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World War II casualties
Contents
Total dead
Recent historical scholarship
Classification of casualties
Human losses by country
Total deaths
Third Reich
USSR
The estimated breakdown for each Soviet Republic of total war dead is as follows
Holocaust deaths
Jewish deaths
Non-Jews persecuted and killed by the Nazis
Roma losses by country
Japanese war crimes
Repression in the Soviet Union
Military casualties by branch of service
Commonwealth military casualties
Charts and graphs
See also
Footnotes
References
External links

Content: The German Army historian Rüdiger Overmans published a study in 2000 that estimated German military dead and missing at 5.3 million. War dead totals in this article for the British Commonwealth are based on the research of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Classification of casualties
Katyn 1943 exhumation. Photo by Polish Red Cross delegation. Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject. Historians often put forward many different estimates of the numbers killed during World War II. The authors of the Oxford Companion to World War II maintain that casualty statistics are notoriously unreliable The table below gives data on the number of dead for each country, along with population information to show the relative impact of losses. When scholarly sources differ on the number of deaths in a country, a range of war losses is given, in order to inform readers that the death toll is disputed. Military figures include battle deaths (KIA) and personnel missing in action (MIA), as well as fatalities due to accidents, disease and deaths of prisoners of war in captivity. Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Holocaust victims, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, other War Crimes and deaths due to war related famine and disease.