 7,500 missing and presumed dead in Germany and 16,000 deaths German Army GroupG surrendered to US forces at Haar, in Bavaria, on 5 May. Recent studies published in Russia put the actual corrected population in 1940 at 192.598million. Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie (Human Losses in the Great Patriotic War 19411945 A Statistical Investigation). Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. Mai 1974. Military Losses by theatre of war: Italy 74,725 (37,573 post armistice); France 2,060 (1,039 post armistice); Solomon Islands: 63,200, 25,000, (88,200) Figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth place. Holocaust Encyclopedia "How many Catholics were killed during the Holocaust? The US Ninth Army, which had remained under British command since the battle of the Bulge, went south as the northern pincer of the Ruhr encirclement as well as pushing elements east. Manchuria & USSR 7,483 killed and 4,641 wounded. Since casualty statistics are sometimes disputed the footnotes to this article present the different estimates by official governmental sources as well as historians. 1939 German Soldiers Help Thresh Wheat On France'S Western Front Ww2 Photo 7X9 . By V-E Day, the US 12th Army Group was a force of four armies (First, Third, Ninth and Fifteenth) that numbered over 1.3million men. Werner Gruhl estimates China's total war losses at 15,554,000, Civilians :12,392,000 including (8,191,000) due to the Japanese brutality and military dead 3,162,000. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[236]. (this paper was a presentation at an academic conference in Warsaw Poland in 1994), Dzieje Najnowsze Rocznik XXI-1994, Herausforderung Bevlkerung: zu Entwicklungen des modernen Denkens ber die Bevlkerung vor, im und nach dem Dritten Reich, Die Toten des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Deutschland. Personelle Verluste der deutschen Bevlkerung durch Flucht und Vertreibung. 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. The preliminary data for New Zealand losses was killed 10,033, missing 2,129, wounded 19,314 and. universitet (Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University). Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the other victims persecuted and killed by the Nazis. This figure is cited in reference works dealing with World War II. If all went well XXX Corps would advance into Germany without any remaining major obstacles. 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