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World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.
The 1995 Polish estimate of military dead and missing was 95,000-97,000 and 130,000 wounded in the 1939 campaign, including 17–19,000 killed by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacre [2] A 2000 study by the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office estimated total German military dead at 15,000 in September 1939.
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
World War II: 2,303 Battle of Cape Bon: 1941 World War II: 817 Battle of the Java Sea: 1942 World War II: 2,336 Battle of Midway: 1942 World War II: 3,364 Battle of Santa Cruz Islands: 1942 World War II: 766 Battle of Savo Island: 1942 World War II: 1217 Naval Battle of Casablanca: 1942 World War II: 636 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: 1943 World ...
Brazilian military personnel killed in World War II (1 P) British casualties of World War II (3 C) C. ... Pages in category "World War II casualties by nationality"
Armored Champion: The Top Tanks of World War II. Stackpole. ISBN 978-0811714372. Zaloga, Steven (2006). US Armored Units in the North African and Italian Campaigns 1942-45. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84176-966-0.
Statistics for German World War II military casualties are divergent. The wartime military casualty figures compiled by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (the German High Command, abbreviated as OKW) through January 31, 1945 are often cited by military historians in accounts of individual campaigns in the war.