The OKW retained a substantial reserve of such mobile divisions also, but these were dispersed over a large area: the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler was still Netherlands, the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend and the Panzer-Lehr Division were located in the ParisOrleans area, since the Normandy coastal defence sectors or (Kstenverteitigungsabschnitte KVA) were considered the most likely areas for an invasion. 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 318,274 (234,874 battle, 83,400 nonbattle). 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. 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. [601] Serbian sources currently claim that 700,000 persons were murdered at Jasenovac. (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. The Australian government does not regard. Army GroupG, considering the possibility of an invasion on the Atlantic coast, had dispersed its mobile reserves, locating the 11th Panzer Division in Gironde, the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich refitting around the southern French town of Montauban, and the 9th Panzer Division stationed in the Rhone delta area. Total German soldiers who surrendered in the West, including 3,404,950 who surrendered after the end of the war, is given as 7,614,790. (1960) The West German government issued figures of the war losses. Rossiia i SSSR v voinakh XX veka: Poteri vooruzhennykh sil; statisticheskoe issledovanie OLMA-Press, 2001; ISBN 5-224-01515-4 Table 176", "Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2014-2015 p.38", "The "Debt of Honour Register" from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission", "Service Files of the Second World War War Dead, 19391947", "Seconde Guerre mondiale: tombs sous les bombes "amies", Bundesarchiv Euthanasie im Nationalsozialismus, "Bundeszentrale fr politische Bildung, Die Vertreibung der Deutschen aus den Gebieten jenseits von Oder und Neie", "Bundesamt fr Bevlkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe Hampe: Der zivile Luftschutz im Zweiten Weltkrieg", Zahl der Vertreibungsopfer ist neu zu erforschen Rdiger Overmans Deutschlandfunk. Seventh and Third Armies) into southeastern Germany and Austria. No sure count of even the prepaid populations existed. Germany reports. German historians Hans Henning Hahn and Eva Hahn (2010) have published a detailed study of the flight and expulsions. Suchdienstes, 1965. China after Pearl Harbor 202,958 killed and 88,920 wounded. These figures include 593,000 Germany in 1937 borders. Russian sources report that the Soviets reported the POW deaths of 62,105 (61,855 Japanese and 214 collaborator forces) out of the 640,105 captured (609,448 Japanese and 30,657 collaborator forces). 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 Greek government is planning to claim reparations from Germany for war damages. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. p. 252, Waller Wynne, Population of Czechoslovakia. 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. vs. Australia 199,511 killed and 15,000 wounded. The Auckland War Museum puts the number of World War II dead at 11,671. Celebes: 1,500, 4,000, (5,500) In Nazi extermination camps: according to Polish, The total population figures from 1933 listed here are taken from. Krasnoiarskii gos. J. Arch Getty and Stephen G. Wheatcroft maintain that Soviet-era figures more accurately detail the victims of the Gulag labor camp system in the Stalin era. Sources for total Chinese war dead are divergent and range from 10 to 20million as detailed below. According to the College of Education of the University of South Florida "Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy". It also includes foreign volunteers who died during their service in Finland and Finnish SS-men who died while serving in the German army. 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. French Indochina: 7,900, 4,500, (12,400) The most notable of these is the Holocaust in which millions of Jews, Poles, and Romani were systematically murdered or died from abuse and mistreatment. The next few months in the war were marked by the Phoney War. Royal Navy (50,758); British Army (144,079); Royal Air Force (69,606). 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. [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. Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 20132014, page 44. [256] In 2005 Tadeusz Piotrowski estimated the death toll in Soviet hands at 350,000. The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. Commissariato generale C.G.V. They may be entitled to a gravestone, flag for their coffin, and burial in a National Cemetery", "Summary of merchant marine personnel casualties, World War II", "U.S. Not Included in the figure of 210,000 war dead are 70,000 "indirect war casualties", [169] Erlikman, a Russian historian, notes that these figures are his estimates. No reliable statistics on Albania's wartime losses exist, but the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration reported about 30,000 Albanian war dead. "Hvor mange drbte danskere?". The German army (or Heer) was the most complicit as a result of being on the ground in Germany's eastern campaigns, but all branches participated. 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. Mexico lost 7 merchant ships and 63 dead merchant mariners. On 4 April the encirclement was completed and the Ninth Army reverted to the command of Bradley's 12th Army Group. During September and October, the Allied 6th Army Group (U.S. 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 14,072 dead while POWs), Wirtschaft und Statistik November 1949 pp. [262] Presse- und Informationsamt. (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. Sakhalin, the Aleutian, and Kuril Islands: 8,200, 3,200, (11,400) Some auxiliary and civilian organizations are also accorded war grave status if death occurred under certain specified conditions. [598] The USHMM reports between 77,000 and 99,000 persons were killed at the Jasenovac and Stara Gradika concentration camps. 3,700 Dutch nationals in the German armed forces and 7,500 missing and presumed dead in Germany and 16,000 deaths 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. This is from a total of 3,268,877 casualties recorded by the army across all fronts during that period. (1950) The West German government made a preliminary estimate of 3.0million civilian deaths in the expulsions. 3). Since casualty statistics are sometimes disputed the footnotes to this article present the different estimates by official governmental sources as well as historians. Unlike other parts of South East Asia, Thailand did not suffer from famine during the war. Andreev EM; Darsky LE; Kharkova TL, Population dynamics: consequences of regular and irregular changes. Japan proper 10,543 killed and 6,782 wounded. 10,066; Paramilitary 3,252; not indicated 45,078. 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. Lennart Lundberg Handelsflottan under andra vrldskriget, p. 9. The most numerous victims were Serbs. [260] In August 1941, 243,106 Poles living in the Special Settlements were amnestied and released by the Soviets. 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). Moscow Page 294. Andreev, E.M.; Darski, L.E. During the war, Swedish merchant shipping was attacked by both German and Soviet submarines; 2,000 merchant seamen were killed. [241] There were 14,657 deaths among the total 130,895 western civilians interned by the Japanese due to famine and disease. pedagog. [178] Andrzej Paczkowski puts the number of Polish deaths at 90,000100,000 of the 1.0million persons deported and 30,000 executed by the Soviets. Operations ceased at 2301 hours Central European time (CET) on 8 May. Major German units in the French southwest that had not been committed in Normandy withdrew, either eastwards towards Alsace (sometimes directly across the US 6th Army Group's advance) or into the ports with the intention of denying them to the Allies. Military Losses by theatre of war: Italy 74,725 (37,573 post armistice); France 2,060 (1,039 post armistice); Ursprnge, Arten und Folgen des Konstrukts "Bevlkerung" vor, im und nach dem "Dritten Reich" Zur Geschichte der deutschen Bevlkerungswissensch: Rdiger Overmans. Andaman & Nicobar Islands: 900, 1,500, (2,400) An estimated total of 7085 million people perished, or about 3% of the 2.3 billion (est.) Germany (West). I believe that it was just as bad for Russians taken prisoners by the Germans on the Eastern front. World War 2 was the bloodiest conflict in human history. Dutch casualties are placed at 2,890 killed or missing, 6,900 wounded, with no information provided on those captured. 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). ), Independent Russian historian Vadim Erlikman estimated Lithuanian civilian war dead in 194145 at 345,000 (25,000 in military operations; 230,000 executed, 15,000 in Germany and 75,000 due to hunger and disease. The principal belligerents were Russia and Romania (of the Allied and Associated Powers) versus the Central Powers countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria. 21st Army Group was then instead ordered to move northeast toward Bremen and Hamburg. [7][8] The Red Army claimed responsibility for the majority of Wehrmacht casualties during World War II. Page 202, "The Soviet-German War 19411945: Myths and Realities: A Survey Essay", US Army Battle Casualties and Non-battle Deaths in World War 2: Final Report, "The final stages of the naval war in north-west Europe", "12th Army Group Situation Map for 18 April 1945", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_Front_(World_War_II)&oldid=1128633092, Occupation of most of Western and Northern Europe by Axis troops, Fall of Nazi Germany (concurrently with the, Liberation of occupied countries in Western and Northern Europe, One was an opportunity taken by US forces when the Germans failed to blow up the, In the Allied 6th Army Group area, the US Seventh Army assaulted across the Rhine in the area between, Gootzen, Har and Connor, Kevin (2006). All sides practiced the shooting of hostages on a large scale. Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Holocaust victims, German war crimes, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, Allied war crimes, and deaths due to war-related famine and disease. (German government Statistical Office). This was also the period in which the United Kingdom and France did not supply significant aid to Poland, despite their pledged alliance. 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. 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). Heike Liebau et al., World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions, and Perspectives from Africa and Asia. An estimated 5,800,000 Poles died, which was 20 percent of Poland's prewar population. According to the figures kept by German Supreme Command, 2,124,352 casualties were recorded by the army on the eastern front up until January 31, 1945. The raid was a disaster, almost two-thirds of the attacking force became casualties. Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2005; Gregory Frumkin. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1996. 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). The 1949 report of the Japanese government Economic Stabilization Board detailed the casualties caused by air raids and sea bombardment. 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. (German Federal Statistical Office), Germany reports. Civilian losses were due to the sinking of the. Airborne troops would fly in from the United Kingdom and take bridges over the main rivers of the German-occupied Netherlands in three main cities; Eindhoven, Nijmegen, and Arnhem. . ; Kharkova, T.L. ^S Germany Although the great powers of Europe had declared war on one another, neither side had yet committed to launching a significant attack, and there was relatively little fighting on the ground. They place the ultimate blame for the mass flight and expulsion on the wartime policy of the Nazis in Eastern Europe. 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded. The World War II Databook, by John Ellis, 1993 p. 256. These figures (cited below) are based on necessarily rough estimates".[208]. Belgian casualties are placed at 7,500 killed or missing, 15,850 wounded, and 200,000 captured. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. Murray, Williamson and Millett, Alan R. (2000). other overseas 23,388 killed and 0 wounded. The details of these losses are as follows: 199,000 in. 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). Civilian deaths totaled 5055million. 1992-6, Stephane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard Univ Pr, 1999. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[236]. [384] Albanian official statistics claim somewhat higher losses. 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. 33 Swedish sailors were killed when submarine HMS Ulven was sunk by a German mine on April 16, 1943. The figures for these losses are currently disputed, estimates of the total deaths range from 500,000 to 2,000,000. [602] Jewish victims in Yugoslavia totaled 67,122. Both the Allies and Japanese also conscripted civilians to work as laborers and porters. USSR 82,079 (3,522 post armistice); Africa 22,341 (1,565 post armistice), at sea 28,438 (5,526 post armistice); [393][394][395][396][397][398][399][400][401][402], German government figures of 2.0 to 2.5million civilian deaths due to expulsions have been disputed by scholars since the publication of the results of the German church search service survey and the report by the German Federal Archive. p. 30(500,000 civilians in Japan and 300,000 overseas, figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). With an introd. Krasnoiarskii gos. "Allied casualties from D-day to VE totaled 766,294. The crossing of the Moselle River and the capture of the fortress of Metz proved difficult for the American troops in the face of German reinforcements, supply shortages, and unfavorable weather. The raids for which the British awarded the "North-West Europe Campaign of 1942" battle honour were: Operation Biting Bruneval (2728 February 1942), St Nazaire (2728 March 1942), Operation Myrmidon Bayonne (5 April 1942), Operation Abercrombie Hardelot (2122 April 1942), Dieppe (19 August 1942) and Operation Frankton Gironde (712 December 1942).[30][31]. General Franz Bhme announced the unconditional surrender of German troops in Norway. In early 1918 Imperial Germany knew it finally had a chance to win against the Allies. There were only some local, minor skirmishes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. Germany 25,430 (24,020 post armistice); Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia 49,459 (10,090 post armistice); Detailed by country: Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian deaths at 20,365,000. [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. Civilian deaths totaled 50-55 million. 13, No. Borneo: 11,300, 6,700, (18,000) Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. "Battle for the Roer Triangle". HEC No. 1961 (. Civilian war dead are included with the nations where they resided. Saint-Petersburg, 1995; (Russian Academy of Sciences). e The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe ( Baltics ), and Southeast Europe ( Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. POW deaths 3,000. Mai 1974. 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. German sources do not provide figures for Soviet citizens conscripted by Germany. Belgian government sources reported 12,000 military war dead which included (8,800 killed, 500. Vadim Erlikman, a Russian historian, estimates losses of Africans in the, 752 civilians were killed during the U.S. air attacks on. A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis. Detailed by country: Rummel estimates POW deaths in Japanese custody at 539,000. Danish Ministry of Education. Deaths due to air and V-rocket attacks were 60,595 civilians and 1,206 British Home Guard. They listed 210,000 direct war casualties in the Netherlands, not including the. pp. [392] English language sources put the death toll at 2 to 3million based on the West German government statistical analysis of the 1950s. Tams Stark of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has provided the following assessment of Hungarian losses. Recent historical scholarship has shed new light on the topic of Second World War casualties. New Guinea: 112,400, 15,200, (127,600) Small and Singer put the military losses at 5,000. The distinction between military and civilian casualties caused directly by warfare and collateral damage is not always clear-cut. The names of U.S. universitet (Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University). C. Deliberate acts of reprisal against target populations were perpetrated by all combatants. The official Chinese government (communist) statistic for China's civilian and military casualties in the. The additions were the annexation of the, Estimates in the west for the population transfers differ. 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. Die deutschen Vertreibungsverluste. German casualties based on statistics collected during the war included 27,074 KIA, 18,384 MIA and 111,034 WIA. western front ww2 casualties. The Netherlands War Graves Foundation maintains a registry of the names of Dutch war dead. [257], The Estonian State Commission for the Examination of Repressive Policies Carried out During the Occupations put civilian deaths due to the Soviet occupation in 19401941 at 33,900 including (7,800 deaths) of arrested people, (6,000) deportee deaths, (5,000) evacuee deaths, (1,100) people gone missing and (14,000) conscripted for forced labor. 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. German government figures of war losses do not include the increase in natural deaths with war casualties. ), The preliminary data for Canadian losses included killed 37,476, missing 1,843, wounded 53,174 and. The Americans accidentally bombed neutral Switzerland during the war causing civilian casualties. pedagog. The names of individual U.S. military personnel killed in World War II can be found at the U.S. National Archives. Mai 1974. 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. Demographer Boris Urlanis estimated Romanian war dead at 300,000 military and 200,000 civilians. Merchant Mariners killed in World War II are listed by USMM.org. Soviet sources list the deaths of 403 of the 2,377 Finnish. "[597] According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum "The Croat authorities murdered between 320,000 and 340,000 ethnic Serb residents of Croatia and Bosnia during the period of Ustaa rule; more than 30,000 Croatian Jews were killed either in Croatia or at Auschwitz-Birkenau". Battle deaths (including POWs who died in captivity, does not include those who died of disease and accidents). Presse- und Informationsamt. Following two months of slow fighting in hedgerow country, Operation Cobra allowed the Americans to break out at the western end of the lodgement. 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. China (inc. Hong Kong): 435,600, 20,100, (455,700) 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. Studies on the Population of China, 13681953. 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. Aufl. The local, According to an official U.S. report during the. Facts concerning the problem of the German expellees and refugees, Bonn 1967. 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". A total of 2,419 American civilian internees were listed as dead and missing. Okinawa: 67,900, 21,500, (89,400) Burma (inc. India): 163,000, 1,500, (164,500) Vertreibungsgebieten stlich von Oder und Neie. It's all about the recipe. 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. 105658, Tables 608-09, Japan Statistical Year-Book, 1949 [etc.]. Percy Schramm Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht: 1940 1945: 8 Bde. The database includes all servicemen and women who died during being listed in the Finnish army, navy or the air force. Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. 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. 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. B. 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