DEATHS IN WORLD WAR II
Country Military Civilian Total
USSR 10,000,000. 20,000,000. 30,000,000
China 1,324,000 10,000,000 11,324,000
Germany 3,250,000 3,810,000 7,060,000
Poland 850,000 6,000,000 6,850,000
Japan 1,506,000 300,000 1,806,000
Yugoslavia 300,000 1,400,000 1,700,000
Rumania 520,000 465,000 985,000
France 340,000 470,000 810,000
Hungary 750,000
Austria 380,000 145,000 525,000
Greece 520,000
Italy 330,000 80,000 410,000
Czechoslovakia 400,000
USA 405,399 405,399
Great Britain 326,000 62,000 388,000
Holland 14,000 236,000 250,000
Belgium 10,000 75,000 85,000
Finland 79,000 79,000
Canada 42,000 42,000
India 36,000 36.000
Australia 29,000 29,000
Spain 12,000 10,000 22,000
Bulgaria 19,000 2,000 21,000
New Zealand 12,000 12,000
South Africa 9,000 9,000
Norway 5,000 5,000
Denmark 4,000 4,000
Notes:
1) The USSR never acknowledged more than 10 million dead.
2) Approximately six million Soviet soldiers were captured; about thre-quarters died.
3) Approximately 1.5 million Germans died in prison camps, primarily those run by the USSR.
4) Approximately 600,000 Germans died in bombing attacks.
5) In 1933, there were approximately 525,000 Jewish Germans, less than noe percent of the German population. In addition, there were another 750,000 Mischlinge, or mixed race individuals who were one-half Jewish or less. By September 1939, there were only 190,000 Jews left in Germany. More than 167,000 Jews left Germany prior to the beginning of the war.
6) Compare these numbers to U.S. losses in other wars:
WWI 156,516
Viet Nam 58,198
Korea 36,516
Gulf I 148
Gulf II 2,000