Hungary (cited by Austrian government 1940) 845,000 Romania (1930 census) 745,000 Total 16,559,000 (est) The official death figures are listed here . Official statistics published by the West German government 1956 put the death toll due to air raids at 635,000. This is assumed to include the following regions listed by the Japanese Relief Bureau: Bonin Islands, Okinawa, Formosa (Taiwan), Islands of Central Pacific. Archaeologists exhuming the grave came . Meanwhile, 12,000 WWII German soldiers were said to have died. They were declared citizens of the Third Reich by law and therefore subject to drumhead court-martial in case of draft evasion. Wiesbaden, Distribution: F. Steiner, 1961, Page 32, Die deutschen Vertreibungsverluste. In its report of 1974 they found that 3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and 1,979 from July 1950 to 1955). This participation was more than ten percent of the United States' entire population. Source of figures Deutsche militrische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg page 286, Source:Rdiger Overmans Soldaten hinter Stacheldraht. In the post-war era the military search service Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) has been responsible for providing information for the families of those military personnel who were killed or went missing in the war. This category has only the following subcategory. Defending the German position were110,000soldiers of the 9th Army. You can search on multiple fields, such as First Name, Last Name, and City, or just a single field, such as Branch of Service.You may sort results by clicking just to the right of any of the field labels in the blue area below. Infantrymen from Regiment 506 after first days of the Russian campaign. Losses Reported by OKW Sept. 1, 1939-April 30, 1945(For all branches of service), Source: Mller-Hillebrand Das Heer 19331945 Vol 3. The German Historical Museum puts the figure at 600,000 victims, they maintain the figure of 2 million expulsion deaths cannot be supported. The World War II Databook, by John Ellis, 1993 p256. Overy maintains that the German estimates are based on incorrect speculations for losses during the final months of the war when there was a gap in the record keeping system. The number of Russian soldiers thought to have died ranges from 5,000 to 33,000, while some 12,000 German troops perished. Encyclopedia Britannica, article World Wars (2010) Military-killed, died of wounds or in prison-3,500,000; wounded-5,000,000; prisoners or missing 3,400,000; civilian deaths due to war 780,000. Population Changes in Europe Since 1939, Geneva 1951. 14 Dec 2011 | Posted by vlogger. - Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1958 See pages 102, 143,174,323 381, Rdiger Overmans- Personelle Verluste der deutschen Bevlkerung durch Flucht und Vertreibung. In 1992 when Overmans began the project, German military dead in the war listed at the military search service Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) were 4.3 million men (3.1 million confirmed dead and 1.2 missing and presumed dead). The authors maintain that the German figures for 1940 through 1943 of 111,000 killed was generally correct and that their estimate of 311,000 dead for the years 1944 and 1945 was based on the tons of bombs dropped and the population size of the cities bombed. Herausgeber: Statistisches Bundesamt - Wiesbaden. [92] There are those like Heinz Nawratil who try to equate the expulsions from Eastern Europe with the Holocaust. -Germans Remaining Abroad-Includes expelled Germans who had emigrated to other countries or were in Denmark. In 1956 the West German government figures in the table below list an estimated about 5.5 million deaths (military and civilian) directly caused by the war within the borders of 1937. 2,055,575 German soldiers surrendered between D-day and April 16, 1945, The Times, April 19 p 4; 755,573 German soldiers surrendered between April 1 and 16, The Times, April 18 p 4, which means that 1,300,002 German soldiers surrendered to the Western Allies between D-day and the end of March 1945. Source of figures Deutsche militrische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg page 286, Source:Rdiger Overmans Soldaten hinter Stacheldraht. Amongst others, the German historian Wolfgang Benz believes that the use of the term "Bombing Holocaust" runs contrary to historical fact. General Eisenhower prohibited the German Public from sharing their own meager rations with detained . Die Arbeit der Suchdienste - 60 Jahre nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, a 2005 publication of the Search Service of the Germ. Millions were killed, wounded, missing, or captured in what was perhaps . Pages in category "German military personnel killed in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 696 total. The results of the Overmans research project were published with the endorsement of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office of the Federal Ministry of Defense (Germany).[26]. George C Marshall, Biennial reports of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army to the Secretary of War: 1 July 193930 June 1945. Militrgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Bundesarchiv Euthanasie" im Nationalsozialismus, Bundesarchiv: Euthanasie-Verbrechen 1939 - 1945, Die Flucht der deutschen Bevlkerung 1944/45, http://books.google.com/books?id=vAzgsCDUky0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Peter+Antill,+Peter+Dennis,+Berlin+1945:+end+of+the+Thousand+Year+Reich&hl=en&ei=dK25TJWtLoWKlwfp_I25DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=22%2C000&f=false, "Merkel ally quits after claiming Nazis didn't start war", http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/merkel-ally-quits-after-claiming-nazis-didnt-start-war-2076379.html, By Official Cause of Death (Per R. Overmans), German military dead Eastern Front (Per R. Overmans), Add:Estimated losses of Soviet Volunteers, German POW deaths- Overmans estimate 2000, German POW Held in Captivity (Per R. Overmans), Expulsion and Deportation Civilian Dead/Missing, Based on his research Overmans believes that 459,000 dead POW listed in the files of. The figure of 104,000 killed in the Balkans includes casualties sustained against Yugoslav and Greek partisans as well as those killed as the Red Army swept much of the region in late 1944. The system was not uniform because various military branches such as the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen SS and the military hospitals each had different systems of reporting. Overmans was an associate of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office from 1987 until 2004 and was on the faculty of the University of Freiburg from 1996 to 2001. Source: Rdiger Overmans. However, this calculation never resolved the figure raised by Audenauer. [173], Casualties of German citizens during World War II, Records of German military search service, Wartime statistics compiled by German High Command (OKW), Comparison of figures at 12/31/1944 of Overmans and German High Command, German casualties in English language sources, United States Army Figures for German and Italian Losses, The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Civilians killed in 1945 military campaign, Deaths due to Nazi political, racial and religious persecution, NKVD special camps in East Germany 19451950, Expulsion of Germans after World War II and the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union, Population balance for Germany in 1937 borders (not including Austria or the ethnic Germans of East Europe): May 1939 to October 1946, Population balance for the ethnic Germans of Eastern Europe, sfn error: no target: CITEREFOvermans2000 (. Soviet sources claimed that "In 1945 the German Army lost more than 1,000,000 men killed on the Soviet-German front alone."[37]. The number of Germans who died in World War II is not clear. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. He'd also remained fiercely loyal to the defunct Imperial Army of Japan. 'German War Graves Commission'), is directed by the Federal Republic of Germany to record all the German fallen soldiers and maintain their graveyards abroad in 46 countries. Page 72. In 2005 the German Red Cross Search Service still maintained that their research put losses at 2,251,500 persons in the expulsions and deportations. [58] The number of prisoners taken in the west in March and April was over 1,800,000,[59] more than double the 800,000 German soldiers who surrendered to the Russians in the last three or four months of the war. More than 5.5 million German soldiers were killed over the course of World War II. Wirtschaft und Statistik October 1956, journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. However, in Poland it is viewed by some as an attempt to reopen the wounds of the war and to revert to pre-war borders. Soviet sources reported that "In 1945 the German Army lost more than 1,000,000 men killed on the Soviet-German front alone."[37]. According to Mller-Hillebrand actual irrecoverable losses in the war were between 3.3 and 4.5 million men. The personnel records included 3,070,000 men who were confirmed dead in the Death Files and another 15,200,000 men in the General Files who had served in the war including those listed as missing and presumed dead. In total, it is thought that the mortality rate in the camps was as high as one percent and that no more than 56,000 German prisoners died. Based on information available in January 1946, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. put German military dead at 3,250,000. Email us attips@the-sun.co.ukor call 0207 782 4368 . See also: German prisoners of war in northwest Europe, German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union and German prisoners of war in the United States, The fates of German prisoners of war have been a concern in post war Germany. 20 million Russian civilians and military died due to German war crimes.Civilian population centers were targets of Germans.Over 6 million Jews and millions of other undesirables were murdered in the concentration camps. The individuals were possibly shot dead by Russian soldiers during World War 2. [140], See Also: Flight and expulsion of Germans (194450) and Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union, Civilian deaths, due to the flight and expulsion of Germans and the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union, are sometimes included with World War II casualties. Untold millions were murdered in thousands of death camps in Eastern Europe. [46] After the collapse of communism, data from the Soviet Archives became available concerning the deaths of German POWs in the USSR. Bevlkerungsbilanzen fr die deutschen Vertreibungsgebiete 1939/50. 4-The figures for Army wounded add up to 4,219,211. They maintain the files over 18 million men who served in the war. Russian workmen laying a new water pipe in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) discovered the the 430ft long, 23ft wide, 7ft deep pit containing the bodies of 1,837 hastily buried German soldiers. 2, The number of prisoners taken in March was approaching 350,000, SHAEF Weekly Summary No. The figure rose by over 1,000 following the excavations in the grave, which measures 430ft long, 23ft wide and 7ft deep. (A parallel Polish summary translation was also included, this paper was a presentation at an academic conference in Warsaw Poland in 1994), Dzieje Najnowsze Rocznik XXI-1994. Oldenbourg 2000. The spokesman said: the beginning of October we reported 800 German war dead, in the former Stalingrad, today Volgograd. When they do focus on people, it is usually on a male soldier. [54] From early March these surrenders seriously weakened the Wehrmacht in the West, and made further surrenders more likely, thus having a snowballing effect. Deutsche Kriegsgefangene des Zweiten Weltkriege. The bombing of Dresden and the bombing campaign in general has been a topic of discussion in post-war Germany. (B) Includes 3,404,949 disarmed enemy forces. I know that the first of 2 millions of Germans killed between 1914 and 1918 was Leuntant Albert Mayer of Jger Regt-zu-Pferd Nr 5 on 2nd august 1914 during the skirmish of Joncherey. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. p. 30. Sources: Wirtschaft und Statistik October 1956, journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. - Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1958. On the third day the final line of the Seelow Heights was breached leaving nothing but fractured German divisions between the Red Army and the chancellery in Berlin. Deutsche Kriegsgefangene des Zweiten Weltkriege. The gap in vital statistics between the middle of 1944 and the end of 1945 was estimated. Almost 70% of deaths occurred in the winter of 1945-1946. 1940. Percy Ernst Schramm was responsible for maintaining the official OKW diary during the war. 3-4, "Merkel ally quits after claiming Nazis didn't start war", Centre Against Expulsions, foundation website, "Our Foundation", "Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgrberfrsorge e. V.", "Germany Still Locates 40,000 War Casualties a Year", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_casualties_in_World_War_II&oldid=1118106334, Military history of Germany during World War II, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, By Official Cause of Death (per R. Overmans), German military dead on the Eastern Front (per R. Overmans), Add:Estimated losses of Soviet Volunteers, German POW deaths- Overmans estimate 2000, German POW Held in Captivity (Per R. Overmans), Expulsion and Deportation Civilian Dead/Missing, Sources for figures: Wirtschaft und Statistik October 1956, Journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. Although, the information and pointers remain a work in progress, I hope you will find the information useful. [169] The former President of Germany Joachim Gauck and the former German chancellor Angela Merkel have voiced support for the Center Against Expulsions. Das Heer vom Beginn des Feldzuges gegen die Sowjetunion bis zum Kriegsende. -Civilian Deaths- These are deaths due to natural causes not directly related to the war. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, The mass grave was discovered accidentally by Russian workmen laying a new water pipe in Volgograd, Soldier's possessions which were found in the mass grave, Personal items such as water bottles, tags and IDs were found among the corpses, A personal item dating back to 1937 was among the many items found in the mass grave, German soldiers stand during the Battle of Stalingrad, German soldiers invading Russia which resulted in deaths of millions, A grave of a Russian fighter pilot who was buried during the Battle of Stalingrad, Around two million men were killed, wounded, or captured during the Battle of Stalingrad, Soldiers inspect their damaged tank during the deadly battle, World War II shipwreck discovered at the bottom of a harbour in Sri Lanka 75 years after the vessel was sunk by Japanese bombers, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Notes: Figures include Waffen SS, Austrians, conscripted ethnic Germans, Volkssturm and other paramilitary forces. [12][13], The West German government in November 1949, based on an analysis of the population balance for Germany within its 1937 borders, put German military losses at 3,250,000: 1,650,000 killed and 1,600,000 missing. Erika Steinbach, the current President of the Federation, provoked outrage when she supported the statements of other members of the expellee organization claiming that Hitler's attack on Poland was a response to Poland's policy. The financial support for the study came from a private foundation. In 1949 he published an article in the newspaper Die Zeit, in which he listed OKW Casualty Figures[22] these figures also appeared in a multi-volume edition of the OKW diaries. [95] The Federation of Expellees initiated the formation of the Center Against Expulsions. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Ullstein Taschenbuch vlg., 2002 Pages 272-273, Overmans has made the following points in Deutsche militrische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Previously it was reported that 70,000 persons were murdered in the euthanasia program, recent research in the archives of the former East Germany indicate that the number of victims in Germany and Austria was about 200,000. The battle of Berlin had reached its last stage. [4], A. [4][5], Civilian deaths during the war include air raid deaths, estimates of German civilians killed only by Allied strategic bombing have ranged from around 350,000[6][7] to 500,000. Figures do not include Austria. Nineteen employees at Deutsche Dienststelle assisted in the survey. The association's mission statement on its website says: 'We are searching for the nameless dead, who lay without commemorative stones in the mass graves of War or were buried somewhere, as individuals and are considered as missing. 4-The figures for Army wounded add up to 4,219,211. Figure includes deaths actually recorded from May 1939 until June 1944 and from January to October 1946. Based on his own research Bacque claims that documents from the US Archives show that there were 800,000 German POW who did not survive US captivity. The gap in vital statistics between the middle of 1944 and the end of 1945 was estimated. [24], A. Geschichte der deutschen Bevolkerung seit 1815 Steiner, Franz Verlag 1998, Wirtschaft und Statistik October 1956, figure includes 3,760,000 military dead and missing; Civilian deaths: 410,000 in air war; 20,000 in military campaign and 1,260,000 expellee deaths east of the, Wirtschaft und Statistik October 1956, Journal published by Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland. The official German figures for the final months of the war include the inflated total of 60,000 deaths from the, Overy based his analysis on data in German archival sources for the years 1940-1942 and the Civilian Defense Division report of. p.283, also stated in the introduction) actually died in 1945. . According to Gregory Frumkin this presumably referred to aggregate German forces including those conscripted outside the 1937 German borders. The total sample pulled for the research consisted of the files of 4,844 personnel dead or missing in military service during the war: The first group 4,137 from Army, Air Force and 172 from Waffen SS and paramilitary organizations including (3,051 confirmed dead from the Death Files and another 1,258 found to be dead or missing in the General Files) The Second Group of 535 men found to be dead or missing was selected from the separate Navy files. Band III. The figures include those killed in the 1945 military campaign and the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union. In the post war era the military search service Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) has been responsible for providing information for the families of those military personnel who were killed or went missing in the war. The research by Overmans concluded in 2000 that the total German military dead and missing were 5,318,000. Overmans maintains that many individual reports of casualties were not processed by the end of the war and are not reflected in the German High Command (OKW) statistics.[21]. The grave was discovered accidentally by Russian workmen laying a new water pipe in Volgograd. They did not provide details of the figure [65]. Military archaeologists are currently identifying the troops, and are hoping that the relatives of. This figure was to remain unchallenged until the 1990s when some German historians put the actual death toll in the expulsions at 500,000 confirmed deaths. He believes that the previous studies by the German government should be subject to critical revision and new research is needed to establish the actual number of expulsion deaths.[141]. He believes that in addition to the 363,000 confirmed POW dead in the USSR. Militrgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, United States Strategic Bombing Survey,Civilian Defense Division final report. However, it is estimated that at least 6.9 million of them were killed and another 7.3 million wounded. [81] The German Church Service put the total of confirmed expulsion dead at about 300,000 for Germany in the 1937 borders, the balance of 960,000 were reported as missing and whose fate had not been clarified.[73]. The US military historian Stephen Ambrose was co-editor of the book Eisenhower and the German POWs in which he refutes Bacques claims. Poland's dead at between 5.6 and 5.8 million. Russian POW at the Regiment HQ. Figure includes civilian deaths in the 1945 military campaign, the forced labor in the USSR as well as excess deaths due to post war famine and disease. As many as 20,000 US soldiers died during the . Dead Russian soldier, 1941. Marshall's figure is 128,000. The following studies were published by the West German government estimating expulsion deaths. Lasting from August 1942 to February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad was the largest battle of World War II and in the history of warfare. In addition, 247,000 Austrians lost their lives serving in the army of the Third Reich or were reported missing, and 24,000 civilians were killed during bombing raids. However, the position of the German government, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education and the German Red Cross is that the death toll in the expulsions is between 2.0 to 2.5 million civilians. [35], Monthly German military casualties at point of death per Overmans study. (ISBN 9783881990738) Pages 1508-1511, 1-These statistics include losses of the Waffen SS as well as Volkssturm and paramilitary serving with the regular forces.[3]. Their figures include Austria and conscripted ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. Karl Cramm's father was one of the more than 1 million German soldiers still considered missing after WWII. According to Overmans, the casualty reporting system broke down in the chaos at the end of the war. Figures for missing include POW held by Allies. Often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, World War II encircled the globe, forcing nearly every country on Earth to align with one of two massive military alliances: the Axis powers, led by Germany, Italy, and Japan; or the Allies, led by Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and China. The dig, in Klessin, Brandenburg, brought to the light weapons, helmets, boots and the bones of those fighting to protect the murderous Third Reich. The Daily Telegraph Story of the War Vol. World War II was the largest and deadliest armed conflict in the history of mankind. The 83-year-old had last seen him when he was just a boy . Bacque alleges that General Eisenhower and the US military deliberately withheld support for the German POW, causing their deaths. [92] This view is shared by the vast majority of the Germans. [74], A humanitarian organisation, known as (German: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgrberfrsorge, lit. WW2 Casualties in Germany. Figures do not include POW deaths of 363,000 in Soviet captivity; these losses were listed separately by Overmans. Monthly figures do not add because of rounding. Bevlkerungsbilanzen fr die deutschen Vertreibungsgebiete 1939/50.Herausgeber: Statistisches Bundesamt - Wiesbaden. Deutsche Kriegsgefangene des Zweiten Weltkriege. [64], See Also: Flight and expulsion of Germans (194450) and Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union, Civilian deaths due to the Flight and expulsion of Germans (194450) and the Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union are sometimes included with World War II Casualties. (3) Erich Hampe "Der Zivile Luftschutz im Zweiten Weltkrieg" pp.138-142, The United States Strategic Bombing Survey gave three different figures for German air raid deaths, 1-The summary report of September 30, 1945 put total casualties for the entire period of the war at 305,000 killed and 780,000 wounded. He believes that in addition to the 363,000 confirmed POW dead in the USSR. Every year in the former Stalingrad on average three to four mass graves are found. Figures for missing include POW held by Allies. [94] The Federation of Expellees has represented the interests of Germans from Eastern Europe. Overmans did not include Russian volunteers in the Wehrmacht in his figures. However, in Poland it is viewed by some as an attempt to reopen the wounds of the war and to revert to pre-war borders. He pointed out that the heavy death toll estimated by the Maschke Commission of 80,000 German POW in Yugoslavia was based on documented eyewitness accounts.
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