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The country which may have suffered the most deaths was China with total fatalities estimated at between 15 to 20 million
As far as 9 million deaths in Germany, does that include the approximately 5 million German Jews murdered in the camps, at the hand of the SS, etc ?
If yes, then only 4 million non-Jewish Germans died in World War 2. Not a bad loss when you consider the Germans were the ones who started all that shit.
Wiki says that Nazis murdered 165,000 German Jews. Most of Jewish murders were in Poland - 2.1M killed.
YUGE numbers of Russians, esp. POWs, killed by the Nazis.
Sometimes they just locked them in barns and burned it.
Jews were only the snack before the big Slav meal.
The report drafted by Judge Möller singled out the Jews as responsible for the Soviet atrocities.
Nazis killed nearly 3M Polish people as well. Where I am from, the Polish suffered more than Russians.
With enthusiastic support from Ukrainian Nationalists
Revanchism
Nazis killed nearly 3M Polish people as well. Where I am from, the Polish suffered more than Russians.
And they hated us for that. We basically used the Soviets to bloody up the Germans so we could invade YEARS later on D-Day with a lot fewer Wehrmacht & Luftwaffe to face.
Do you think that there will be something like that in the USA with "expropriation" of the western USA to the Hispanic speaking population (i.e., La Raza crowd) while there is a final push for reparations for slavery ?
Again, what is ironic is that most of the ranks of the La Raza crowd look very indigenous or Mayan. They don't look like original Spanish-speaking conquerors.
They were gambling on the Nazis instantly fighting with the Soviets and cheered when reports of Soviets entering Poland came in.
The German High Command KNEW what would happen if the Russians gobbled up most of Germany first (pretty much what happened to East Germany).
How many more Polish killed by Russians or forcefully recruited to fight against the Germans?
Do you think that there will be something like that in the USA with "expropriation" of the western USA to the Hispanic speaking population (i.e., La Raza crowd) while there is a final push for reparations for slavery ?
A more simple explanation was that the French had millions of dead in WW1 and had no appetite for battle.
Russians looted and stole (or "expropriated") as much as they could, as well as enslaved as many POWs as they could in work camps.
That's a factor, but France was very divided politically and the later 20s and 30s, Pacificism was a major political belief.
The Greeks are now reconsidering the reparations owed by Germany
May be a good time to do that since Greece's debt to gdp ratio is + 250%.
Unfortunately this may not be as well received by the Germans who can't be anymore generous since their debt to gdp ratio is high as well, DESPITE military spending only being about 1.3% of GDP.
When trying to understand the devastation suffered by a country, it is advantageous to look at the percentage of its population who died as a result of the war. The general consensus is that 50 million to 80 million people died. On September 1, 1939, the day World War II started, the world’s population was approximately 2.3 billion. It is estimated 3.0 to 3.7 percent of the world’s population perished as a result of World War II.
The Soviet Union suffered 21% more casualties than Americans in World War II.
Most estimates agree the Soviet Union suffered the highest number of total deaths in World War II, between 22 and 28 million. The population of the Soviet Union was 194,100,000. This represents a total loss of 14.0% of its population. On the other hand, the United States suffered 420,000 deaths out of a population of 131,028,000 which represents 0.32% of its total population.
There are several factors which account for the incredible discrepancies in total fatalities. First the Soviet Union, like all of Europe, had been fighting the war for several years before the United States entered. Secondly, the war was fought on the soil of the Soviets and the other European countries. The civilians in these countries were caught in the middle of the great conflict and were the targets of the opposing sides. The issue of the value of life and the strategies used by the Soviet military accounted for a large number of fatalities. Finally, the Germans considered the Russians ethnically inferior and German death squads targeted Russian Jews.
The Soviets were not the only country to suffer high fatality figures. Germany suffered between 7 to 9 million deaths. With a population of over 80 million, this represents a fatality rate of over 8.0% of its total population. Poland suffered nearly 6 million dead. The Polish deaths are mostly civilians as result of the Genocide against Polish Jews. The country which may have suffered the most deaths was China with total fatalities estimated at between 15 to 20 million. With a population of well over 500 million in 1939, this represents a fatality rate of 4%.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/did-more-russians-or-americans-die-world-war-ii