[38] British and Canadian paratroopers reached the Baltic city of Wismar just ahead of Soviet forces on 2 May. Total missing and POW were 341,765 (283,322 with Axis and 58,443 with Allies), only about 80,000 survived Soviet captivity. Japan Proper: 58,100, 45,800, (103,900) The war dead totals listed in the report are based on the research by the CWGC to identify and commemorate Commonwealth war dead. [384] 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. (figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). The port of Antwerp was liberated on 4 September by the British 11th Armoured Division. HEC No. [415][416][417][418][419][420][421][422], Military war dead Missing and presumed dead(including POWs) were 131,419 (111,579 pre-armistice, 19,840 post armistice)[446] 3). The US Third Army had fanned out to the east into western Czechoslovakia and southeast into eastern Bavaria and northern Austria. These figures are for Germany in 1937 borders. If all went well XXX Corps would advance into Germany without any remaining major obstacles. POW deaths 3,000. Ministero della Difesa Edizioni 1986 (in Italian). 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. The military's complicity extended not only to the generals and upper leadership but also to the rank and file. "Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Netherlands" (PDF). The estimated breakdown for each Soviet republic of total war dead[10]^AY4. Many civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation. [473], 2-United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division (1947) The bombing of Japan killed 333,000 civilians and injured 473,000. Michael Haynes, Counting Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War: a Note Europe Asia Studies Vol. Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, urged Eisenhower to continue the advance toward Berlin by the 21st Army Group, under the command of Montgomery with the intention of capturing the city. 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. A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis. 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". [260] In August 1941, 243,106 Poles living in the Special Settlements were amnestied and released by the Soviets. The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy [citation needed], and Germany. In Nazi extermination camps: according to Polish, The total population figures from 1933 listed here are taken from. They maintain that figures related to flight and expulsion have been manipulated by the German government due to political pressure. Some 40,000 Roma were murdered. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[236]. The figures for the pre-war Jewish population and deaths in the table below are from The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust. Deported from annexed territories 194041 380,000 to 390,000 persons, including: Poland 309312,000; Lithuania 17,500; Latvia 17,000; Estonia 6,000; Moldova 22,842. Each army group was allocated its mobile reserves. The plan called Wacht am Rhein ("Watch on the Rhine") was to attack through the Ardennes and swing north to Antwerp, splitting the American and British armies. An estimated 5,800,000 Poles died, which was 20 percent of Poland's prewar population. Research in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused a revision of estimates of Soviet World War II fatalities. The number of partisans escalated during the final insurrection of April 1945. ^BF United States Japan proper 10,543 killed and 6,782 wounded. Radiation Effects Research Foundation How many people died as a result of the atomic bombings? 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. 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Stara Gradika was a sub-camp of Jasenovac established for women and children. Toward Peace: War Responsibility, Postwar Compensation, and Peace Movements and Education in Japan. [1] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered under separate headings. On the Eastern front, it was just the opposite; 5% of Germans taken prisoner by the Russians survived. 4-The figures for Army wounded add up to 4,219,211. [258], The following is a summary of the data from the Soviet archives: USSR 82,079 (3,522 post armistice); Africa 22,341 (1,565 post armistice), at sea 28,438 (5,526 post armistice); 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. The Hahn's believe the official German figure of 2million deaths is an historical myth, lacking foundation. Aufl., 1. Initial successes in bad weather, which gave them cover from the Allied air forces, resulted in a German penetration of over 80km (50mi) to within less than 16km (10mi) of the Meuse. Wars and Population. Estimated civilian deaths range from about 14 to 17 million. 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. universitet, 2000; (Russian Academy of Sciences). vs. Australia 199,511 killed and 15,000 wounded. This figure is cited in reference works dealing with World War II. American military dead#^BF1, The reasons for the high human toll in Yugoslavia were as follows Military operations between the occupying German military forces and their "Quislings and collaborators" against the Yugoslav resistance. The deaths of African soldiers conscripted by Italy are not included with the Italian war dead. F. Allied bombing of German supply lines caused civilian casualties. Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945 Transaction 2007, Ho Ping-ti. On 16 November the Allies started a large scale autumn offensive called Operation Queen. [179] Estimates of Holocaust deaths range between 4.9 and 5.9million Jews.[180]. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. E. Bruce Reynolds, "Aftermath of Alliance: The Wartime Legacy in Thai-Japanese Relations". Data from this document is listed in, Schimitzek, Stanislaw, Truth or Conjecture? Mark Axworthy. 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. [7][8] The Red Army claimed responsibility for the majority of Wehrmacht casualties during World War II. 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. The breakout by service is as follows: Army 234,874. The German economist. Casualties in 193940 include the following dead and missing: The number of wounded includes 2,576,000 permanently disabled. 3-Included in these statistics are 322,807 POWs held by the US and UK. [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. The database contains civilians in case they have been buried at a military cemetery. Army GroupB had the 2nd Panzer Division in northern France, 116th Panzer Division in the Paris area, and the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy. 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. Universe, Inc. (July 13, 2005). The Italian front is considered a separate but related theater. by Konrad Adenauer. The Ustasa also killed most of Croatia's Jews, 20,000 Gypsies, and many thousands of their political enemies. . German historians Hans Henning Hahn and Eva Hahn (2010) have published a detailed study of the flight and expulsions. [nb 12] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered as separate theatres. The campaign to clear the Scheldt Estuary along with Operation Pheasant was a decisive victory for the Allies, as it allowed a greatly improved delivery of supplies directly from Antwerp, which was far closer to the front than the Normandy beaches. During September and October, the Allied 6th Army Group (U.S. 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. Curiously, until the autumn of 1916 German casualties on the Eastern Front in proportion to the number of men were not smaller than in the West despite Russian weakness in artillery and ammunition. p. 30(500,000 civilians in Japan and 300,000 overseas, figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). 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?] The French forces launched a small offensive, the Saar Offensive against Germany in the Saar region but halted their advance and returned. 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. Moscow, Nauka, 1993; S. N. Mikhalev, Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie, Krasnoiarskii gos. Millions also died as a result of other German actions. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Total war dead of 357,116; Navy (50,758); Army (144,079); Air Force (69,606); Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (624); This report (HMSO 6832) listed: The preliminary 1945 data for UK colonial forces was killed 6,877, missing 14,208, wounded 6,972 and. 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. This was also the period in which the United Kingdom and France did not supply significant aid to Poland, despite their pledged alliance. In doing so, the Germans beat the Allies to the punch; the Allies had been planning an amphibious landing in which they could begin to surround Germany, cutting off her supply of raw materials from Sweden. French losses were 92,000 KIA, 39,600 MIA and over 250,000 WIA. These were built in anticipation of an Allied invasion of France. There were 1,536 deaths among the 13,996 interned civilians in 194245. Colonial forces are not included in these figures. Bonin Islands: 2,700, 12,500, (15,200) Presse- und Informationsamt. Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. Defending the Ardennes were troops of the US First Army. The British XXX Corps would punch through the German lines along the MaasSchelde canal and link up with the airborne troops of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Eindhoven, the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World WarII. [94] This instance of tying prisoner's hands contributed to Hitler's decision to issue his Commando Order instructing that all captured Commandos or Commando-type personnel were to be executed as a matter of procedure. Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945 Transaction 2007; Michel Pauly: Geschichte Luxemburgs, 2013. Detailed by country: Rummel estimates POW deaths in Japanese custody at 539,000. ed. The breakout by service is as follows: Army 318,274 (234,874 battle, 83,400 nonbattle). Merchant Navy (30,248); British Home Guard (1,206) and Civilians (60,595). [476], 5-Strategic Bombing Survey The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki The most striking result of the atomic bombs was the great number of casualties. Merchant Navy (530); British Home Guard (0) and Civilians (0). Total casualties were 668,315 including 299,485 dead, 24,010 missing and 344,820 injured. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. 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. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. 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. For the purposes of CWGC the dates of inclusion for Commonwealth War Dead are 3 September 1939 to 31 December 1947. Schramm put the total at 4,188,057. These figures include Austria and foreign nationals of German ancestry in eastern Europe. Danish Ministry of Education. (1 January 1995). The majority of the British and elements of the French forces escaped at Dunkirk. I believe that it was just as bad for Russians taken prisoners by the Germans on the Eastern front. [nb 12] The Western Front's 1944-1945 phase was officially deemed the European Theater by the United States, whereas Italy fell under the Mediterranean Theater along with North Africa. Eng. Military dead were estimated with Soviet forces at 10,000 and 15,000 with German. Ed. vs. U.K. and Netherlands 208,026 killed and 139,225 wounded. Of 7,080 BEF casualties, 5,533 losses were incurred by the 5th Australian Division; German losses were 1,600-2,000, with 150 taken prisoner. The hardest hit localities were Podgorica, Leskovac, Zadar and Belgrade. Dutch Merchant Marine. On 6 June 1944, the Allies began Operation Overlord (also known as "D-Day") the long-awaited liberation of France. 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. With an addition of this estimate of 194445 unrecorded deaths, the final estimation gave in round numbers a half a million German civilians killed by Allied aerial attacks. 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. The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. New Guinea: 112,400, 15,200, (127,600) "Hvor mange drbte danskere?". 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. Heike Liebau et al., World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions, and Perspectives from Africa and Asia. 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. Germany (West). Total military dead were put at 4,440,000 (3,760,000 in prewar 1937 borders. 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. 3133. (1950) The West German government made a preliminary estimate of 3.0million civilian deaths in the expulsions. It's all about the recipe. 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. (Victims of Two Dictatorships. 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. Civilians 7,500 (3,600 Merchant seaman, 1,500 resistance fighters, 1,800 civilians killed and 600 Jews killed)[94] 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. Archivalien und ausgewhlte Erlebnisberichte. (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. The, Michael Ellman and S. Maksudov, Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War:a note World War II . The footnotes give a detailed breakdown of the casualties and their sources, including data on the number of wounded where reliable sources are available. 1992-6, Stephane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard Univ Pr, 1999. 1978), Mikhalev, S. N (2000). German Army GroupG surrendered to US forces at Haar, in Bavaria, on 5 May. [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. Schramm put the total at 4,188,057. Ostarbeiters and POW in Third Reich and Their Repatriation) (Russian). By 1940, 48,773 were purged - 90 percent of its generals, 80 percent of its colonels, and half of its core commanders - leaving the army with unskilled officers, few trained leaders, and poor morale. Bureau odszkodowan wojennych, Statement on war losses and damages of Poland in 19391945. 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