Gruhl estimates POW deaths in Japanese captivity at 331,584. 1992-6, Stephane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard Univ Pr, 1999. The US 6th Army Group fanned out to the southwest, passing to the east of Switzerland through Bavaria and into Austria and northern Italy.[when?] Toward Peace: War Responsibility, Postwar Compensation, and Peace Movements and Education in Japan. Mai 1974. Included in the figures of total war dead for each nation are victims of the Holocaust. pp. Saint-Petersburg, 1995; (Russian Academy of Sciences). Fighting on the Western Front was preceded by the Phony War. (This paper was a presentation at an academic conference in Warsaw Poland in 1994), Dzieje Najnowsze Rocznik XXI-1994, Pistohlkors, Gert. Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie (Human Losses in the Great Patriotic War 19411945 A Statistical Investigation). The estimated breakdown for each Soviet republic of total war dead[10]^AY4. (Victims of Two Dictatorships. In Episode 3 we take apart the most gruesome battles seen on the Western Front, North African Campaign and Middle Eastern Operations. Austrian civilian casualties were 99,700 victims of Nazi persecution and 24,000 killed in Allied air raids. 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). 3133 (figure includes 170,000 German Jews). [603] [255], In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated 150,000 Polish citizens were killed due to Soviet repression. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Army total 1,140,429 killed and 295,247 wounded. This figure is cited in reference works dealing with World War II. Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Holocaust victims, German war crimes, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, Allied war crimes, and deaths due to war-related famine and disease. 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. p. 252, Waller Wynne, Population of Czechoslovakia. R. J. Rummel estimates the civilian victims of Japanese democide at 5,964,000. The official Russian figure for total POW held by the Germans is 4,059,000; the number of Soviet, Conscripted reservists is an estimate of men called up, primarily in 1941, who were killed in battle or died as. On 16 November the Allies started a large scale autumn offensive called Operation Queen. Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2005; Gregory Frumkin. C. Deliberate acts of reprisal against target populations were perpetrated by all combatants. Estonian State Commission on Examination of Policies of Repression;The White Book: Losses inflicted on the Estonian nation by occupation regimes. The following notes summarize German expulsion casualties, the details are presented in the flight and expulsion of Germans (19441950), the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union' and the Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans. Andaman & Nicobar Islands: 900, 1,500, (2,400) Military losses with USSR against Japan in the 1939, During World War II Japan occupied Nauru in August 1942 and deported 1,200. Initial successes in bad weather, which gave them cover from the Allied air forces, resulted in a German penetration of over 80km (50mi) to within less than 16km (10mi) of the Meuse. Figure does not include the Nazi euthanasia program, German Federal Archive, Siegel, Silke Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451948. The military's complicity extended not only to the generals and upper leadership but also to the rank and file. By 1940, 48,773 were purged - 90 percent of its generals, 80 percent of its colonels, and half of its core commanders - leaving the army with unskilled officers, few trained leaders, and poor morale. 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. Bureau odszkodowan wojennych, Statement on war losses and damages of Poland in 19391945. Rossiia i SSSR v voinakh XX veka: Poteri vooruzhennykh sil; statisticheskoe issledovanie OLMA-Press, 2001; ISBN 5-224-01515-4 Table 176", "Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2014-2015 p.38", "The "Debt of Honour Register" from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission", "Service Files of the Second World War War Dead, 19391947", "Seconde Guerre mondiale: tombs sous les bombes "amies", Bundesarchiv Euthanasie im Nationalsozialismus, "Bundeszentrale fr politische Bildung, Die Vertreibung der Deutschen aus den Gebieten jenseits von Oder und Neie", "Bundesamt fr Bevlkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe Hampe: Der zivile Luftschutz im Zweiten Weltkrieg", Zahl der Vertreibungsopfer ist neu zu erforschen Rdiger Overmans Deutschlandfunk. Archivalien und ausgewhlte Erlebnisberichte. 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. Moscow, Nauka, 1993; S. N. Mikhalev, Liudskie poteri v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 19411945 gg: Statisticheskoe issledovanie, Krasnoiarskii gos. Martin Gilbert estimates 5.7million (78%) of the 7.3million Jews in German-occupied Europe were Holocaust victims. The Eastern Front, which stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, was more than twice as long as the Western Front. 2,055,575 German soldiers surrendered between D-Day and 16 April 1945, The Times, 19 April p 4; 755,573 German soldiers surrendered between 1 and 16 April, The Times, 18 April p 4, which means that 1,300,002 German soldiers surrendered to the Western Allies between D-Day and the end of March 1945. 41112. If the British refused to agree to a peace treaty, one option was to invade. 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. American military dead#^BF1, The reasons for the high human toll in Yugoslavia were as follows 4-The figures for Army wounded add up to 4,219,211. [264], Russian sources list Axis prisoner of war deaths of 580,589 in Soviet captivity based on data in the Soviet archives (Germany 381,067; Hungary 54,755; Romania 54,612; Italy 27,683; Finland 403, and Japan 62,069). Mai 1974. Losses by branch of service: Army 201,405; Navy 22,034; Air Force 9,096; Colonial Forces 354; Chaplains 91; Fascist militia Since the collapse of the USSR, Polish scholars have been able to do research in the Soviet archives on Polish losses during the Soviet occupation. Ellis provides no figure for Danish casualties, he places Norwegian losses at 2,000 killed or missing with no information provided on those wounded or captured. Moluccas: 2,600, 1,800, (4,400) 14,072 dead while POWs), Wirtschaft und Statistik November 1949 pp. Total deaths from 1940 to 1953 due to the war and the Soviet occupation were approximately 83,000 persons (7.3% of the population). (1956) A German government study put German air war dead at 635,000; 500,000 killed by allied strategic bombing and 135,000 refugees killed during the evacuations from eastern Europe in 1945. The statistics tabulated by the CWGC are representative of the number of names commemorated for all servicemen/women of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth and former UKDependencies, whose death was attributable to their war service. Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths and wounded caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject. Colonial forces are not included in these figures. The death toll attributable to the flight and expulsions was estimated at 2.2million by the West German government in 1958. [1] Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 5056million, with an additional estimated 1928million deaths from war-related disease and famine. "Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Netherlands" (PDF). After the reoccupation by the USSR, 16,000 Estonians died in Soviet repressions during 194453. The Auckland War Museum puts the number of World War II dead at 11,671. , , ed. Most of the troops were Canadian, with some British contingents and a small American and Free French presence along with British and Polish naval support. E. Bruce Reynolds, "Aftermath of Alliance: The Wartime Legacy in Thai-Japanese Relations". Eng. According to the College of Education of the University of South Florida "Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy". Total Bulgarian military war dead were 18,500 including 6,671 battle deaths. [244] The Soviet-era archive figures on the Gulag labor camps has been the subject of a vigorous academic debate outside Russia since their publication in 1991. Recent studies published in Russia put the actual corrected population in 1940 at 192.598million. This was also the period in which the United Kingdom and France did not supply significant aid to Poland, despite their pledged alliance. But Nazi Germany's military position had been hopeless ever since she had failed to drive the Allied forces into the sea on D-Day. An earlier estimate made in 1987 by Franciszek Proch of the Polish Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi and Soviet Concentration Camps estimated the total dead due to the Soviet occupation at 1,050,000. Seventh Army and French First Army) fought a difficult campaign through the Vosges Mountains that was marked by dogged German resistance and slow advances. Detailed by country: Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian deaths at 20,365,000. During the push east, the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Magdeburg, Halle and Leipzig were strongly defended by ad hoc German garrisons made up of regular troops, Flak units, Volkssturm and armed Nazi Party auxiliaries. They reported, "The total number who were killed by the Japanese, or who died from, hunger, disease and lack of medical attention is estimated at 3,000,000 for Java alone, 1,000,000 for the Outer Islands. [45], This article is about the West European theatre. As had so often happened on the Eastern Front Hitler refused to allow a strategic withdrawal until it was too late. Total war dead of 357,116; Navy (50,758); Army (144,079); Air Force (69,606); Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (624); German casualties based on statistics collected during the war included 27,074 KIA, 18,384 MIA and 111,034 WIA. Major German units in the French southwest that had not been committed in Normandy withdrew, either eastwards towards Alsace (sometimes directly across the US 6th Army Group's advance) or into the ports with the intention of denying them to the Allies. Fighting began with Operation Weserbung, the German invasion of Denmark and Norway, in April, 1940. Operations ceased at 2301 hours Central European time (CET) on 8 May. 39,929 Casualties For four brutal years, the Allies had been fighting the central powers, the Empires of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Schramm put the total at 4,188,057. Civilians 7,500 (3,600 Merchant seaman, 1,500 resistance fighters, 1,800 civilians killed and 600 Jews killed)[94] The Black Forest and Baden were overrun by the French First Army.[when?] After years of war, the United Kingdom and France were exhausted. [180] The low, high and average percentage figures for deaths of the pre-war population have been added. According to a report compiled by the Relief Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare in March 1964, combined Japanese Army and Navy deaths during the war (193745) numbered approximately 2,121,000; broken down as follows: In 1949 the report of the Japanese government Economic Stabilization Board put military war dead from December 1941 to December 21, 1946, at 1,555,308 Killed and 309,402 wounded. The Allies had been arguing about whether to advance on a broad-front or a narrow-front from before D-Day. Andreev EM; Darsky LE; Kharkova TL, Population dynamics: consequences of regular and irregular changes. Under Japanese internment, 992 died and another 544 were listed as "unknown"; under German internment, 168 died and a further 715 were listed as "unknown". Hellmuth Auerbach: Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft. The sources for the casualties of the individual nations do not use the same methods, and civilian deaths due to starvation and disease make up a large proportion of the civilian deaths in China and the Soviet Union. Universe, Inc. (July 13, 2005). 1939 WWII Era France Soldiers in Observation Post . German sources do not provide figures for Soviet citizens conscripted by Germany. Estimated civilian deaths range from about 14 to 17 million. MacDonald, C (2005), The Last Offensive: The European Theater of Operations. ), The preliminary data for Canadian losses included killed 37,476, missing 1,843, wounded 53,174 and. 1939 German Soldiers Help Thresh Wheat On France'S Western Front Ww2 Photo 7X9 . This belief is untrue. [Tokyo], 1949, pp. Russian demographer Boris Urlanis estimated Czechoslovak war dead of 340,000 persons, 46,000 military and 294,000 civilians. 73538. Census Bureau cited the following source for the population at 1/1/1939 for Czechoslovakia, State Statistical Office, Statistical Bulletin of Czechoslovakia, v. II (1947) no. Aufl. in Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Before 1991. 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 annual death rate in 19421945 of Americans interned by Japan was about 3.5%. The local, According to an official U.S. report during the. The West German government in made a rough estimate in 1956 of 20,000 civilians killed during the 1945 military campaign in current post war German borders, not including the former German territories in Poland. The commission found that the demographic estimates by the German government of 220,000 to 270,000 civilian deaths due to expulsions from Czechoslovakia were based on faulty data. The Italian front is considered a separate but related theater. Solomon Islands: 63,200, 25,000, (88,200) Mai 1974. 2-These statistics include casualties of the volunteer forces from the Soviet Union. Schramm put the total at 4,188,057. The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Gtz von Berlichingen was located just south of the Loire in the vicinity of Tours. The casualties listed here include 19 to 25million war-related famine deaths in the USSR, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and India that are often omitted from other compilations of World War II casualties.[14][15]. Ingo Haar, "Straty zwiazane z wypedzeniami: stan bada, problemy, perspektywy", Die Flucht der deutschen Bevlkerung 1944/45, "Does Germany owe Greece wartime reparations money? The U.S. Bureau of the Census published a report in 1954 that concluded that Yugoslav war-related deaths were 1,067,000. U.S. Dept. Bilanz der Forschung unter besonderer Bercksichtigung der Wehrmacht- und Vertreibungsverluste, in: Der Zweite Weltkrieg. China after Pearl Harbor 202,958 killed and 88,920 wounded. Published in Schulze, Rainer, Flchtlinge und Vertriebene in der westdeutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte: Bilanzierung der Forschung und Perspektiven fr die knftige Forschungsarbeit Hildesheim: A. Lax, 1987. Defending the Ardennes were troops of the US First Army. The non-belligerent United States contributed to the Western Allies by discounted sales of military equipment and supplies. [254] Michael Haynes and Rumy Husun accept the figures from the Soviet archives as being an accurate tally of Stalin's victims, they maintain that the demographic data depicts an underdeveloped Soviet economy and the losses in World War Two rather than indicating a higher death toll in the Gulag labor camps. David M. Glantz, Siege of Leningrad 1941 1944 Cassell 2001. p. 30(500,000 civilians in Japan and 300,000 overseas, figures of Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare), Ishikida, Miki (2005). Retrieved 4 March 2016. Data from the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation puts the number of Dutch POW captured by the Japanese at 37,000 of whom 8,500 died. Second phase: July-September 1916 universitet, 2000; (Russian Academy of Sciences). Soviet sources list the deaths of 474,967 of the 2,652,672 German Armed Forces, Estimated total Soviet military war dead in 194145 on the. They estimated German casualties up until April 30, 1945, at 2,230,324 dead, 2,870,404 missing and POW held by Allies. ed. p. 273; Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito, Ishikida, Miki (2005). [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. ^BF United States (1993). With an introd. 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. These figures are for Germany in 1937 borders. Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961, pp. A raid on Sark on the night of 3/4 October 1942 is notable because a few days after the incursion the Germans issued a propaganda communiqu implying at least one prisoner had escaped and two were shot while resisting having their hands tied. : -Human Losses of the USSR in the Period of WWII: Collection of Articles. 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. Civilian losses due to attacks on merchant shipping were 470 merchant mariners and 502 passengers. The source of the figures is Vadim Erlikman[ru]. Germany: 157,621 casualties (27,074 dead (The final count of the German dead is possibly as high as 49,000 men when including the losses suffered by the Kriegsmarine, because of additional non-combat causes, the wounded who died of their injuries, and the missing who were confirmed as dead. Archivalien und ausgewhlte Erlebnisberichte. Bonn 1989, pp. Bevlkerungsbilanzen fr die deutschen Vertreibungsgebiete 1939/50.Herausgeber: Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1958. Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 19311945, Transaction 2007; Japan Statistical Year-Book, 1949 [etc.]. [Tokyo], 1949, p. 1058, Tables 60809, Annual Changes in Population of Japan Proper 1 October 19201 October 1947, General Headquarters for the Allied Powers Economic and Scientific Section Research and Programs Division. On 4 April the encirclement was completed and the Ninth Army reverted to the command of Bradley's 12th Army Group. [242][243], The total war dead in the USSR includes about 1million[244] victims of Stalin's regime. During World War II, 14,059 American POWs died in enemy captivity throughout the war (12,935 held by Japan and 1,124 held by Germany). Mark Axworthy. 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. After the reoccupation by the USSR, 5,000 Estonians died in Soviet prisons during 194445. Total losses were 420,000 British, 200,000 French . 1- The summary report of September 30, 1945 put total casualties for the entire period of the war at 305,000 killed and 780,000 wounded. [42] The British and Americans contemplated an airborne operation before the attack. Missing and presumed dead(including POWs) were 131,419 (111,579 pre-armistice, 19,840 post armistice)[446] 3,700 Dutch nationals in the German armed forces and 7,500 missing and presumed dead in Germany and 16,000 deaths [598] The USHMM reports between 77,000 and 99,000 persons were killed at the Jasenovac and Stara Gradika concentration camps. 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 Germans in France were now faced by three powerful Allied army groups: in the north the British 21st Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, in the center the American 12th Army Group, commanded by General Omar Bradley and to the south the US 6th Army Group commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers. There were 3,000 civilian deaths in Allied air raids including 1,400 in the bombing of Sofia. The names of individual U.S. military personnel killed in World War II can be found at the U.S. National Archives. An additional 700,000 were taken prisoner by the Soviets were 50,000 died in forced labor in the USSR and Outer Mongolia. HEC No. 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. According to the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare 65,000 soldiers and civilians were killed in the 1945 military campaign against the Soviet Union. 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. [147] The British, Canadians, French, and other allies in the west lost slightly over 60,000 dead". The port of Antwerp was liberated on 4 September by the British 11th Armoured Division. This was followed by a tedious campaign to clear a peninsula dominating the estuary, and finally, the amphibious assault on Walcheren Island in November. With its main thrust again through the Hrtgen Forest, the offensive drove the Allies to the Rur River, but failed in its core objectives to capture the Rur dams and pave the way towards the Rhine. 95% of POWs taken by the Germans on the Western front survived. [415][416][417][418][419][420][421][422], Military war dead With the Luftwaffe unable to defeat the RAF in the Battle of Britain, the invasion of Great Britain could no longer be thought of as an option. - (Russian Academy of Sciences). Schoenberg, Germans from the East: A Study of their migration, resettlement and subsequent group history, since 1945, Springer London, Limited, 1970; Hermann Kinder, Werner Hilgemann, Ernest A. Menze, Anchor Atlas of World History, Vol. 3568. While the U.S. Ninth and First Armies held their ground from Magdeburg through Leipzig to western Czechoslovakia, Eisenhower ordered three Allied field armies (1st French, and the U.S. Lesser Sundas: 51,800, 1,200, (53,000) Albanian official statistics claim somewhat higher losses. Total losses reached an estimated 400,000 men. Determined stands were made in April by German forces at Heilbronn, Nuremberg, and Munich but were overcome after several days.[when?] 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World WarII and 16 were killed in action. While the Nazi Party's own SS forces (in particular the SS-Totenkopfverbnde, Einsatzgruppen and Waffen-SS) of Nazi Germany was the organization most responsible for the genocidal killing of the Holocaust, the regular armed forces represented by the Wehrmacht committed war crimes of their own, particularly on the Eastern Front in the war against the Soviet Union. The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Nor do the figures include additional deportations after the war). The West German government did not list euthanasia victims along with the war dead. Eng. Soviet sources list the deaths of 403 of the 2,377 Finnish. pedagog. (1 January 1995). 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. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, others I have cooked just . The number of deaths in the Gulag labor camps increased as a result of wartime overcrowding and food shortages. The attack started on 16 December in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge. Although the great powers of Europe had declared war on one another, neither side had yet committed to launching a significant attack, and there was relatively little fighting on the ground. The majority of the British and elements of the French forces escaped at Dunkirk. (1989); Gerhard Reichling, Die deutschen Vertriebenen in Zahlen, Teil 1, Bonn 1995 (revised ed), Christoph Bergner, Secretary of State of Germany's Bureau for Inner Affairs, outlines the stance of the respective governmental institutions in. German Army GroupG surrendered to US forces at Haar, in Bavaria, on 5 May. 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. Belgian casualties are placed at 7,500 killed or missing, 15,850 wounded, and 200,000 captured. The distinction between military and civilian casualties caused directly by warfare and collateral damage is not always clear-cut. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. On 15 August the Allies launched Operation Dragoon the invasion of Southern France between Toulon and Cannes. The Japanese interned 105,530 Dutch civilians in the East Indies, of whom 13,567 died. A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis. Thomas M. Leonard, John F. Bratzel, George Lauderbaugh. Tokyo, July 1948. p.20, Japan Statistical Year-Book, 1949 [etc.]. Sources for total Chinese war dead are divergent and range from 10 to 20million as detailed below. Elements of the US 3rd Infantry Division were the first Allied troops to arrive at Berchtesgaden, which they secured, while the French 2nd Armoured Division seized the Berghof (Hitler's Alpine residence) on 4 May 1945. According to U.S. War Department figures, 18,745 American civilians were interned in the war (13,996 in the Far East and 4,749 in Europe). On 19 August, the French Resistance (FFI) organised a general uprising and the liberation of Paris took place on 25 August when general Dietrich von Choltitz accepted the French ultimatum and surrendered to general Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, commander of the Free French 2nd Armored Division, ignoring orders from Hitler that Paris should be held to the last and destroyed. Military dead were estimated with Soviet forces at 15,000 and 5,000 with German. While the majority of the German army was mustered for the invasion of the Soviet Union, construction began on the Atlantic Wall a series of defensive fortifications along the French coast of the English Channel. The database contains civilians in case they have been buried at a military cemetery. [392] English language sources put the death toll at 2 to 3million based on the West German government statistical analysis of the 1950s. The Austrian government provides the following information on human losses during the rule of the Nazis. pedagog. As the Allies advanced across France, their supply lines stretched to breaking point. (1.5million in prewar 1937 Germany, (1958) A West German government demographic study estimated 2,225,000 civilians died during the flight during the war, post war expulsions and the, (1965), The search service of the German churches and Red Cross was able to confirm 473,013 civilian deaths in eastern Europe due to the expulsions, broken out as follows: 367,392 Poland (in post war borders); 18,889, (1966) The West German Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims issued a statement that put the number of expulsion dead at 2,111,000 (1,225,000 Germany in 1937 borders, (1985) A demographic analysis which has the support of the German government, estimated 2,020,000 civilians died during the post war expulsions and the, The German government currently maintains that 2.0million civilians perished in the flight and expulsion from Eastern Europe. 25,000, ( 53,000 ) Albanian official statistics claim somewhat higher losses up until April 30, 1945, 2,230,324... 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