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The German Red Cross reported in 2005 that the records of the WASt showed total Wehrmacht losses to have been 4.3 million men (3.1 million dead and 1.2 million missing) in World War II. Their figures include men conscripted from Austria and conscripted ethnic Germans from lands in Eastern Europe. [4]
Otherwise notable people killed serving with the German military during World War II.Note: This category is intended solely for those members of the German armed forces killed as a result of their military service and not those executed during internal purges, or those who died in Allied custody post-war.
In all 679 German soldiers perished in this fire. [27] 2 June – On the opening of the Battle of Mount Sorrel in the Ypres Salient of Belgium, the commanding officer of the 3rd Canadian Division, Major General Malcolm Mercer, and his aide Captain Lynam Gooderham, were wounded and trapped when German artillery opened fire on divisional trenches ...
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [343] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [344]
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.
German military personnel killed in World War II (10 C, 101 P) N. Nazi leaders assassinated by the Allies (2 P) Pages in category "German casualties of World War II"
The Battle of Kursk was the first time in the Second World War that a German strategic offensive was halted before it could break through enemy defences and penetrate to its strategic depths. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Though the Red Army had succeeded in winter offensives previously, their counter-offensives after the German attack at Kursk were their ...
German casualties are harder to determine, due to incomplete records. Rundstedt provided an official figure of 3,300, but this has been challenged by historians. Conservative estimates range from 6,400 to 8,000 killed and wounded. [152] [153] Kershaw listed the German order of battle, with between 6,315 and 8,925 casualties. [154]