The Austrian government provides the following information on human losses during the rule of the Nazis. For Austria the consequences of the Nazi regime and the Second World War were disastrous: During this period 2, Austrians had been executed and more than 16, citizens murdered in the concentration camps.
Some 16, Austrians were killed in prison, while over 67, Austrian Jews were deported to death camps, only 2, of them lived to see the end of the war. In addition, , Austrians lost their lives serving in the army of the Third Reich or were reported missing, and 24, civilians were killed during bombing raids. The German people paid an enormous price in human lives for their support of the Nazi regime during the war.
In post-war Germany the fate of civilians and prisoners of war has been a contentious topic. The current view of the German government is that these losses were due to an aggressive war started by the German nation. However, there are some who attempt to trivialize the crimes of the Hitler period by comparing German losses to the Holocaust. These claims are viewed as an outrage by those who survived the Holocaust and have from time to time exacerbated Polish-German relations.
The bombing of Dresden and the bombing campaign in general has been a topic of ultra-right propaganda in post-war Germany. The German government currently places the ultimate blame for the mass flight and expulsion on the wartime policy of the Nazis in Eastern Europe. Erika Steinbach , the current President of the Federation, provoked outrage when she supported the statements of other members of the expellee organization claiming that Hitler's attack on Poland was a response to Poland's policy.
However, in Poland it is viewed by some as an attempt to reopen the wounds of the war and to revert to pre-war borders. The fate of over one million missing German soldiers in the USSR was an issue in post-war West Germany, with some claiming that they were held in secret labor camps by the Soviets. The Canadian author James Bacque a novelist with no previous historical research experience has written a book Other Losses in which he claims that the United States are responsible for the deaths of , to 1,, German POW.
Bacque presents his arguments with a description of the horrific conditions at the Rheinwiesenlager POW camps and eyewitness accounts of retired US military officers. Bacque maintains that there has been a conspiracy by the United States to cover up these losses. Ambrose maintains that the figure of , POW missing from the US records was a bookkeeping error, that many POW were released and no records were maintained. Ambrose points out that the US and the UK had to cope with a major logistical problem in order to maintain the huge number of surrendered German personnel and finds the claim that Eisenhower and the US military deliberately withheld support for the German POW to be without merit.
Military Wiki Explore. Popular pages. Project maintenance. Register Don't have an account? German casualties in World War II. Edit source History Talk 0. German soldier killed in action Statistics for German World War II military casualties are divergent and contradictory. Oldenbourg Entwicklung des organisatorischen Aufbaues. Band III. Der Zweifrontenkrieg. Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses. Gieseking, Vol 15 P Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg.
Dear and M. ISBN Trevor N. Rummel lists Rummel breaks out war dead of 5. Herausgeber: Statistisches Bundesamt - Wiesbaden. Surprisingly, more than twice as many civilians died in World War II than did members of the military.
Current estimates place military deaths between 21 million and By comparison, civilian deaths include 29 million to Dutch East Indies Indonesia — 3 million to 4 million. French Indochina Laos , Cambodia , part of Vietnam — 1 million to 2. As many as 27 million Soviets lost their lives, with as many as The war devastated vast swathes of Europe, East Asia, the Pacific, and North Africa, while its influence touched upon every part of the planet.
Randal Olson , a Computer Science graduate research assistant at Michigan State University, has helped to illustrate the true devastation.
His charts showcase the percentage of a country's population that died during WWII. Belarus suffered the worst devastation of any country during the war in terms of a percentage of its population.
Over a quarter of its population, 2,, people, died during the conflict. China also lost an astounding 20,, people during the conflict. As a comparison, here are the number of American deaths in every major war the U. About 12 million, mostly Eastern Europeans, were employed in the German war economy as forced laborers. In addition to Nazi concentration camps, the Soviet gulags labor camps led to the death of citizens of occupied countries such as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, as well as German prisoners of war POWs and Soviet citizens who were thought to be Nazi supporters.
Of the 5. Soviet ex-POWs and repatriated civilians were treated with great suspicion as potential Nazi collaborators, and some were sent to the Gulag upon being checked by the NKVD. Japanese POW camps, many of which were used as labor camps, also had high death rates.
While 37, prisoners from the UK, 28, from the Netherlands, and 14, from the United States were released after the surrender of Japan, the number of Chinese released was only After , the number reached 10 million. About , of these Javanese laborers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia, and only 52, were repatriated to Java. Canada had a similar program. In addition, 14, German and Italian citizens who had been assessed as being security risks were also interned.
Hungarians were forced to work for the Soviet Union until
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