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According to a report published by the Reuters News Agency, on July 29 1945 highly confidential archives found at Flensburg, in the house of General Reinecke showed German losses up to November 30, 1944, as 3.6 million, detailed in the following schedule. Source of figures: Gregory Frumkin. Population Changes in Europe Since 1939, Geneva 1951.
Nearly one-third of all homes in Great Britain and Poland were damaged or destroyed, as were roughly one-fifth of those in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia. In Germany ’s 49 largest cities, nearly 40 percent of homes were seriously damaged or destroyed.
See estimates for worldwide deaths, broken down by country, in World War II.
Estimates for the total death count of the Second World War generally range somewhere between 70 and 85 million people. The Soviet Union suffered the highest number of fatalities of...
Civilian deaths totaled 50–55 million. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21–25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union.
About 4,200,000 Germans died, and about 1,972,000 Japanese died. In all, the scale of human losses during World War II was vast. A table that details estimated deaths by country is available here .
Number of victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution 1933-1945, by background. Most estimates place the total number of deaths during the Second World War at around 70-85 million...