Passage: Estimates for the total number of casualties in the war vary, because many deaths went unrecorded. Most suggest that some 60 million people died in the war, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians.Many of the civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation. The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilian deaths. A quarter of the people in the Soviet Union were wounded or killed. Germany sustained 5.3 million military losses, mostly on the Eastern Front and during the final battles in Germany. Of the total number of deaths in World War II, approximately 85 per cent—mostly Soviet and Chinese—were on the Allied side. Many of these deaths were caused by war crimes committed by German and Japanese forces in occupied territories. An estimated 11 to 17 million civilians died as a direct or as an indirect result of Nazi racist policies, including the Holocaust of around 6 million Jews, half of whom were Polish citizens, along with at least 1.9 million ethnic Poles. Millions of other Slavs , Roma, homosexuals, and other ethnic and minority groups were also killed. Between 1941 and 1945, over 200,000 ethnic Serbs, along with gypsies and Jews, were persecuted and murdered by the Axis-aligned Croatian Ustaše in Yugoslavia. Also, over 100,000 Poles were massacred by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the Volhynia massacres, between 1943 and 1945.
Approximately how many Soviet civilians die in the war? Approximately how many civilians died in the war in total? How many factors contributed to the greater amount of civilian deaths? How many more civilians than military personnel died in the Soviet Union during the war? How many years did World War II last? How many years did the Volhynia massacres and the persecution of the Serbs overlap? How many years was the time span where over 200,000 ethnic Serbs, along with gypsies and Jews were persecuted and murdered by the Axis-aligned Croatian Ustase in Yugoslavia? How many years were Poles massacred by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ? How many years were ethnic Serbs persecuted? How many years were the ethnic Serbs persecuted? In the Soviet Union, who incurred more deaths, military or civilian? Over how many years ethnic Serbs persecuted? Over how many years were 100,000 Poles massacred by the Axis-aligned Croatian Ustaše in Yugoslavia? What was Germany's military casualty total? Who had more deaths, military personnel or civilians? Who had the most deaths on the Allied side? Who lost more military in the war, The Soviet Union or Germany? Who lost more people during the war, The Soviet Union or Germany?