Die menschlichen Kosten des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa
Von ilann62113
Die menschlichen Kosten des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa
Von ilann62113
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Belarus lost the most men compared to the general population from all the soviet “republics“. Around 25-30 % of its population, which was a true demographic catastrophe.
Oh uncommon to see Spain on this maps
This is deaths, not casualties. If it included wounded the number would be much higher
What happened in turkey? did a bus crash?
UK on 450.7k is orange vs Italy on 457k which is pale red; where is the dividing line for the colours? Seeing as the colours correspond to ranges rather than using a uniform distribution and every country being a different shade like a heat map, why was a random value used to separate them rather than a more intuitive whole number?
Why not instead separate the colours at 500k?
You need some logic to the system; e.g. 5k, 10k, 50k, 100k, 500k, 1M, 5M, 10M
Italy had remarkably low casualties considering it was one of the main players of the Axis.
how many men did lose Italy on Axis side and on allied side?
The colour coding on this map is terrible!
Why is the map using the map of Czechoslovak 2nd republic which existed only some 5 months (Oct 1938 to Mar 1939) when it’s about WW2 casualties?
Terrible map.
Ireland isn’t really right a significant amount fought in the British army
Why number as a percentage of the population can be more meaningful
**Poland:** ~18% (approx. 5.6–6 million dead)
**Soviet Union:** ~14% (approx. 24–27 million dead, with Belarus and Ukraine experiencing the highest regional devastation)
**Yugoslavia:** ~10-11% (approx. 1 million dead, with Bosnia and Montenegro suffering the heaviest regional losses)
**Germany & Austria:** ~11% (approx. 6.5–8.8 million dead)
**Greece:** ~7-11% (approx. 300,000–800,000 dead)
**Hungary:** ~5-9% (approx. 580,000 dead)
**Netherlands:** ~2.3% (approx. 200,000–300,000 dead)
**France:** ~1.5-2% (approx. 500,000–800,000 dead)
**United Kingdom:** ~1% (approx. 450,000 dead)
**Italy:** ~1% (approx. 450,000 dead)
Italy is surprisingly low.
Norway lost over 10k, what are these numbers?
Kudos to the author for not including today’s borders, making it less confusing.
Asia is p retty wild. China lost 20 million
I recently learned that Indonesia lost 3-4 Million people between 1942-1945. Mind blowing.
An estimated 3 million to 4 million people died in Indonesia (then known as the Dutch East Indies) during World War II, making it one of the highest death tolls of the entire global conflict. The vast majority of these casualties were indigenous civilian deaths resulting from severe famine, forced labour, and medical neglect under the Imperial Japanese occupation between 1942 and 1945
The German casualties/deaths is weird. Does it include all ethnic Germans as well as people in the German army. Lots of German casualties could have actually been from different countries who join German armies/claimed they were German. The South America escape too is a thing too. Lots of MIA/KIA Germans escaped to South America and other countries
Btw USA deaths: 407K. D-day was a walk in the park compared to soviet effort.
Netherlands has quite high numbers in comparison to other countries while having lower population.I am Dutch and wasnt really aware
How come Sweden is on the list as they did not take part in the war?
Greece having more deaths than italy is hard to comprehend
Denmark got off pretty well even though it was in the axis grip for so long along with norway
What type of casualties? Military only, civilian only or total (military+civilian)?
Jesus Christ, wtf happened to Portugal?!
Yugoslavia doing some heavy lifting compared to others of its size
British had a lot of colonial soldiers too. Don’t forget global south.
Damn, I didn’t realise Russia was hit so hard. My great grandfather was stationed in Russia
Everyone: dying.
Turkey: I sleep.
And I’m guessing these numbers also include civilians?
5k in the republic of Ireland, please tell me more ?
I’d be interested to know more about the deaths in Scandinavia. Sweden didn’t even fight. How did the 2000 die?
2028…hold my beer.
To quote Boney M “Oh, those Russians”. Total war for them.
Looks like surrendering early and fighting badly were the meta back then.
How did Turkey manage to stay neutral but still got 100 people killed?
Millions dead::meme.
… and again as proportions of 1939 populations.
I think the IS lost something like 300k as well. However, I think that was between both theaters. We lost far more in the pacific
The Soviet numbers are almost certainly still undercounts. Post-Soviet archival access revealed the official 27M figure misses millions of people who died in occupied zones outside state registration systems — Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Jewish communities where record-keeping infrastructure was deliberately destroyed. The best demographic reconstructions put the real toll closer to 26-27M military plus an entirely separate civilian total that may reach 15-17M beyond the fighting. The map shows what was counted, which is a different thing.
I think these are deaths, including non-combatants, not casualties.
Wild that the Swiss were able to avoid it
Deaths, yes, we were not occupied and the Soviets were pretty incompetent about terror bombing, so those are mostly young Finnish soldiers – they totally did not give their lives for nothing…
How did British manage their casualties so well and kept them under a million despite fighting nazis for almost a year alone snd fighting at the forefront of the war since 40, almost half a decade
What was their secret in preserving lives of their soldiers or they just were built tough to endure bullets well
Knowing what an impact ww2 had on the UK and France it’s horrific to see Germany and Poland lost more by an order of magnitude. And the USSR almost another order of magnitude beyond that…
Lithuania and Latvia together had more than France. That’s crazy.
„only“ 9,5k in norway?
thats a lot less than i expected