Army GroupB had the 2nd Panzer Division in northern France, 116th Panzer Division in the Paris area, and the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy. 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. & Jap. Army total 1,140,429 killed and 295,247 wounded. German scholar Hellmuth Auerbach puts the death toll in the Hitler era at 6million Jews killed in the Holocaust and 7million other victims of the Nazis. Reported deaths for the years 19391945 1,187,783, including: judicial executions 46,350; deaths in Gulag labor camps 718,804; deaths in labor colonies and prisons 422,629. I believe that it was just as bad for Russians taken prisoners by the Germans on the Eastern front. [40], General Eisenhower's Armies were facing resistance that varied from almost non-existent to fanatical[41] as they advanced toward Berlin, which was located 200km (120mi) from their positions in early April 1945. Ingo Haar, "Hochgerechnetes Unglck, Die Zahl der deutschen Opfer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird bertrieben", Sddeutsche Zeitung, November 14, 2006. On Utah Beach, U.S. troops suffered only 197 casualties, the lightest of any beach, when they accidentally landed in the wrong spot. Advancing from northern Italy, the British Eighth Army[a] pushed to the borders of Yugoslavia to defeat the remaining Wehrmacht elements there. Statistics on the number of military wounded are included whenever available. Philippines: 377,500, 121,100, (498,600) The Japanese government figures for POW deaths are not in agreement with Soviet figures. [Tokyo], 1949, pp. [415][416][417][418][419][420][421][422], Military war dead [246] Since 1990 Russian scholars have been given access to the Soviet-era archives and have published data on the numbers of people executed and those who died in Gulag labor camps and prisons. Total military dead were put at 4,440,000 (3,760,000 in prewar 1937 borders. 10 May 1945, Last edited on 21 December 2022, at 04:17, List of Commando raids on the Atlantic Wall, Western Front command tenures (World War II), Learn how and when to remove this template message, George C Marshall, Biennial reports of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army to the Secretary of War: 1 July 193930 June 1945. Malaya & Singapore: 8,500, 2,900, (11,400) Ed. 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. Retrieved 4 March 2016. Dutch Merchant Marine. Facts concerning the problem of the German expellees and refugees, Bonn 1967. (the figures of 2.8 million Jews and 3.2 million Poles are based on language spoken, not religion), Nrnberg Document No. 1939 Press Photo American Soldiers Honoring French WWII Casualties in Nantes . German casualties based on statistics collected during the war included 27,074 KIA, 18,384 MIA and 111,034 WIA. [384] 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. With an introd. [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. I. C. B. Dear and M. R. D. Foot Oxford Companion to World WarII Oxford, 2005; Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1960 Bonn 1961 p.78 (available online at. When scholarly sources differ on the number of deaths in a country, a range of war losses is given, in order to inform readers that the death toll is disputed. : -Human Losses of the USSR in the Period of WWII: Collection of Articles. The hardest hit localities were Podgorica, Leskovac, Zadar and Belgrade. 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. Stalin began purging the Red Army of its professional and skilled soldiers. The next few months in the war were marked by the Phoney War. 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). British casualties on the first day totalled 58,000, the worst single day loss of the war. p. 30 (figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), R. J. Rumell, Statistics of democide Table 3.1. E. Reduced food supply caused famine and disease. (1998) A German demographic study estimated 5,500,000 to 6,900,000 war dead. ), The British colony of Malaya consisted of the. 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). 5-Figures of missing include POWs held by Allies. The port of Antwerp was liberated on 4 September by the British 11th Armoured Division. 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. [89], Military(Norwegian & Allied Forces) 2,000 (800 Army, 900 Navy and 100 Air). Latze Member Posts: 377 Joined: 08 May 2010, 17:55 Re: German Casualties - Eastern Front vs. Western Front by Latze 14 Sep 2015, 23:06 Holocaust Encyclopedia "Mosaic of Victims: Overview", "Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida, A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Encyclopedia: "Genocide of European Roma, 19391945", "Romanies and the Holocaust: A Reevaluation and an Overview", Jewish Responses to the Porajmos The Romani Holocaust, "Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution", "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 1939 WWII Era France Soldiers in Observation Post . 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. Veritable and Grenade were planned to start on 8 February 1945, but Grenade was delayed by two weeks when the Germans flooded the Roer valley by destroying the gates of the Rur Dam upstream. Mai 1974. South of the Ardennes, American forces fought from September until mid-December to push the Germans out of Lorraine and from behind the Siegfried Line. Stara Gradika was a sub-camp of Jasenovac established for women and children. The total still missing on 2/28/1946 were 6,244; Navy (340); Army (2,267); Air Force (3,089); Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (18); Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945 Transaction 2007, Ho Ping-ti. 2223, . Okinawa: 67,900, 21,500, (89,400) [475], 4-The Effects of strategic bombing on Japanese morale Based on a survey of Japanese households the death toll was put at 900,000 dead and 1.3million injured, the SBS noted that this figure was subject to a maximum sampling error of 30%. There were additional casualties in 193940, which totaled 136,945: There were 4,500 military deaths with the all Spanish. U.S. Army figures include the deaths of 5,337 from the Philippines and 165 from Puerto Rico (see p.118). They maintain that figures related to flight and expulsion have been manipulated by the German government due to political pressure. 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. [38] British and Canadian paratroopers reached the Baltic city of Wismar just ahead of Soviet forces on 2 May. 4, Prague p. 57, Urlanis, Boris (1971). Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1996. Deaths due to air and V-rocket attacks were 60,595 civilians and 1,206 British Home Guard. 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. Navy Wars and Population. Allies United StatesUnited Kingdom American military dead#^BF1, The reasons for the high human toll in Yugoslavia were as follows [447] There were more than 60 million World War 2 casualties resulting in death which at the time was more than 2.5% of the overall world population. 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. Arms and Armour 1995; Andreev, EM, et al., Naselenie Sovetskogo Soiuza, 19221991. 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. MacArthur in Japan: The Occupation: Military Phase, Volume I Supplement U.S. Government printing Office 1966, p. 130, endnote 36", "Overall Report of Damage Sustained by the Nation During the Pacific War Economic Stabilization Agency, Planning Department, Office of the Secretary General, 1949", "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Subsequent Weapons Testing". Sakhalin, the Aleutian, and Kuril Islands: 8,200, 3,200, (11,400) Civilians in Navy service 114,493 killed and 1,880 wounded and missing. 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. The German economist. in the Dutch famine of 1944. Presse-und Informationsamt. 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]. A Russian historian in a handbook of human losses in the 20th century has provided the following assessment of Bulgarian casualties:Military deaths: 2,000 military Axis occupation forces in Yugoslavia and Greece; 10,124 dead, Military casualties with the pro-Japanese, Library and Archives Canada puts military losses at 44,090 (24,525 Army, 17,397 Air Force, 2,168 Navy. 1939 German Soldiers With Time To Spare Thresh Wheat In France Ww2 Photo 7X9 . Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Dtv, Neuauflage 1992. 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. ^I China The French Ministry of Defense puts French military war dead at 200,000. Bevlkerungsbilanzen fr die deutschen Vertreibungsgebiete 1939/50.Herausgeber: Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1958. pp. The Hahn's maintain that the 473,013 confirmed deaths is a correct accounting of the losses. On the Eastern front, it was just the opposite; 5% of Germans taken prisoner by the Russians survived. After suffering 2,400 casualties, the most of any beach on D-Day, small groups of U.S. soldiers were able to break through the defenses, opening the way for successive waves. [258], The following is a summary of the data from the Soviet archives: 1937-1940 - Red Army purges . [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. A joint CzechGerman Historical Commission determined that between 15,000 and 30,000 Germans perished in the expulsions. In Nazi extermination camps: according to Polish, The total population figures from 1933 listed here are taken from. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The Greek government is planning to claim reparations from Germany for war damages. However, much was learned as a result of the operation these lessons would be put to good use in the subsequent invasion. [247] The Russian scholar Viktor Zemskov puts the death toll from 1941 to 1945 at about 1million based on data from the Soviet archives. That was sometimes done if the deceased was, for example, an ammunition worker, air raid victim or a civilian worker who for some other reason died because of the war. Sailors 300,386 killed and 12,275 wounded and missing. Thailand: 6,900, 100, (7,000) Danish Ministry of Education. [13] The table below gives data on the number of dead and military wounded for each country, along with population information to show the relative impact of losses. Of the country's total casualties, about 2.1 million were military personnel while 500,000-800,000 were civilians. The exact number of dead and injured will never be known because of the confusion after the explosions. UK casualties include losses of the colonial forces. [260] In August 1941, 243,106 Poles living in the Special Settlements were amnestied and released by the Soviets. Missing and presumed dead(including POWs) were 131,419 (111,579 pre-armistice, 19,840 post armistice)[446] 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. 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