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Well I did not know what topic to put this in but I thought it was a "gobsmacking" stastitic that i did not realise, so I wanted to share this information, it made me think

 

Statistics of World War II

Including the European and Pacific Theaters

 

 

 

Countries Total Deaths % of Prewar Population Military Deaths Civilian Deaths

USSR 20,600,000 0.4% 13,600,000 7,000,000

CHINA 10,000,000 2.0%

GERMANY 6,850,000 9.5% 3,250,000 3,600,000

POLAND 6,123,000 17.2% 123,000 6,000,000

JAPAN 2,000,000 2.7%

YUGOSLAVIA 1,706,000 10.9%

FRANCE 810,000 1.9% 340,000 470,000

GREECE 520,000 7.2%

UNITED STATES 500,000 0.4% 500,000

AUSTRIA 480,000 7.2%

ROMANIA 460,000 3.4%

HUNGARY 420,000 3.0%

ITALY 410,000 0.9% 330,000 80,000

CZECHOSLOVAKIA 400,000 2.7%

GREAT BRITAIN 388,000 0.8% 326,000 62,000

NETHERLANDS 210,000 2.4% 198,000 12,000

BELGIUM 88,000 1.1% 76,000 12,000

FINLAND 84,000 2.2%

AUSTRALIA 39,000 0.3%

CANADA 34,000 0.3%

ALBANIA 28,000 2.5%

INDIA 24,000 0.01%

NORWAY 10,262 0.3%

NEW ZEALAND 10,000 0.6%

LUXEMBOURG 5,000 1.7%

TOTAL 52,199,262

 

One does not realise

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Looks like Johnny Foreigner's been fiddling his figures again !

 

When did all those French civilian casualties arise ? Are we sure that they don't include the Normandy farmers who had heart attacks when Churchill A.V.R.E.s were driven through their apple orchards ?

 

Of all wars, 39-45 presents probably the most problems in distinguishing those lost to enemy action from those who perished as a result of occupation. Wasn't (Vichy) France, for instance, officially at peace with Germany from 1940 ?

 

Did they really loose more military dead during May and June 1940 in France and Belgium (and afterwards in limited numbers elsewhere) than Britain did in six years of war, fighting in all theatres ?

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http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-statistics.htm

 

Country Initial Jewish Population Estimated % Killed Estimated Killed Number of Survivors

POLAND 3,300,000 91% 3,000,000 300,000

USSR 3,020,000 36% 1,100,000 1,920,000

HUNGARY 800,000 74% 596,000 204,000

GERMANY 566,000 36% 200,000 366,000

FRANCE 350,000 22% 77,320 272,680

ROMANIA 342,000 84% 287,000 55,000

AUSTRIA 185,000 35% 65,000 120,000

LITHUANIA 168,000 85% 143,000 25,000

NETHERLANDS 140,000 71% 100,000 40,000

BOHEMIA

MORAVIA 118,310 60% 71,150 47,160

LATVIA 95,000 84% 80,000 15,000

SLOVAKIA 88,950 80% 71,000 17,950

YUGOSLAVIA 78,000 81% 63,300 14,700

GREECE 77,380 87% 67,000 10,380

BELGIUM 65,700 45% 28,900 36,800

ITALY 44,500 17% 7,680 36,820

BULGARIA 50,000 0% 50,000

DENMARK 7,800 .8% 60 7,740

ESTONIA 4,500 44% 2,000 2,500

LUXEMBOURG 3,500 55% 1,950 1,550

FINLAND 2,000 .03% 7 1,993

NORWAY 1,700 45% 762 938

TOTAL 9,508,340 63% 5,962,129 3,546,211

 

Here are more (and different) statistics:

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/statistics.htm

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That quatation was nagging me so I Googled it, Mark Twain was the person Iwas thinking of but although it has been commonly attributed to him amongst others the University of York Maths dept has been researching it and it appears to come from an earlier period. They now attribute it to a woman I and probably no one else on this forum has ever heard of but having read their discourse on the subject it looks to me as if it has been around for much longer than is generally thought and the woman is merely quoting an earlier author.

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