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?] British forces captured Bremen on 26 April after a week of combat. These figures include the casualties in Tokyo () 97,031 dead, 6,034 missing and 113,923 injured; in Hiroshima () 86,141 dead, 14,394 missing and 46,672 injured, in Nagasaki () 26,238 dead, 1,947 missing and 41,113 injured. After the reoccupation by the USSR, 16,000 Estonians died in Soviet repressions during 194453. Vietnamese sources put the number of deaths during the 194445 famine in North Vietnam at between 1 and 2million. Malaya & Singapore: 8,500, 2,900, (11,400) Figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth place. D. The systematic extermination of large numbers of people for political, religious or racial reasons. 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. Sumatra: 2,700, 500, (3,200) Von Rundstedt's divisions, which had remained on the west bank, were cut to pieces in the ''battle of the Rhineland' 280,000 men were taken prisoner. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21-25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. (figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961 pp. [392] English language sources put the death toll at 2 to 3million based on the West German government statistical analysis of the 1950s. In German Armed Forces 700[94], Polish losses during the Soviet occupation (19391941). Of these, approximately 330,000 were fatalities. [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. 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The Survey believes the dead at Hiroshima to have been between 70,000 and 80,000, with an equal number injured; at Nagasaki over 35,000 dead and somewhat more than that injured seems the most plausible estimate. The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. [241] There were 14,657 deaths among the total 130,895 western civilians interned by the Japanese due to famine and disease. 1939 Press Photo American Soldiers Honoring French WWII Casualties in Nantes . Mai 1974. "Bataan, Corregidor, and the Death March: In Retrospect", "go to note on Polish Casualties by Tadeusz Piotrowski at the bottom of the page", "Victims of the Nazi Regime-Database of Polish citizens repressed under the German Occupation", Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2013-2014, "Michael Ellman and S. 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[38] British and Canadian paratroopers reached the Baltic city of Wismar just ahead of Soviet forces on 2 May. Military operations between the occupying German military forces and their "Quislings and collaborators" against the Yugoslav resistance. These were built in anticipation of an Allied invasion of France. UK casualties include losses of the colonial forces. Original emissaries had no authority to surrender to any of the Allies. As this was the strategy favoured by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and most of the American high command, it was soon adopted. 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. Fighting began with Operation Weserbung, the German invasion of Denmark and Norway, in April, 1940. [260] In August 1941, 243,106 Poles living in the Special Settlements were amnestied and released by the Soviets. 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. 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. 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. [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. [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). Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. 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. The number of deaths in the Gulag labor camps increased as a result of wartime overcrowding and food shortages. 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. The 1939 Population for Germany within 1937 borders, Foreign nationals of German ancestry in the countries of, (1949) The West German Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office)estimated total war dead of 5,483,000; (3,250,000)military; (500,000) civilians killed in bombing raids and the land campaign; (1,533,000) deaths in the expulsions from Poland and (200,000) victims of Nazi racial, religious or political persecution. In Episode 3 we take apart the most gruesome battles seen on the Western Front, North African Campaign and Middle Eastern Operations. Defending the Ardennes were troops of the US First Army. Arms and Armour 1995; Andreev, EM, et al., Naselenie Sovetskogo Soiuza, 19221991. 3). Korea: 19,600, 6,900, (26,500) The Netherlands War Graves Foundation maintains a registry of the names of Dutch war dead. Germany: 157,621 casualties (27,074 dead (The final count of the German dead is possibly as high as 49,000 men when including the losses suffered by the Kriegsmarine, because of additional non-combat causes, the wounded who died of their injuries, and the missing who were confirmed as dead. 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. The additions were the annexation of the, Estimates in the west for the population transfers differ. Research in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused a revision of estimates of Soviet World War II fatalities. Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. Andaman & Nicobar Islands: 900, 1,500, (2,400) The figures for the pre-war Jewish population and deaths in the table below are from The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. Cuba lost 5 merchant ships and 79 merchant mariners died. 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. R. J. Rummel estimates the civilian victims of Japanese democide at 5,964,000. Merchant Navy (530); British Home Guard (0) and Civilians (0). Total war dead of 357,116; Navy (50,758); Army (144,079); Air Force (69,606); Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (624); which are attributed to an increase in natural deaths from 1940 to 1945 and 1,650 foreign nationals killed while serving in the 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). According to Norwegian government sources the war dead were 10,200. 1993; China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale combat operations. Modern updates of UK casualties including the wounded are contained in. Nazi Empire: German colonialism and imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler. World War 2 was the bloodiest conflict in human history. 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. Aiming to recapture Strasbourg, the Germans attacked the 6th Army Group at multiple points. Mai 1974. During the push east, the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Magdeburg, Halle and Leipzig were strongly defended by ad hoc German garrisons made up of regular troops, Flak units, Volkssturm and armed Nazi Party auxiliaries. Germany reports. Army GroupB had the 2nd Panzer Division in northern France, 116th Panzer Division in the Paris area, and the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy. With the Luftwaffe unable to defeat the RAF in the Battle of Britain, the invasion of Great Britain could no longer be thought of as an option. 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. 95% of POWs taken by the Germans on the Western front survived. Two early British raids for which battle honours were awarded were Operation Collar in Boulogne (24 June 1940) and Operation Ambassador in Guernsey (1415 July 1940). The 1949 report of the Japanese government Economic Stabilization Board detailed the casualties caused by air raids and sea bombardment. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hg. 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. [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. World War 2's Eastern Front From Stalingrad To Berlin In 48 Photos How The Eastern Front Decided World War II Published August 11, 2019 Updated August 20, 2019 The Nazis suffered 80 percent of their casualties on World War II's Eastern Front, the deadliest theater in the history of war. 105657, Table 607. [384] Moscow, Nauka, 1993; S. N. Mikhalev, Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie, Krasnoiarskii gos. Ein Wrterbuch zur Zeitgeschichte. Eng. F. Allied bombing of German supply lines caused civilian casualties. 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. Operations ceased at 2301 hours Central European time (CET) on 8 May. H.W. 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. 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. [179] Estimates of Holocaust deaths range between 4.9 and 5.9million Jews.[180]. Warsaw 1947. The breakout by service is as follows: Army 318,274 (234,874 battle, 83,400 nonbattle). Germany reports. 19401959 [The Population of Russia in the 20thcentury: volume2], May Rocznik Statystyczny Polski 19391941, Since the Czech Republic as political entity exists only since 1969/1993, this political name stands for Czech part (. 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. Java: 2,700, 3,800, (6,500) 105658, Tables 608-09, Japan Statistical Year-Book, 1949 [etc.]. Military Losses by theatre of war: Italy 74,725 (37,573 post armistice); France 2,060 (1,039 post armistice); Statistics on the number of military wounded are included whenever available. 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. The official figures for military war dead and missing in 194145 are 8,668,400 comprising 6,329,600 combat related deaths, 555,500 non-combat deaths. 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. Germany reports. They maintain that figures related to flight and expulsion have been manipulated by the German government due to political pressure. 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. [1] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered under separate headings. Among the Allied powers, the U.S.S.R. suffered the greatest total number of dead: perhaps 18,000,000. The United Nations reported in 1947 that "about 30,000 Europeans and 300,000 Indonesian internees and forced laborers died during the occupation." in Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Before 1991. 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. Army Since the collapse of the USSR, Polish scholars have been able to do research in the Soviet archives on Polish losses during the Soviet occupation. World War II was won on the Eastern Front. Formosa (Taiwan): 28,500, 10,600, (39,100) 360,000 dead or wounded, and 1,900,000 captured. The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World WarII. Total casualties were 668,315 including 299,485 dead, 24,010 missing and 344,820 injured. Since casualty statistics are sometimes disputed the footnotes to this article present the different estimates by official governmental sources as well as historians. The exact number of dead and injured will never be known because of the confusion after the explosions. Not Included in the figure of 210,000 war dead are 70,000 "indirect war casualties", 73538. ), Mnchen: Piper 1989, S. 858873, Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito. After years of war, the United Kingdom and France were exhausted. Field Marshal Montgomery took the German military surrender of all German forces in The Netherlands, northwest Germany and Denmark on Lneburg Heath, an area between the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen, on 4 May 1945. 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded. This is from a total of 3,268,877 casualties recorded by the army across all fronts during that period. The Hahn's believe the official German figure of 2million deaths is an historical myth, lacking foundation. Some parishes continued burying in the Second World War military cemeteries up to the 1980s. In turn, it commanded three groups: the Wehrmacht Netherlands Command (Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Niederlande) or WBN, covering the Dutch and Belgian coasts and Army Group B, covering the coast of northern France with the German 15th Army (HQ in Tourcoing), in the area north of the Seine; the 7th Army, (HQ in Le Mans), between the Seine and the Loire defending the English Channel and the Atlantic coast, and Army Group G with responsibility for the Bay of Biscay coast and Vichy France, with its 1st Army, (HQ in Bordeaux), responsible for the Atlantic coast between the Loire and the Spanish border and the 19th Army, (HQ in Avignon), responsible for the Mediterranean coast. The German Army Group B commanded by Field Marshal Walther Model was trapped in the Ruhr Pocket and 300,000 soldiers became POWs. Data from this document is listed in, Schimitzek, Stanislaw, Truth or Conjecture? An estimated 5,800,000 Poles died, which was 20 percent of Poland's prewar population. western front ww2 casualties. 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. Recent historical scholarship has shed new light on the topic of Second World War casualties. A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis. : -Human Losses of the USSR in the Period of WWII: Collection of Articles. The Eastern Front, which stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, was more than twice as long as the Western Front. German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. However, at least one historian has compared the 1943 famine there to the, The war dead of 11,907 listed here are those reported by the, The preliminary 1945 data for South African losses was killed 6,840, missing 1,841 wounded 14,363 and, This territory includes areas now known as the. Borneo: 11,300, 6,700, (18,000) World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70-85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 2.3 billion (est.) 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded. In this uncertain situation, estimates of casualties have generally ranged between 100,000 and 180,000 for Hiroshima, and between 50,000 and 100,000 for Nagasaki. by Konrad Adenauer. Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961, p. 32, Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960 Bonn 1961 p. 78, available online at. The Commission determined that the demographic estimates by the German government counted as missing 90,000 ethnic Germans assimilated into the Czech population; military deaths were understated and that the 1950 census data used to compute the demographic losses was unreliable. Belgian casualties are placed at 7,500 killed or missing, 15,850 wounded, and 200,000 captured. 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. Total German casualties between September 1939 to 31 December 1944, on the Western Front for both the army, Waffen SS, and foreign volunteers amounts to 128,030 killed, 399,860 wounded. Dutch casualties are placed at 2,890 killed or missing, 6,900 wounded, with no information provided on those captured. The offensive ended with Arnhem remaining in German hands and the Allies holding an extended salient from the Belgian border to the area between Nijmegen and Arnhem. Eng. pedagog. 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). Italian losses amounted to 1,250 killed or missing, 4,780 wounded, and no information is provided on any who were captured. The next month, the Germans launched the Battle of France . The Ninth and First American armies then turned east and pushed to the Elbe river by mid-April. ): Legenden, Lgen, Vorurteile. Krasnoiarskii gos. Veritable and Grenade were planned to start on 8 February 1945, but Grenade was delayed by two weeks when the Germans flooded the Roer valley by destroying the gates of the Rur Dam upstream. [262] [415][416][417][418][419][420][421][422], Military 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. Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. Casualties in 193940 include the following dead and missing: The number of wounded includes 2,576,000 permanently disabled. Under Japanese internment, 992 died and another 544 were listed as "unknown"; under German internment, 168 died and a further 715 were listed as "unknown". Keitel is defiant at Berlin ritual. 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. The French forces launched a small offensive, the Saar Offensive against Germany in the Saar region but halted their advance and returned. The Greek government is planning to claim reparations from Germany for war damages. The Austrian government provides the following information on human losses during the rule of the Nazis. The New York Times. With an introduction by Konrad Adenauer. Civilians in Navy service 114,493 killed and 1,880 wounded and missing. [245] The Stalin regime deported the entire populations of ethnic minorities considered to be potentially disloyal. 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. Germany (West). Vertreibungsgebieten stlich von Oder und Neie. 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. In addition the civilian population was conscripted by the Japanese as forced laborers and were subjected to numerous mindless atrocities. The losses listed here are actual deaths; hypothetical losses due to a decline in births are not included with the total dead. 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. Bevlkerungsbilanzen fr die deutschen Vertreibungsgebiete 1939/50.Herausgeber: Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1958. 7879, German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. p. 252, Waller Wynne, Population of Czechoslovakia. 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. people on Earth in 1940. 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. Germany (West). [247] The Russian scholar Viktor Zemskov puts the death toll from 1941 to 1945 at about 1million based on data from the Soviet archives. Germany (West). Dutch Military losses in Asia were 2,500 killed in the 1942. Military dead were estimated with Soviet forces at 15,000 and 5,000 with German. [147] According to U.S. War Department figures, 18,745 American civilians were interned in the war (13,996 in the Far East and 4,749 in Europe). 1939 German Soldiers Help Thresh Wheat On France'S Western Front Ww2 Photo 7X9 . [1] Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 5056million, with an additional estimated 1928million deaths from war-related disease and famine. mark howard net worth, the statue of liberty for one crossword clue, cuanto mide ari la novia de luisito comunica, Federal western front ww2 casualties, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948 and 79 merchant mariners died Press, p.. 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