WWII Losses

Here you will find data on WWII losses of some of the countries that participated in the war. The material losses that are given for some countries were estimated according to the pre-WWII value of the U.S. dollar.

ALLIES


Poland

6 028 000 killed (including 2.9 million Jews and 3.1 million ethnic Poles)

(220 fatalities / 1 000 inhabitants)

Material losses: $ 50 000 000 000


U.S.S.R.

20 300 000 killed (including 1.6 million Jews,
mostly murdered civilians and killed prisoners-of-war)

(124 fatalities / 1 000 inhabitants)

Material losses: $ 128 000 000 000


Yugoslavia

1 706 000 killed (including 67 000 Jews)

(108 fatalities / 1 000 inhabitants)

Material losses: $ 9 145 000 000


Greece

558 000 killed (including 70 000 Jews)

(70 / 1 000)

Material losses: $ 2 545 000 000


Czechoslovakia

360 000 killed (including 217 000 Jews)

(25 / 1 000)

Material losses: $ 4 202 000 000


Albania

28 800 killed (including 200 Jews)

(24 / 1 000)


The Netherlands

212 000 killed (including 106 000 Jews)

(22 / 1 000)

Material losses: $ 4 412 000 000


Luxemburg

5 000 killed (including 700 Jews)

(16 / 1 000)


France

535 000 killed (including 83 000 Jews)

(13 / 1 000)

Material losses: $ 21 143 000 000


Belgium

88 000 killed (including 24 387 Jews)

(10 / 1 000)

Material losses: $ 2 278 000 000


U.K.

375 000 killed (8 / 1 000)


New Zealand

10 033 killed (6 / 1 000)


Canada

37 476 killed (3.4 or 3,4 / 1 000)


Norway

8 600 killed (including 728 Jews)

(3 / 1 000)


U.S.A.

405 399 killed (2.9 or 2,9 / 1 000)

Material losses: $ 1 260 000 000


Australia

23 365 killed (2 / 1 000)


Union of South Africa

6 840 killed (0.6 or 0,6 / 1 000)


Egypt (occupied part)

3 300 (0.2 or 0,2 / 1 000)


axis


Germany

7 300 000 (including 380 000 Jews)

(84 / 1 000)


Austria

377 759 (including 65 000 Jews)

(46 / 1 000)


Hungary

400 000 (including 200 000 Jews)

(43 / 1 000)


Romania

665 000 (including 145 000 Jews)

(33 / 1 000)


Finland

84 000 (including 15 Jews)

(22 / 1 000)


Italy 415 000 (including 8 000 Jews)

(9 / 1 000)


Bulgaria

20 000

(2 / 1 000)


Bibliography

Primary Sources:

Encyklopedia Drugiej Wojny Swiatowej, Wydawnictwo MON, Warszawa, 1975.

Obozy Hitlerowskie na Ziemiach Polskich, 1939-1945; Informator Encyklopedyczny, chief editor: Czeslaw Pilichowski, Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 1979.

Secondary Sources:

Dzieje Polski, edited by Jerzy Topolski, Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 1978.

Martha Byrd Hoyle, A World In Flames; The History of World War II, Atheneum, New York, 1970 (c 1969).

James Stokesbury, A Short History of World War II, William Morrow and Company Inc., New York, 1980.

R.A.C. Parker, Struggle For Survival; The History of the Second World War, Oxford University Press, 1989.

John Keegan, The Second World War, Penguin Books, 1989.

Martin Gilbert, "Final Solution", The Oxford Companion to World War II, Oxford University Press, 1995.


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