60 million
2007-04-18 01:37:01
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answered by mertev 4
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There is no official figure for the total death toll, since civilian casualties can only be guessed-estimated.
The military casualties are aproximately (killed or missing)
Ussr: 7.5 million
Germany: 3.0 million
China: 2.5
Japan: 1.8
U.K.: 300 thousand
Italy: 300 thou.
USA: 250
France: 200
For the first time in history, for a war of this scale, more civilans were victims than military personnel.
2007-04-18 09:01:12
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answered by Rodolfo Max 4
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Over 60 million people died in WWII and of those 60 million, more were civilian than soldiers.
The Soviet Union lost the most with 25 million deaths, but only about a third were combat related.
China's death toll is incomplete but estimates are between 15 and 22 million.
Poland had 6 million deaths including 3 million Jews, roughly 20% of its prewar population.
Germany lost 4 million soldiers and 2 million civilians, many of them women.
Japan had 1.2 million battle deaths and another 1.4 million soldiers listed as missing, almost 1 million civilians were killed in the bombing raids between 1944 and 1945.
Over 1.7 million Yugoslavs and 500,000 Greeks died in the war.
France lost 200,000 soldiers and 400,000 civilians.
Italy lost 330,000 people.
Hungary lost 147,000 men in combat.
Bulgaria lost 19,000 in combat.
Romania lost 73,000 in combat.
Great Britain lost 264,000 soldiers and 60,000 civilians in bombing raids.
The United States lost 292,000 soldiers.
The Dutch lost 10,000 soldiers and 190,000 civilians.
Australia lost 23,000 men in combat.
Canada lost 37,000 soldiers.
India lost 24,000 men in battle.
New Zeland lost 10,000.
South Africa lost 6,000.
2007-04-18 08:47:39
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answer #3
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answered by ANS . 1
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A lot of people. Close to about 71 million people counting all the people who died from the atom bomb and stuff. It's pretty sad and you also count the concentration camps. You can find this out on wikipedia.
2007-04-18 09:06:32
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answered by glasstin10 3
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Somewhere between 35,000 and 72,000 :
"Combined total"
"The total estimated human loss of life caused by World War II, irrespective of political alignment, was roughly 72 million people. The civilian toll was around 46 million, the military toll about 26 million. The Allies lost around 61 million people, and the Axis lost 11 million. (Note that some Axis countries switched sides and reentered the war on the side of the Allies; those nations are included in the Allied count, regardless of when the deaths occurred.) There was a disproportionate loss of life and property; some nations had a higher casualty rate than others, due to a number of factors including military tactics, crimes against humanity, economic preparedness and the level of technology"
"World War II casualties", Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
"The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict as well as the largest war in history."
"The statistics on World War II casualties are inexact. Only for the United States and the British Commonwealth can official figures showing killed, wounded, prisoners or missing for the armed forces be cited with any degree of assurance. For most other nations, only estimates of varying reliability exist. Statistical accounting broke down in both Allied and Axis nations when whole armies were surrendered or dispersed. Guerrilla warfare, changes in international boundaries, and mass shifts in population vastly complicated postwar efforts to arrive at accurate figures even for the total dead from all causes."
"Civilian deaths from land battles, aerial bombardment, political and racial executions, war-induced disease and famine, and the sinking of ships probably exceeded battle casualties. These civilian deaths are even more difficult to determine, yet they must be counted in any comparative evaluation of national losses. There are no reliable figures for the casualties of the Soviet Union and China, the two countries in which casualties were undoubtedly greatest. Mainly for this reason, estimates of total dead in World War II vary anywhere from 35,000,000 to 60,000,000--a statistical difference of no small import."
"However inexact many of the figures, their main import is clear. The heaviest proportionate human losses occurred in eastern Europe where Poland lost perhaps 20 percent of its prewar population, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union around 10 percent. German losses, of which the greater proportion occurred on the Eastern Front, were only slightly less severe. The nations of western Europe, however great their suffering from occupation, escaped with manpower losses that were hardly comparable with those of World War I. In East Asia, the victims of famine and pestilence in China are to be numbered in the millions, in addition to other millions of both soldiers and civilians who perished in battle and bombardment."
"World War II", Encyclopedia Britannica CD 2000
"Estimates of total military and civilian casualties varied from 35 million to 60 million killed, including about 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Millions more civilians were wounded and made homeless throughout Europe and East Asia."
"World War II", Encyclopædia Britannica 2007, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 17 Apr. 2007 : http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9382944
2007-04-18 09:17:09
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answered by Erik Van Thienen 7
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Check this out, it tells you down the bottom right, about 71 million all together by the look of it,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_2
2007-04-18 08:36:58
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answered by Tottle 1
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