Civilian deaths were caused by Allied bombing and shellfire and Japanese atrocities. Navy On 4 April the encirclement was completed and the Ninth Army reverted to the command of Bradley's 12th Army Group. Missing and presumed dead(including POWs) were 131,419 (111,579 pre-armistice, 19,840 post armistice)[446] Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Military dead were estimated with Soviet forces at 15,000 and 5,000 with German. Schramm put the total at 4,188,057. 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. French aircraft losses were 560. An additional 700,000 were taken prisoner by the Soviets were 50,000 died in forced labor in the USSR and Outer Mongolia. To this must be added the 263,000655,000 who died, giving a rough total of 8 million German soldiers having served on the Western Front in 19441945. Civilians 7,500 (3,600 Merchant seaman, 1,500 resistance fighters, 1,800 civilians killed and 600 Jews killed)[94] which are attributed to an increase in natural deaths from 1940 to 1945 and 1,650 foreign nationals killed while serving in the 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). 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. "Allied casualties from D-day to VE totaled 766,294. There are no reliable figures for the casualties of the Soviet Union and China, the two countries in which casualties were undoubtedly greatest. [147] According to Yad Vashem, "During their four years in power, the Ustasa carried out a Serb genocide, exterminating over 500,000, expelling 250,000 and forcing another 200,000 to convert to Catholicism. These figures included the losses of Newfoundland and Southern Rhodesia. 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. Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2005; Gregory Frumkin. The US 6th Army Group fanned out to the southwest, passing to the east of Switzerland through Bavaria and into Austria and northern Italy.[when?] [2] According to Russian government figures, USSR losses within postwar borders now stand at 26.6million,[3][4] including 8 to 9million due to famine and disease. WWII: Western Front Worksheets . Archivalien und ausgewhlte Erlebnisberichte. (the figures of 2.8 million Jews and 3.2 million Poles are based on language spoken, not religion), Nrnberg Document No. Saint-Petersburg, 1995; (Russian Academy of Sciences). Estimated civilian deaths range from about 14 to 17 million. Krasnoiarskii gos. Deaths in battle were 292,131. [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%. The, Michael Ellman and S. Maksudov, Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War:a note World War II . 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. universitet (Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University). [244] The Soviet-era archive figures on the Gulag labor camps has been the subject of a vigorous academic debate outside Russia since their publication in 1991. 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. British casualties on the first day totalled 58,000, the worst single day loss of the war. Borneo: 11,300, 6,700, (18,000) Cuba lost 5 merchant ships and 79 merchant mariners died. On 19 August 1942, the Allies began the Dieppe Raid, an attack on Dieppe, France. (German government Statistical Office). Sakhalin, the Aleutian, and Kuril Islands: 8,200, 3,200, (11,400) 4, Prague p. 57, Urlanis, Boris (1971). The preliminary data for New Zealand losses was killed 10,033, missing 2,129, wounded 19,314 and. Royal Navy (50,758); British Army (144,079); Royal Air Force (69,606). : -Human Losses of the USSR in the Period of WWII: Collection of Articles. The details of these losses are as follows: 199,000 in. WW1 started on July 28th 1914 and ended on November 11th 1918 and it lasted 1567 days. Recent studies published in Russia put the actual corrected population in 1940 at 192.598million. 22629, journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. Long after the war, a myth persisted claiming the German military (or Wehrmacht) was not involved in the Holocaust and other crimes associated with Nazi genocidal policy. It was not possible to predict where the Allies might choose to launch their invasion. .: , 1996. These figures include military dead of 30,000 Chinese from Taiwan and 22,182 Koreans. In January 1945 the German bridgehead over the river Roer between Heinsberg and Roermond was cleared during Operation Blackcock. The port of Antwerp was liberated on 4 September by the British 11th Armoured Division. POW deaths 3,000. Operations ceased at 2301 hours Central European time (CET) on 8 May. 95% of POWs taken by the Germans on the Western front survived. 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. 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Japan proper 10,543 killed and 6,782 wounded. Tokyo, July 1948. p.20, Japan Statistical Year-Book, 1949 [etc.]. Presse- und Informationsamt. The bulk of the Allied armies were occupied in the Mediterranean, seeking to clear the sea lanes to the Indian Ocean and capture the Foggia Airfield Complex. Included with total war dead are victims of Japanese war crimes. Routledge. The footnotes give a detailed breakdown of the casualties and their sources, including data on the number of wounded where reliable sources are available. In Episode 3 we take apart the most gruesome battles seen on the Western Front, North African Campaign and Middle Eastern Operations. Allies United StatesUnited Kingdom Ingo Haar, "Straty zwiazane z wypedzeniami: stan bada, problemy, perspektywy", Die Flucht der deutschen Bevlkerung 1944/45, "Does Germany owe Greece wartime reparations money? 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. In Operation Eclipse, the 17th Airborne Division, 82d Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division, and a British brigade were to seize the Tempelhof, Rangsdorf, Gatow, Staaken, and Oranienburg airfields. 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. They reported, "The total number who were killed by the Japanese, or who died from, hunger, disease and lack of medical attention is estimated at 3,000,000 for Java alone, 1,000,000 for the Outer Islands. (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. [nb 12] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered as separate theatres. Bilanz der Forschung unter besonderer Bercksichtigung der Wehrmacht- und Vertreibungsverluste, in: Der Zweite Weltkrieg. The United Nations reported in 1947 that "about 30,000 Europeans and 300,000 Indonesian internees and forced laborers died during the occupation." ), The Japanese Ministry of Welfare and Foreign Office reported from 1951 to 1960 that 254,000 military personnel and civilians were confirmed dead and 95,000 went missing in Soviet hands after the war. 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. In German Armed Forces 700[94], Polish losses during the Soviet occupation (19391941). Losses by branch of service: Army 201,405; Navy 22,034; Air Force 9,096; Colonial Forces 354; Chaplains 91; Fascist militia The main Allied attack on the western front in 1916. During World War II, 1.2million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. Military casualties include deaths of regular military forces from combat as well as non-combat causes. Archivalien und ausgewhlte Erlebnisberichte. Gruhl estimates POW deaths in Japanese captivity at 331,584. On that same day Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, as head of OKW and Jodl's superior, was brought to Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Karlshorst and signed another instrument of surrender that was essentially identical to that signed in Rheims with two minor additions requested by the Soviets. 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. The estimated breakdown for each Soviet republic of total war dead[10]^AY4. pp. Total losses reached an estimated 400,000 men. Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945 Transaction 2007, Ho Ping-ti. Military Losses by theatre of war: Italy 74,725 (37,573 post armistice); France 2,060 (1,039 post armistice); Unlike other parts of South East Asia, Thailand did not suffer from famine during the war. The death toll attributable to the flight and expulsions was estimated at 2.2million by the West German government in 1958. Military losses with USSR against Japan in the 1939, During World War II Japan occupied Nauru in August 1942 and deported 1,200. 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. The Finnish National Archives website's database lists the names of the 94,676 Finnish war dead between 1939 and 1945. The German Army Group B commanded by Field Marshal Walther Model was trapped in the Ruhr Pocket and 300,000 soldiers became POWs. [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. Dutch Military losses in Asia were 2,500 killed in the 1942. The first phase saw the capitulation of Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium, and France during May and June 1940 after their defeat in the Low Countries and the northern half of France, and continued into an air war between Germany and Britain that climaxed with the Battle of Britain. [384] 21st Army Group was then instead ordered to move northeast toward Bremen and Hamburg. 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 tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses. These figures are for Germany in 1937 borders. [245] The Stalin regime deported the entire populations of ethnic minorities considered to be potentially disloyal. An estimated total of 7085 million people perished, or about 3% of the 2.3 billion (est.) No sure count of even the prepaid populations existed. However, as the breakout took place during Operation Cobra at the western end of the bridge-head, the 21st Army Group that included the British and Canadian forces swung east and headed for Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern Germany, while the U.S. Twelfth Army Group advanced to their south via eastern France, Luxembourg and the Ruhr Area, rapidly fanning out into a broad front. [nb 13]. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth place. Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Warsaw 2009; Poland. 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. When scholarly sources differ on the number of deaths in a country, a range of war losses is given, in order to inform readers that the death toll is disputed. UK total casualties were 68,111 including 11,000 KIA. Ingo Haar, "Hochgerechnetes Unglck, Die Zahl der deutschen Opfer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird bertrieben", Rdiger Overmans- "Personelle Verluste der deutschen Bevlkerung durch Flucht und Vertreibung". New Guinea: 112,400, 15,200, (127,600) Moscow, Nauka, 1993; S. N. Mikhalev, Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie, Krasnoiarskii gos. Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. Demographic Research, Vol. 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. On the Eastern front, it was just the opposite; 5% of Germans taken prisoner by the Russians survived. [Tokyo], 1949, pp. "[384], Civilians killed in 1945 military campaign, Deaths due to Nazi political, racial and religious persecution, Expulsion and flight of ethnic Germans The Australian government does not regard. 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". As the Allies advanced across France, their supply lines stretched to breaking point. Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. [246] Since 1990 Russian scholars have been given access to the Soviet-era archives and have published data on the numbers of people executed and those who died in Gulag labor camps and prisons. 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. While the U.S. Ninth and First Armies held their ground from Magdeburg through Leipzig to western Czechoslovakia, Eisenhower ordered three Allied field armies (1st French, and the U.S. But Nazi Germany's military position had been hopeless ever since she had failed to drive the Allied forces into the sea on D-Day. Retrieved 4 March 2016. General Franz Bhme announced the unconditional surrender of German troops in Norway. Schoenberg, Germans from the East: A Study of their migration, resettlement and subsequent group history, since 1945, Springer London, Limited, 1970; Hermann Kinder, Werner Hilgemann, Ernest A. Menze, Anchor Atlas of World History, Vol. For the purposes of CWGC the dates of inclusion for Commonwealth War Dead are 3 September 1939 to 31 December 1947. An earlier estimate made in 1987 by Franciszek Proch of the Polish Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi and Soviet Concentration Camps estimated the total dead due to the Soviet occupation at 1,050,000. At the Maginot Line on the other side of the border, French troops stood facing them, whilst the British Expeditionary Force and other elements of the French Army created a defensive line along the Belgian border. Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960, p. 78. Hungarian Jewish losses of 569,000 presented here include the territories annexed in 193941. 39,929 Casualties For four brutal years, the Allies had been fighting the central powers, the Empires of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Deaths due to air and V-rocket attacks were 60,595 civilians and 1,206 British Home Guard. 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. This belief is untrue. [477]. The US Third Army had fanned out to the east into western Czechoslovakia and southeast into eastern Bavaria and northern Austria. Solomon Islands: 63,200, 25,000, (88,200) Universe, Inc. (July 13, 2005). In addition, the war and genocidal policy were inextricably linked. Entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties during attacks and counter-attacks and no significant advances were made. Following two months of slow fighting in hedgerow country, Operation Cobra allowed the Americans to break out at the western end of the lodgement. 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. [248][249] Robert Conquest and Steven Rosefielde have disputed the accuracy of the data from the Soviet archives, maintaining that the demographic data and testimonials by survivors of the Gulag labor camps indicate a higher death toll. The Japanese interned 105,530 Dutch civilians in the East Indies, of whom 13,567 died. 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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). Altogether 35,000 of the 240,000 Europeans died; most of them were men of working age.". The deception plans, Operation Fortitude and Operation Bodyguard, had the Germans convinced that the invasion would occur in the Pas-de-Calais, while the real target was Normandy. For the 19411944 Soviet military formation, see, Battles for Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, Ultimately under the command of Field Marshal, Interlude between 25 June 1940 to 6 June 1944. I believe that it was just as bad for Russians taken prisoners by the Germans on the Eastern front. Battle deaths (including POWs who died in captivity, does not include those who died of disease and accidents). German sources do not provide figures for Soviet citizens conscripted by Germany. [262] An American studies states that based off a sample of 12000+ Allied tank casualties from all theaters of WWII 54% of casualties were the result of gunfire. Moluccas: 2,600, 1,800, (4,400) 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. (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. Lesser Sundas: 51,800, 1,200, (53,000) [39], The US 12th Army Group fanned out, and the First Army went north as the southern pincer of the Ruhr encirclement. by Konrad Adenauer. As it was the first major German city to face capture, Hitler ordered that the city be held at all costs. 3133 (they give figure of 300,000 German deaths due to racial, religious and political persecution including 170,000 Jews. 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. Thailand: 6,900, 100, (7,000) A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis. 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. Warsaw 1947. USSR 82,079 (3,522 post armistice); Africa 22,341 (1,565 post armistice), at sea 28,438 (5,526 post armistice); 105658, Tables 608-09, Japan Statistical Year-Book, 1949 [etc.]. There were 1,536 deaths among the 13,996 interned civilians in 194245. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. 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 2006, Christoph Bergner, Secretary of State in, A 2005 report by the German government search service put the death toll at 2,251,500, they did not provide details of the figure. 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. Belgian casualties are placed at 7,500 killed or missing, 15,850 wounded, and 200,000 captured. A. 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