Many civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation. Moscow Page 294. A discussion of the famine in Java during 194445, leads Pierre van der Eng to conclude that 2.4million Indonesians perished. An estimated 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 people died during World War II. Elements of the US 3rd Infantry Division were the first Allied troops to arrive at Berchtesgaden, which they secured, while the French 2nd Armoured Division seized the Berghof (Hitler's Alpine residence) on 4 May 1945. 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. universitet (Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University). In May 1940, the Germans launched the Battle of France. 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. other overseas 23,388 killed and 0 wounded. U.S. 33 Swedish sailors were killed when submarine HMS Ulven was sunk by a German mine on April 16, 1943. The attack started on 16 December in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge. HEC No. Routledge. German Federal Archive Spieler, Silke. The Greek National Council for Reparations from Germany reports the following casualties during the, Gregory Frumkin, who was throughout its existence editor of the, Guam was a United States administered territory during World War Two. ^BF United States [nb 13]. 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. WW1 started on July 28th 1914 and ended on November 11th 1918 and it lasted 1567 days. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. On 1 September 1939, World War II began with the German invasion of Poland. Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961 pp. Out of 60,000 Indian Army POWs taken at the Fall of Singapore, 11,000 died in captivity. 21st Army Group was then instead ordered to move northeast toward Bremen and Hamburg. The British used the Egyptian army to guard lines of communication and to clear minefields. The Italian front is considered a separate but related theater. Gurkha casualties can be broken down as: 8,985 killed or missing and 23,655 wounded. 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. The attack was the debut of the Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front and, according to McMullin, "the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history". The majority of the British and elements of the French forces escaped at Dunkirk. Burma (inc. India): 163,000, 1,500, (164,500) Using this definition, the total number of. [448], Key: Location, Army dead, Navy dead, (Total dead) 95% of POWs taken by the Germans on the Western front survived. Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. The Japanese interned 105,530 Dutch civilians in the East Indies, of whom 13,567 died. Merchant Navy (30,248); British Home Guard (1,206) and Civilians (60,595). (International Population Statistics Reports series P-90, No. The Black Forest and Baden were overrun by the French First Army.[when?] Total killed were 93,326 (72,291 with Axis and 21,035 with Allies). 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. The Austrian government provides the following information on human losses during the rule of the Nazis. H.W. 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. Under the onslaught in both the north and south of France, the German Army fell back. [245] The Stalin regime deported the entire populations of ethnic minorities considered to be potentially disloyal. 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. [384] 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. Lesser Sundas: 51,800, 1,200, (53,000) , , ed. Mai 1974. 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). Moscow 1971, p. 294, Poyer, Lin; Falgout, Suzanne; Carucci, Laurence Marshall. 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. 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. 7879, German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. [415][416][417][418][419][420][421][422], Military war dead After the reoccupation by the USSR, 5,000 Estonians died in Soviet prisons during 194445. Total deaths from 1940 to 1953 due to the war and the Soviet occupation were approximately 83,000 persons (7.3% of the population). Forced laborers in Southeast Asia: 70,000, 30,000 interned non-Asian civilians, The number killed in action was 2,303,320; died of wounds, disease or accidents 500,165; 11,000 sentenced to death by court martial; 2,007,571. These figures (cited below) are based on necessarily rough estimates".[208]. 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). This was followed by a pincer movement of the First Canadian Army in Operation Veritable advancing from the Nijmegen area of the Netherlands, and the US Ninth Army crossing the Roer in Operation Grenade. Java: 2,700, 3,800, (6,500) On 7 May at his headquarters in Rheims, Eisenhower took the unconditional surrender of all German forces to the western Allies and the Soviet Union,[44] from the German Chief-of-Staff, General Alfred Jodl, who signed the first general instrument of surrender at 0241 hours. 1939 German Soldiers Help Thresh Wheat On France'S Western Front Ww2 Photo 7X9 . Military war dead reported by Rdiger Overmans of 261,000 are included with Germany. POW deaths 3,000. The culmination of Allied counter-attacks restored the front line to the area of the German border and collapsed the Colmar Pocket. p. 273; Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito, Ishikida, Miki (2005). The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. Martin Gilbert estimates 5.7million (78%) of the 7.3million Jews in German-occupied Europe were Holocaust victims. Not Included in the figure of 210,000 war dead are 70,000 "indirect war casualties", British casualties on the first day totalled 58,000, the worst single day loss of the war. (1950) The West German government made a preliminary estimate of 3.0million civilian deaths in the expulsions. 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. Merchant Navy (530); British Home Guard (0) and Civilians (0). The non-belligerent United States contributed to the Western Allies by discounted sales of military equipment and supplies. 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. in Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Before 1991. 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 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. Total U.S. military deaths in battle and from other causes were 407,316. Hope yall enjoy!Buy us . ^I China In January 1945 the German bridgehead over the river Roer between Heinsberg and Roermond was cleared during Operation Blackcock. Rdiger Overmans writes "It seems entirely plausible, while not provable, that one half of the 1.5 million missing on the eastern front were killed in action, the other half (700,000) however in fact died in Soviet custody". Tokyo, July 1948. p.20, Japan Statistical Year-Book, 1949 [etc.]. vs. Australia 199,511 killed and 15,000 wounded. Eng. 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. Seventh and Third Armies) into southeastern Germany and Austria. Soon after, the Allies were racing across France. "Gunfire" includes tanks of course, but also includes AT Guns, StuGs, other SPGs, and artillery pieces. The Nazis exterminated one to two million Soviet Jews (including the annexed territories) as part of the Holocaust. 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. The U.S. Bureau of the Census published a report in 1954 that concluded that Yugoslav war-related deaths were 1,067,000. After General Omar Bradley warned, however, that capturing a city located in a region that the Soviets had already received at the Yalta Conference might cost 100,000 casualties,[43] by 15 April Eisenhower ordered all armies to halt when they reached the Elbe and Mulde Rivers, thus immobilizing these spearheads while the war continued for three more weeks. 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. The number of deaths in the Gulag labor camps increased as a result of wartime overcrowding and food shortages. 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. Vertreibungsgebieten stlich von Oder und Neie. Royal Navy (50,758); British Army (144,079); Royal Air Force (69,606). With an introd. 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Entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties during attacks and counter-attacks and no significant advances were made. Civilian war dead are included with the nations where they resided. 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. Eng. 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. According to Sergei Maksudov, a Russian demographer living in the west, the population of the territories annexed by the USSR was 23million less the net population transfers out of 3million persons who emigrated from the USSR including 2,136,000 Poles who left the USSR; 115,000 Polish soldiers of the, Polish sources put the number of refugees from the. A. [89], Military(Norwegian & Allied Forces) 2,000 (800 Army, 900 Navy and 100 Air). 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). Total missing and POW were 341,765 (283,322 with Axis and 58,443 with Allies), only about 80,000 survived Soviet captivity. Albanian official statistics claim somewhat higher losses. (1998) A German demographic study estimated 5,500,000 to 6,900,000 war dead. In Episode 3 we take apart the most gruesome battles seen on the Western Front, North African Campaign and Middle Eastern Operations. Russian historian. Included in the figures of total war dead for each nation are victims of the Holocaust. They estimated German casualties up until April 30, 1945, at 2,230,324 dead, 2,870,404 missing and POW held by Allies. 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. Holocaust Encyclopedia "Jehovah's Witnesses", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Encyclopedia: "Freemasonry Under the Nazi Regime", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ), (1945) The casualty figures compiled by the. 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. Detailed by country: Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian deaths at 20,365,000. The local, According to an official U.S. report during the. Some 40 Irish citizens were killed by accidental, The Italian government issued an accounting of the war dead in 1957, they broke out the losses before and after the, Military losses in Italy after the September 1943. 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. For the purposes of CWGC the dates of inclusion for Commonwealth War Dead are 3 September 1939 to 31 December 1947. 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. 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". E. Bruce Reynolds, "Aftermath of Alliance: The Wartime Legacy in Thai-Japanese Relations". Philippines military losses were 57,000 including 7,000 KIA in 194142 campaign, 8,000 guerrillas KIA 194245 and 42,000 POWs(out of 98,000). The names of U.S. Routledge. ): Legenden, Lgen, Vorurteile. 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). Data from this document is listed in, Schimitzek, Stanislaw, Truth or Conjecture? If all went well XXX Corps would advance into Germany without any remaining major obstacles. They encircled around 200,000 Germans in the Falaise Pocket. 19401991 Tallinn 2005. Aufl., 1. 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. 3-Included in these statistics are 322,807 POWs held by the US and UK. Mentally and Physically Handicapped: Victims of the Nazi Era", Bundesarchiv: Euthanasie-Verbrechen 19391945, "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths and wounded caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject. XIX Corps of the Ninth Army captured Magdeburg on 18 April and the US XIII Corps to the north occupied Stendal. [179] Estimates of Holocaust deaths range between 4.9 and 5.9million Jews.[180]. Lennart Lundberg Handelsflottan under andra vrldskriget, p. 9. [Tokyo], 1949, pp. [602] Jewish victims in Yugoslavia totaled 67,122. According to the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare Japanese war dead (193745) totaled 3.1million persons including 2.3million soldiers and Army/Navy civilian employees, 500,000 civilians in Japan and 300,000 civilians living outside of Japan. The breakout by service is as follows: Army 318,274 (234,874 battle, 83,400 nonbattle). World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in terms of total dead, with some 75 million people casualties including military and civilians, or around 3% of the world's population at the time. World War II was won on the Eastern Front. western front ww2 casualties. Ursprnge, Arten und Folgen des Konstrukts "Bevlkerung" vor, im und nach dem "Dritten Reich" Zur Geschichte der deutschen Bevlkerungswissenschaft: Hans Sperling, Die Luftkriegsverluste whrend des zweiten Weltkriegs in Deutschland, Wirtschaft und Statistik October 1956, journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. : -Human Losses of the USSR in the Period of WWII: Collection of Articles. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth place. The Japanese government figures for POW deaths are not in agreement with Soviet figures. The Americans accidentally bombed neutral Switzerland during the war causing civilian casualties. 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. 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. [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. Germany (West). Toward Peace: War Responsibility, Postwar Compensation, and Peace Movements and Education in Japan. 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. 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. 2223, . Germans played for time in Reims. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the other victims persecuted and killed by the Nazis. The Red Ball Express, the Allied trucking effort, was simply unable to transport enough supplies from the port facilities in Normandy all the way to the front line, which by September, was close to the German border. Bilanz der Forschung unter besonderer Bercksichtigung der Wehrmacht- und Vertreibungsverluste, in: Der Zweite Weltkrieg. Merchant Mariners killed in World War II are listed by USMM.org. D. The systematic extermination of large numbers of people for political, religious or racial reasons. (1993). Manchuria: 45,900, 800, (46,700) Philippines: 377,500, 121,100, (498,600) Germany (West). The hardest hit localities were Podgorica, Leskovac, Zadar and Belgrade. 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By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (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. 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. p. 30. In November, however, the German front snapped under the pressure, resulting in sudden Allied advances that liberated Belfort, Mulhouse, and Strasbourg, and placed Allied forces along the Rhine River. The Phoney War was an early phase of World War II marked by a few military operations in Continental Europe in the months following the German invasion of Poland and preceding the Battle of France. 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. in Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Before 1991. In addition the civilian population was conscripted by the Japanese as forced laborers and were subjected to numerous mindless atrocities. Thomas M. Leonard, John F. Bratzel, George Lauderbaugh. 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. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. ^S Germany Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961, p. 32, Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960 Bonn 1961 p. 78, available online at. Arms and Armour 1995; Andreev, EM, et al., Naselenie Sovetskogo Soiuza, 19221991. universitet, 2000; (Russian Academy of Sciences). Saint-Petersburg, 1995; (Russian Academy of Sciences). MacDonald, C (2005), The Last Offensive: The European Theater of Operations. [1] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered under separate headings. However, much was learned as a result of the operation these lessons would be put to good use in the subsequent invasion. "United States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report United States Government Printing Office Washington: 1946 p. 20", United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division, "United States Strategic Bombing Survey The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki United States Government Printing Office Washington: 1946, p. 15", "R.J. Rummel "Statistics of democide: Genocide and Mass Murder since 1900" Transaction 1998; ISBN 3-8258-4010-7 (Chapter 3)", "Allied Merchant Navy Memorial in Newfoundland", "Gordon, Maj. Richard M., (U.S. Army, retired) (28 October 2002). Newfoundland lost 1,089 persons with U.K. and Canadian Forces during the war. UK casualties include losses of the colonial forces. C. Deliberate acts of reprisal against target populations were perpetrated by all combatants. Manchuria & USSR 7,483 killed and 4,641 wounded. UK total casualties were 68,111 including 11,000 KIA. Civilian war dead were approximately 2,100, French military war of 210,000 dead include 150,000 regular forces (193940. 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. South of the Ardennes, American forces fought from September until mid-December to push the Germans out of Lorraine and from behind the Siegfried Line. 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). The following notes summarize German casualties, the details are presented in German casualties in World War II. Cuba lost 5 merchant ships and 79 merchant mariners died. 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