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#41347. jemimah
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How many people died in the first and second World Wars?
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TabbyTom
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Doug's figures probably relate to the USA alone. For total deaths, Encyclopaedia Britannica gives the following estimates:
WW One: 8,529,000
WW Two (military) 19,402,000
WW Two (civilian) 17,391,000
Nov 20 03, 3:32 PM
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Doug1230
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You know, after I posted those figs. it dawned on me how ridiculous they were. Good job Tab.
Nov 20 03, 3:37 PM
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rlaj
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I had no idea there were so many civilian deaths. I wonder what percentage of the civilian casualties were German?
Nov 20 03, 3:55 PM
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Doug1230
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The Germans suffered horrific losses after the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945. 250,000 -- possibly as many as a half a million -- people died within a 14-hour period. I would guess most of these were civilians.
Nov 20 03, 4:16 PM
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TabbyTom
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Britannica gives German civilian deaths as 780,000, or about 4½% of the world total. Russian civilian deaths are estimated at 7,000,000, Polish at 5,675,000, Yugoslav at 1,200,000 and Japanese at 672,000.
Real figures are probably higher. Britannica’s figures do not include Chinese civilian deaths, and the German figures exclude “an estimated 2,384,000 German deaths during 1944-46 resulting from Soviet invasion and forced transfers of population in the eastern provinces given to Poland after the war.”
Nov 20 03, 4:36 PM
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