I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks and food magazines, and now, because of all the foodie blogs out there, I am adding more every day! Thomas M. Leonard, John F. Bratzel, George Lauderbaugh. In addition, the war and genocidal policy were inextricably linked. 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. (1960) The West German government issued figures of the war losses. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Defending the Ardennes were troops of the US First Army. Civilian losses were due to the sinking of the. Hope yall enjoy!Buy us . Because of the massive logistical obstacles a cross-channel invasion would face, the Allied high command decided to conduct a practice attack against the French coast. [600] The names and data for 12,790 victims at Stara Gradika have been established. In Episode 3 we take apart the most gruesome battles seen on the Western Front, North African Campaign and Middle Eastern Operations. In 1948 the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) issued a report of war losses. Total deaths from 1940 to 1953 due to the war and the Soviet occupation were approximately 83,000 persons (7.3% of the population). German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. by Michael Berenbaum New York University Press 1990; Niewyk, Donald L. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2000; Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, Basic Books 2010, pp. Gurkha casualties can be broken down as: 8,985 killed or missing and 23,655 wounded. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hg. 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded. A Japanese academic study published in 1979 by The Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki puts the total dead in the atomic attacks at 140,000 ( 10,000) in Hiroshima and 70,000 ( 10,000) in Nagasaki. In October the Americans decided that they could not just invest Aachen and let it fall in a slow siege, because it threatened the flanks of the U.S. Ninth Army. (This paper was a presentation at an academic conference in Warsaw Poland in 1994), Dzieje Najnowsze Rocznik XXI-1994, Pistohlkors, Gert. Percy Schramm Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht: 1940 1945: 8 Bde. "Christian Streit: Keine Kameraden: Die Wehrmacht und die Sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen, 19411945, Bonn: Dietz (3. Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group, persuaded the Allied High Command to launch a bold attack, Operation Market Garden, which he hoped would get the Allies across the Rhine and create the narrow-front he favoured. 3-Included in these statistics are 322,807 POWs held by the US and UK. [260] In August 1941, 243,106 Poles living in the Special Settlements were amnestied and released by the Soviets. The losses listed here are actual deaths; hypothetical losses due to a decline in births are not included with the total dead. 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. Original emissaries had no authority to surrender to any of the Allies. 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. Eng. World War II was won on the Eastern Front. 4, Prague p. 57, Urlanis, Boris (1971). Bonn 1989 P.41 (100,000 during wartime flight; 200,000 in USSR as forced labor and 100,000 in internment camps), Wirtschaft und Statistik October 1956, Journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. World War 2's Eastern Front From Stalingrad To Berlin In 48 Photos How The Eastern Front Decided World War II Published August 11, 2019 Updated August 20, 2019 The Nazis suffered 80 percent of their casualties on World War II's Eastern Front, the deadliest theater in the history of war. 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). Soon after, the Allies were racing across France. On Utah Beach, U.S. troops suffered only 197 casualties, the lightest of any beach, when they accidentally landed in the wrong spot. Dutch Merchant Marine. (German government Statistical Office). The port of Antwerp was liberated on 4 September by the British 11th Armoured Division. Not Included in the figure of 210,000 war dead are 70,000 "indirect war casualties", Cuba lost 5 merchant ships and 79 merchant mariners died. Ingo Haar, "Hochgerechnetes Unglck, Die Zahl der deutschen Opfer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird bertrieben", Rdiger Overmans- "Personelle Verluste der deutschen Bevlkerung durch Flucht und Vertreibung". In early 1918 Imperial Germany knew it finally had a chance to win against the Allies. Schramm put the total at 4,188,057. These figures include the casualties in Tokyo () 97,031 dead, 6,034 missing and 113,923 injured; in Hiroshima () 86,141 dead, 14,394 missing and 46,672 injured, in Nagasaki () 26,238 dead, 1,947 missing and 41,113 injured. The 1939 Population for Germany within 1937 borders, Foreign nationals of German ancestry in the countries of, (1949) The West German Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office)estimated total war dead of 5,483,000; (3,250,000)military; (500,000) civilians killed in bombing raids and the land campaign; (1,533,000) deaths in the expulsions from Poland and (200,000) victims of Nazi racial, religious or political persecution. The official Yugoslav figure for total war dead is 1.7million (300,000 military and 1,400,000 civilians). 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. Demographer Boris Urlanis estimated Romanian war dead at 300,000 military and 200,000 civilians. These figures included the losses of Newfoundland and Southern Rhodesia. The deception plans, Operation Fortitude and Operation Bodyguard, had the Germans convinced that the invasion would occur in the Pas-de-Calais, while the real target was Normandy. (1993). [473], 2-United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division (1947) The bombing of Japan killed 333,000 civilians and injured 473,000. pp. Operations ceased at 2301 hours Central European time (CET) on 8 May. Third Axis Fourth Ally. Most of these losses occurred during the Nazi organized flight and evacuation during the war, and the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union; they point out that there are 80,522 confirmed deaths in the postwar internment camps. Edited by Executive Office of the Statistics Commission and Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office. 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. At the Maginot Line on the other side of the border, French troops stood facing them, whilst the British Expeditionary Force and other elements of the French Army created a defensive line along the Belgian border. 3568. Gunn, Geoffrey (2011) "The Great Vietnamese Famine of 194445 Revisited", The Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960, p. 78. [415][416][417][418][419][420][421][422], Military war dead Murray, Williamson and Millett, Alan R. (2000). Army total 1,140,429 killed and 295,247 wounded. in the Dutch famine of 1944. Many civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation. R. J. Rummel estimates the civilian victims of Japanese democide at 5,964,000. 3133 (they give figure of 300,000 German deaths due to racial, religious and political persecution including 170,000 Jews. They estimated German casualties up until April 30, 1945, at 2,230,324 dead, 2,870,404 missing and POW held by Allies. [265] However some western scholars estimate the total at between 1.7 and 2.3million.[266]. [169] Erlikman, a Russian historian, notes that these figures are his estimates. Bonn 1989, pp. Lennart Lundberg Handelsflottan under andra vrldskriget, p. 9. [1] World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered under separate headings. Colonial forces are not included in these figures. Bonin Islands: 2,700, 12,500, (15,200) "Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Netherlands" (PDF). Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961 pp. The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. Mai 1974. 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. Presse- und Informationsamt. Unlike other parts of South East Asia, Thailand did not suffer from famine during the war. 19401991 Tallinn 2005. With an introduction by Konrad Adenauer. (figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). 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. pp. "Allied casualties from D-day to VE totaled 766,294. Burma (inc. India): 163,000, 1,500, (164,500) French losses were 92,000 KIA, 39,600 MIA and over 250,000 WIA. The additions were the annexation of the, Estimates in the west for the population transfers differ. Deaths in battle were 292,131. Seventh Army and French First Army) fought a difficult campaign through the Vosges Mountains that was marked by dogged German resistance and slow advances. Civilian deaths of 203,250 which included 1,350 Merchant seaman, 2,800 executed, 2,500 dead in Dutch concentration camps, 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 Germans managed to hold a large bridgehead (the Colmar Pocket), on the western bank of the Rhine and centered around the city of Colmar. The Finnish National Archives website's database lists the names of the 94,676 Finnish war dead between 1939 and 1945. In Berlin, the Reichsbanner resistance organization identified possible drop zones for Allied paratroopers and planned to guide them past German defenses into the city.[43]. However, when the Allies made a counter-landing in Norway following the German invasion, the Germans repulsed them and defeated the Norwegian armed forces, driving the latter into exile. Recent studies published in Russia put the actual corrected population in 1940 at 192.598million. (1998) A German demographic study estimated 5,500,000 to 6,900,000 war dead. Sakhalin, the Aleutian, and Kuril Islands: 8,200, 3,200, (11,400) Published in Schulze, Rainer, Flchtlinge und Vertriebene in der westdeutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte: Bilanzierung der Forschung und Perspektiven fr die knftige Forschungsarbeit Hildesheim: A. Lax, 1987. 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. American losses were 586,628, including 135,576 dead. There were only some local, minor skirmishes. Of the country's total casualties, about 2.1 million were military personnel while 500,000-800,000 were civilians. After years of war, the United Kingdom and France were exhausted. Their advance only slowed down as they encountered regrouped and entrenched German troops in the Vosges Mountains. vs. United States 485,717 killed and 34,679 wounded. The raid was a disaster, almost two-thirds of the attacking force became casualties. American military dead#^BF1, The reasons for the high human toll in Yugoslavia were as follows There were an additional 31,271 military deaths due to "natural causes" which are not included in these figures. The Allied operations were then succeeded by the German Ardennes offensive. Borneo: 11,300, 6,700, (18,000) The hardest hit localities were Podgorica, Leskovac, Zadar and Belgrade. The official U.S. report listed 1 U.S. civilian killed during the, Six U.S. civilians were killed in Oregon in May 1945 by Japanese. Lesser Sundas: 51,800, 1,200, (53,000) 21st Army Group was then instead ordered to move northeast toward Bremen and Hamburg. The, Michael Ellman and S. Maksudov, Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War:a note World War II . During World War II, 1.2million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. Eng. Research in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused a revision of estimates of Soviet World War II fatalities. F. Allied bombing of German supply lines caused civilian casualties. 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. 95% of POWs taken by the Germans on the Western front survived. 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