![]() The People's Republic of China puts its war dead at 20 million, while the Japanese government puts its casualties due to the war at 3.1 million. The Red Army claimed responsibility for the majority of Wehrmacht casualties during World War II. Historian Rüdiger Overmans of the Military History Research Office (Germany) published a study in 2000 that estimated the German military dead and missing at 5.3 million, including 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders, in Austria, and in east-central Europe. ![]() In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated Poland's dead at between 5.6 and 5.8 million. According to Russian government figures, USSR losses within postwar borders now stand at 26.6 million, including 8 to 9 million due to famine and disease. Research in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused a revision of estimates of Soviet World War II fatalities. Recent historical scholarship has shed new light on the topic of Second World War casualties. Statistics on the number of military wounded are included whenever available. The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses. More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21–25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 50–56 million, with an additional estimated 19–28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 2.3 billion (est.) people on Earth in 1940. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Over 6,000 American and Japanese troops died in the fighting. ![]() The Marines secured the island after 76 hours of intense fighting. Over 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Holocaust. Einsatzgruppen murder Jewish civilians outside Ivanhorod, Ukraine, 1942. Officially, roughly 8.6 million Soviet soldiers died in the course of the war, including millions of POWs. Soviet soldiers killed during the Toropets–Kholm Offensive, January 1942. 2.0L 16-Valve I4 Skyactiv-G Engine 2.0L 16v I4 Supercharged Turbo Drive-E Engine 2.0L 16v I4 Turbo Drive-E Engine 2.0L 4-Cyl Engine 2.4L 4-Cyl Engine 2.4L DOHC 4-Cyl SIDI Spark Ignition DI Engine 2.4L DOHC MPFI 16-Valve i-VTEC I4 Engine 2.4L DOHC VVT-i 16-Valve VVT-i 4-Cyl Engine 2.4L I-4 16-Valve DOHC i-VTEC Engine 2.4L Theta II DOHC 16v I4 Engine 2.5L 4-Cyl Engine 2.5L DOHC 16-Valve I4 Engine 2.5L DOHC SFI 16-Valve I4 Gas/electric Engine 2.5L DOHC SMPI 16-Valve I4 Engine 2.5L Skyactiv-G DOHC 16-Valve 4-Cyl Engine 2.7L V6 Cylinder Engine 3.0L V6 Cylinder Engine 3.2L V6 24v VVT Engine 3.5L DOHC SFI 24-Valve V6 Engine 3.5L Ecoboost V6 Engine 3.5L SOHC MPFI 24-Valve i-VTEC V6 Engine 3.5L V6 Cylinder Engine 3.5L V6 Duratec Engine 3.5L V6 SOHC 24-Valve i-VTEC Engine 3.6L V6 24v VVT Engine 3.6L V6 Cylinder Engine 3.6L V6 SIDI Spark Ignition DI Engine 3.7L DOHC 24-Valve V6 Engine 3.7L V6 Cylinder Engine 4.0L DOHC 24-Valve V6 Engine 5.0L V8 FFV Engine 5.3L Ecotec3 V8 Engine 5.3L V8 Ecotec3 Engine 5.6L DOHC 32-Valve Endurance V8 Engine 5.List of human losses by participating country
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