Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg in europäischen Ländern
Von Cyr8s
Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg in europäischen Ländern
Von Cyr8s
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Fun Fact: 17% of a population who were surprised attacked and had no time to prepare nor defend, and, for those who had survived, sent to concentration camps to live our their final years. That is insane. What a waste of life.
Poland and USSR suffered a lot
But mostly poland though
How did Sweden lose so many? I thought they were neutral
Given how brutal the fighting in Italy was it’s kind of incredible their death rate was that low.
Italy didn’t lose that much.
I think being born in 1900 in terotory of Poland would be as close to hell as humanly possible.
Lets say you are born in Kalisz, city in russian Empire on border with Germany. When you are a teenager, ww1 starts. You are too young to join army lucky, but your city is destroyed by Germans as example (destruction of Kalisz 1914). Before war ends you seen a battles in which Poles from Germany and Austria were shooting at Poles from russia.
If you survive then just after the war a greater Poland uprising starts and you once again fight Germans.
For your 18th birthday a Polish-Bolshevik war starts
At 39 ww2 plunges europe into chaos for 6 years you have almost 20% chances of being killed.
WW2 ends with soviet occupation, if you were in a Polosh underfround forces during ww2 you might get sent to prison right after war ended. Even if not you love in a communist totalotatian state.
Only at 89years if age, your country would see true freedom.
Holy – I thought the Russians had it bad.
The Poles, Lithuanians, and Latvians had it much worse.
What about the Greeks and Serbians – we never hear about them and they almost had it as bad as the Russians.
Switzerland
the scale of loss is really sobering here
Norway lost 5 times more casualties than Sweden, but the same in percentage terms?
The only way that is accurate is if Norway’s population was 5 times larger than Sweden.
Which it wasn’t.
Eastern European countries had so much losses because Germans practiced genocidal war here. Their main goal was to get „lebensraum“ here. On other words they needed land without natives here to settle it by Germans.
Is it not a symptom/symbol of purity culture, when we can’t even put a swastika on a historical map for fear of being demonetized or otherwise banned?
Didn’t know inverted Japan existed in the middle of Europe. jk
That color scheme makes no sense
The one that surprises me most is Finland. Fought the Winter War against the Soviet invasion. Then invaded the Soviets as allies with Germany. Then fought the fucking Germans when they came to an understanding with the Soviets. And still „only“ 2.5% losses. Honestly not bad!
So Sweden and Norway are both listed at ~0.3%.
Yet Norway’s casualties are 5x Sweden’s, despite Sweden having had over 2x Norway’s population in 1940.
Seems Sweden should be ~0.03%.
Jews: 6,000,000 – 33% of the population
Why is Sweden listed here but not, say, Ireland, Switzerland, or Spain?
Its crazy to see it laid out like this.
Looking at russias massive casualties… more than any two other nations combined and yet still only about a 10th of their population.
I was just reading Anthony Beevors „Stalingrad“ as I felt kinda offended at how it was barely a footnote in my History classes (USA). The USA likes to think they defeated the nazis, and while american intervention was a key turning point the fact that the Nazis wore themselves down to a nub of their former force by just wasting their best men, equipment, and commanders in the meat grinder of Stalingrad.
They were truly defeated by a bloody, authoritarian, communist regime who was just as willing to force souls into the meat grinder at a matching rate and ultimately won because even after Germany had exhausted all its reserves on the eastern front, Russia had SO MUCH population and equipment building facility that was left over they were able to counter attack and encircle the Sixth Army.
20 Million people and it was still just a tenth of their population. It really does put into scale how MASSIVE it all was and the futility of any of the failed campaigns into the russian steppe.
Other people died outside Holocaust? No way
At which stage of the censorship process was the swastika removed from the German flag?
OP? AI? Reddit? Someone else?
Just awful. My great grandfather (Norway), was killed while fishing on his boat. A german plane sank it while he was in the machine room. The two others on the boat survived
What a waste!
In fact, there are 27 million victims in the USSR.
This is the most up-to-date official data.
The maps talks about casualties and deaths as if they were the same thing.
Does the 6.9 million in Germany include only soldiers or the civilians that were murdered by the state?
Wow Poland lost the highest percentage of of population by far!!
Let’s all remember how Denmark surrendered to Nazi in 2 hrs
Is this the values of deaths from 1938?
Or total across the entire war?
What sticks out me is how Bulgaria came out *relatively* unscathed, especially compared to all of its neighbors.
Soviet Union lost over 27 million soldiers to be precise. That’s diabolical.