Canadian casualties The casualties of the Canadian armed forces are estimated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at 45,383 dead, including 102 dead natives of Newfoundland (21 in the army, 41 in the navy and 40 in the air force), which until 1949 was not formally part of Canada, but was

Losses of Brazil Brazil was the only Latin American country - members of the Anti-Hitler coalition, which sent its ground troops to Europe to participate in the Italian campaign. Brazil declared war on the Axis on August 22, 1942. Brazilian

Losses of Mexico Mexico lost 9 pilots of the squadron, which, together with the Americans, operated in the Asia-Pacific theater of operations against Japan in the Philippines and Taiwan in 1945. 1 pilot killed in action, 3 at sea after they ran out of

The losses of Cuba The losses of Cuba, which was a member of the Anti-Hitler coalition, were reduced to the death of 79 sailors on 5 merchant ships sunk by German submarines

Irish Losses Ireland was the only British dominion to remain neutral during World War II. However, according to the Irish authorities, about 70 thousand citizens of Ireland voluntarily served in the British army. In 1995, the then head of the Irish

Losses of Iran During the occupation of Iran by Soviet and British troops from August 25 to September 17, 1941, undertaken to protect Iranian oil fields from the Axis countries, Iranian troops lost about 200 people dead in clashes with the invaders. 29

Belgian losses The losses of the Belgian army in the fight against the Wehrmacht amounted to 8.8 thousand killed, 500 missing, who should be counted among the dead, 200 subjected to the death penalty, 1.8 thousand died in captivity and 800 died in the resistance movement. In addition, by

Losses of Malta Losses of the civilian population of Malta from German-Italian air raids are estimated at 1.5 thousand people. 14 thousand bombs were dropped on the island, about 30 thousand buildings were destroyed and damaged. The relatively small number of victims is due to the fact that the population

Losses of Bulgaria The losses of the Bulgarian troops during the occupational service in Yugoslavia and Greece in 1941-1944, mainly as a result of clashes with local partisans, amounted to about 3 thousand people. According to Bulgarian communists, more than 15,000

Losses of Norway According to G. Frumkin, the losses of the Norwegian army and navy in the campaign of 1940, as well as during subsequent actions as part of the Anti-Hitler coalition, are estimated at 1.3 thousand people. About 700 more Norwegians died fighting in the SS troops, and 1.5 thousand fighters

Losses in Denmark In Denmark, losses during the German occupation amounted to 39 soldiers of the Danish army (including 13 during the German invasion on April 9, 1940, and 26 during the dissolution of the Danish government on August 29, 1943), 797 executed Resistance fighters and 1281

Losses ... In any feast, to the noise and din of the departed, remember; although they are invisible to us, they see us. (I. G.) ... When I was awarded the highest officer rank, my son Seryozha and my friend and brother of my wife, lieutenant colonel of the medical service Ruzhitsky Zhanlis Fedorovich, were most happy about this.

What were the population losses of the USSR during World War II? Stalin stated that they were equal to 7 million, Khrushchev - 20. However, is there any reason to believe that they were significantly larger?
By the beginning of the war, the population of the USSR was 197,500,000 people. The "natural" population growth from 1941 - 1945 was 13,000,000 people, and the "natural" decline was 15,000,000 people, since the war was going on.
By 1946, the population of the USSR should have been 195,500,000 people. However, at that time it was only 168,500,000 people. Consequently, the loss of population during the war was 27,000,000 people. An interesting fact: the population of the republics and territories annexed in 1939 is 22,000,000 people. However, in 1946 it was 13 million. The fact is that 9 million people emigrated. 2 million Germans (or those who called themselves Germans) moved to Germany, 2 million Poles (or those who knew a few words from the Polish dialect) moved to Poland, 5 million inhabitants of the western regions of the USSR moved to the countries of the West.
So, direct losses from the war: 27 million - 9 million = 18 million people. 8 million people out of 18 million - these are civilians: 1 million Poles who died at the hands of Bandera, 1 million who died during the blockade of Leningrad, 2 million civilians, classified by the Nazis as persons capable of taking up arms (age from 15 to 65 years) and kept in concentration camps along with Soviet prisoners of war, 4 million Soviet citizens, classified by the Nazis as communists, partisans, etc. Every tenth Soviet person died.

Losses of the Red Army - 10 million people.

What were the German population losses during World War II?By the beginning of the war, the population of Germany proper was 74,000,000 people. The population of the Third Reich is 93 million people.By the autumn of 1945, the population of Germany (Vaterland, not the entire Third Reich) was 52,000,000 people. More than 5 million Germans immigrated from the Volksdeutsche to the country. So, the losses of Germany: 74 million - 52 million + 5 million = 27 million people.

Military losses during the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War have been the subject of both disputes and speculation for many years. Moreover, the attitude towards these losses is changing exactly the opposite. So, in the 70s, the propaganda apparatus of the Central Committee of the CPSU for some reason almost proudly broadcast about the heavy human losses of the USSR during the war years. And not so much about the victims of the Nazi genocide, but about the combat losses of the Red Army. With a completely incomprehensible pride, the propaganda "duck" was exaggerated, allegedly about only three percent of the front-line soldiers born in 1923 who survived the war. With rapture they broadcast about entire graduation classes, where all the young men went to the front and not one returned. An almost socialist competition was launched among rural areas, who has more villages, where all the men who went to the front died. Although, according to demographic statistics, on the eve of the Great Patriotic War there were 8.6 million men in 1919-1923. birth, and in 1949, during the All-Union census of the population, there were 5.05 million of them alive, that is, the decline in the male population of 1919-1923. births during this period amounted to 3.55 million people. Thus, if we accept that for each of the ages 1919-1923. Since there is an equal size of the male population, there were 1.72 million men of each year of birth. Then it turns out that 1.67 million people (97%) died of conscripts born in 1923, and conscripts born in 1919-1922. births - 1.88 million people, i.e. about 450 thousand people of those born in each of these four years (about 27% of their total number). And despite the fact that the military personnel of 1919-1922. births made up the regular Red Army, which took the blow of the Wehrmacht in June 1941 and almost completely burned out in the battles of the summer and autumn of that year. This alone easily refutes all the conjectures of the notorious "sixties" about the allegedly three percent of the surviving front-line soldiers born in 1923.

During the "perestroika" and so-called. reforms, the pendulum has swung the other way. Unthinkable figures of 30 and 40 million servicemen who died during the war were enthusiastically cited, the notorious B. Sokolov, a doctor of philology, by the way, and not a mathematician, is especially zealous with the methods of statistics. Absurd ideas were voiced that Germany lost only almost 100 thousand people during the entire war, about a monstrous ratio of 1:14 dead German and Soviet soldiers, etc. Statistical data on the losses of the Soviet Armed Forces, given in the reference book “Secrecy Removed”, published in 1993, and in the fundamental work “Russia and the USSR in the Wars of the 20th Century (Losses of the Armed Forces)”, were categorically declared falsifications. Moreover, according to the principle: since this does not correspond to someone's speculative concept of the losses of the Red Army, it means falsification. At the same time, the losses of the enemy were underestimated in every possible way and are being underestimated. With veal delight, figures are announced that do not climb into any gates. So, for example, the losses of the 4th Panzer Army and the Kempf task force during the German offensive near Kursk in July 1943 were cited in the amount of only 6900 killed soldiers and officers and 12 burnt tanks. At the same time, miserable and ridiculous arguments were invented to explain why the tank army, which had practically retained 100% combat capability, suddenly backed away: from the landing of the allies in Italy, to the lack of fuel and spare parts, or even about the rains that had begun.

Therefore, the question of the human losses of Germany during the Second World War is quite relevant. Moreover, interestingly, in Germany itself there are still no fundamental studies on this issue. Only circumstantial information is available. Most researchers, when analyzing Germany's losses during the Second World War, use the monograph of the German researcher B. Müller-Hillebrandt “The Land Army of Germany. 1933-1945". However, this historian resorted to outright falsification. Thus, indicating the number of those drafted into the Wehrmacht and the SS troops, Müller-Hillebrand gave information only for the period from 06/01/1939 to 04/30/1945, modestly keeping silent about the contingents previously called up for military service. But by June 1, 1939, Germany had already been deploying its armed forces for four years, and by June 1 of that year, there were 3214.0 thousand people in the Wehrmacht! Therefore, the number of men mobilized in the Wehrmacht and the SS in 1935-1945. takes on a different form (see table 1).

Thus, the total number of people mobilized into the Wehrmacht and SS troops is not 17,893.2 thousand people, but about 21,107.2 thousand people, which immediately gives a completely different picture of Germany's losses during the Second World War.

Now let's turn to the actual losses of the Wehrmacht. The Wehrmacht operated three different loss accounting systems:

1) through the channel "IIa" - military service;
2) through the channel of the medical and sanitary service;
3) through the channel of personal accounting of losses in the territorial bodies of the list accounting of German military personnel.

But at the same time, there was an interesting feature - the losses of units and subunits were taken into account not in total, but according to their combat mission. This was done in order for the Reserve Army to have comprehensive information about which contingents of military personnel must be submitted for replenishment in each specific division. A reasonable enough principle, but today this method of accounting for the loss of personnel allows you to manipulate the numbers of German losses.

Firstly, separate records were kept of the losses of personnel of the so-called. "combat strength" - Kampfwstaerke - and support units. So, in the German infantry division of the state in 1944, the "combat strength" was 7160 people, the number of combat support and rear units - 5609 people, and the total number - Tagesstaerke - 12 769 people. In a tank division according to the state of 1944, the “combat strength” was 9307 people, the number of combat support and rear units was 5420 people, and the total number was 14,727 people. The "combat strength" of the active army of the Wehrmacht was approximately 40-45% of the total number of personnel. By the way, this allows you to very famously falsify the course of the war, when the total number of Soviet troops at the front is indicated, and the German ones only combat. Like, signalmen, sappers, repairmen, they don’t go on attacks ...

Secondly, in the "combat strength" itself - Kampfwstaerke - units "directly fighting" - Gefechtstaerke - were separately allocated. Infantry (motorized rifle, tank-grenadier) regiments, tank regiments and battalions and reconnaissance battalions were considered units and subunits "directly engaged in combat" as part of divisions. Artillery regiments and divisions, anti-tank and anti-aircraft divisions belonged to combat support units. In the Air Force - the Luftwaffe - "units directly engaged in combat" were considered flight personnel, in the Naval Forces - the Kriegsmarine - sailors belonged to this category. And accounting for the losses of personnel of the "combat strength" was carried out separately for the personnel "directly fighting" and for the personnel of combat support units.

It is also interesting to note that only those killed directly on the battlefield were taken into account in combat losses, but the military personnel who died from severe wounds during the evacuation stages were already attributed to the losses of the Reserve Army and were excluded from the total number of irretrievable losses of the active army. That is, as soon as the wound was determined to require more than 6 weeks to heal, the Wehrmacht soldier was immediately transferred to the Reserve Army. And even if they did not have time to take him to the rear and he was dying near the front line, anyway, as an irretrievable loss, he was already taken into account in the Reserve Army and this serviceman was excluded from the number of combat irretrievable losses of a specific front (Eastern, African, Western, etc.) . That is why, in accounting for the losses of the Wehrmacht, almost only those killed and missing appear.

There was another specific feature of accounting for losses in the Wehrmacht. Czechs drafted into the Wehrmacht from the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Poles drafted into the Wehrmacht from the Poznan and Pomeranian regions of Poland, as well as Alsatians and Lorraine through the channel of personal loss accounting in the territorial bodies of the German military personnel list were not taken into account, since they did not belong to the so-called . "Imperial Germans". In the same way, ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) drafted into the Wehrmacht from the occupied European countries were not taken into account through the personal accounting channel. In other words, the losses of these categories of servicemen were excluded from the total accounting of irretrievable losses of the Wehrmacht. Although more than 1200 thousand people were called up from these territories to the Wehrmacht and the SS, not counting the ethnic Germans - Volksdoche - the occupied countries of Europe. Only from the ethnic Germans of Croatia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, six SS divisions were formed, not counting the large number of military police units.

The Wehrmacht did not take into account the losses of auxiliary paramilitary formations: the National Socialist Automobile Corps, the Speer Transport Corps, the Imperial Labor Service and the Todt Organization. Although the personnel of these formations took a direct part in supporting the hostilities, and at the final stage of the war, units and units of these auxiliary formations rushed into battle against the Soviet troops on German territory. Often, the personnel of these formations were added as reinforcements to the Wehrmacht formations right at the front, but since this was not a reinforcement sent through the Reserve Army, no centralized accounting of this reinforcement was kept, and the combat loss of this personnel was not taken into account through the service loss accounting channels.

Separately from the Wehrmacht, the losses of the Volkssturm and the Hitler Youth were also recorded, which were widely involved in hostilities in East Prussia, East Pomerania, Silesia, Brandenburg, West Pomerania, Saxony and Berlin. The Volksshurm and the Hitler Youth were under the control of the NSDAP. Often, units of both the Volkssturm and the Hitler Youth were also directly at the front merged into the Wehrmacht units and formations as replenishment, but for the same reason as with other paramilitary formations, personal nominal accounting of this replenishment was not carried out.

Also, the Wehrmacht did not take into account the losses of the SS military and police units (primarily the Feljandarmerie), which fought against the partisan movement, and at the final stage of the war rushed into battle against the Red Army.

In addition, the so-called. "volunteer assistants" - Hilfswillige ("Hiwi", Hiwi), but the losses of this category of personnel in the total combat losses of the Wehrmacht were also not taken into account. Special mention should be made of "voluntary helpers". These "assistants" were recruited in all countries of Europe and the occupied part of the USSR, in total in 1939-1945. up to 2 million people joined the Wehrmacht and the SS as "voluntary assistants" (including about 500 thousand people from the occupied territories of the USSR). And although most of the Hiwi were service personnel of the rear structures and commandant's offices of the Wehrmacht in the occupied territories, a significant part of them were directly part of the combat units and formations.

Thus, unscrupulous researchers from the total number of irretrievable losses of Germany excluded a large number of lost personnel who directly participated in the hostilities, but were not formally related to the Wehrmacht. Although the auxiliary paramilitary formations, and the Volkssturm, and "voluntary assistants" suffered losses during the battles, these losses can rightly be attributed to the combat losses of Germany.

Table 2, presented here, attempts to bring together the strength of both the Wehrmacht and the German paramilitaries, and roughly calculate the loss of personnel of the armed forces of Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

The number of German soldiers captured by the Allies and capitulating to them may be surprising, despite the fact that 2/3 of the Wehrmacht troops operated on the Eastern Front. The bottom line is that in the captivity of the Allies in a common boiler, both the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS (the designation of the SS field troops operating on the fronts of the Second World War) and the personnel of various paramilitary formations, Volkssturm, NSDAP functionaries, employees territorial divisions of the RSHA and police territorial formations, up to firefighters. As a result, the Allies counted as prisoners up to 4032.3 thousand people, although the actual number of prisoners of war from the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS was significantly lower than the Allies indicated in their documents - about 3000.0 thousand people, however, in our calculations will use official data. In addition, in April-May 1945, German troops, fearing retribution for the atrocities committed on the territory of the USSR, rapidly rolled back to the west, trying to surrender to the Anglo-American troops. Also in late April - early May 1945, the Wehrmacht Reserve Army and all kinds of paramilitary formations, as well as police units, surrendered en masse to the Anglo-American troops.

Thus, the table clearly shows that the total losses of the Third Reich on the Eastern Front in killed and died from wounds, missing, dead in captivity reach 6071 thousand people.

However, as you know, not only German troops, foreign volunteers and paramilitary formations of Germany, but also the troops of their satellites fought against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. It is also necessary to take into account the losses and "voluntary assistants -" Hiwi ". Therefore, taking into account the losses of these categories of personnel, the overall picture of the losses of Germany and its satellites on the Eastern Front takes the picture shown in Table 3.

Thus, the total irretrievable losses of Nazi Germany and its satellites on the Eastern Front in 1941-1945. reach 7 million 625 thousand people. If we take losses only on the battlefield, excluding those who died in captivity and the losses of "voluntary assistants", then the losses are: for Germany - about 5620.4 thousand people and for satellite countries - 959 thousand people, in total - about 6579.4 thousands of people. Soviet losses on the battlefield amounted to 6885.1 thousand people. Thus, the losses of Germany and its satellites on the battlefield, taking into account all factors, are only slightly less than the combat losses of the Soviet Armed Forces on the battlefield (about 5%), and there is no ratio of 1:8 or 1:14 combat losses of Germany and its satellites the losses of the USSR are out of the question.

The figures given in the tables above, of course, are very indicative and have serious errors, but they give, in a certain approximation, the order of losses of Nazi Germany and its satellites on the Eastern Front and during the war as a whole. At the same time, of course, if it were not for the inhuman treatment of Soviet prisoners of war by the Nazis, the total number of losses of Soviet military personnel would have been much lower. With an appropriate attitude towards Soviet prisoners of war, at least one and a half to two million people from among those who died in German captivity could have survived.

Nevertheless, a detailed and detailed study of the real human losses in Germany during the Second World War does not exist to date, because. there is no political order, and many data relating to the losses of Germany are still classified under the pretext that they can inflict “moral injuries” on the current German society (let it be better to remain in happy ignorance of how many Germans perished during the Second World War). Contrary to the popular print of the domestic media in Germany, actively falsifying history. The main goal of these actions is to introduce into public opinion the idea that in the war with the USSR, Nazi Germany was the defending side, and the Wehrmacht was the "vanguard of European civilization" in the fight against "Bolshevik barbarism." And there they actively praise the “brilliant” German generals, who for four years held back the “Asian hordes of Bolsheviks”, with minimal losses of German troops, and only the “twenty-fold numerical superiority of the Bolsheviks”, who filled the Wehrmacht with corpses, broke the resistance of the “valiant” soldiers of the Wehrmacht. And the thesis is constantly being exaggerated that more “civilian” German population died than soldiers at the front, and most of the dead civilian population supposedly falls on the eastern part of Germany, where the Soviet troops allegedly committed atrocities.

In the light of the problems discussed above, it is necessary to touch on the clichés stubbornly imposed by pseudo-historians that the USSR won by “filling up the German with the corpses of its soldiers.” The USSR simply did not have such an amount of human resources. On June 22, 1941, the population of the USSR was about 190-194 million people. Including the male population was about 48-49% - approximately 91-93 million people, of which men 1891-1927. births were about 51-53 million people. We exclude approximately 10% of men unfit for military service even in wartime - this is about 5 million people. We exclude 18-20% of the "booked" - highly qualified specialists who are not subject to conscription - this is about 10 million more people. Thus, the draft resource of the USSR was about 36-38 million people. What the USSR actually demonstrated by conscripting 34,476.7 thousand people into the Armed Forces. In addition, it must be taken into account that a significant part of the draft contingent remained in the occupied territories. And many of these people were either deported to Germany, or died, or embarked on the path of collaborationism, and after the Soviet troops liberated from the occupied territories, much fewer people were drafted into the army (by 40-45%) than could be called up before the occupation. In addition, the economy of the USSR simply could not stand it if almost all men capable of carrying weapons - 48-49 million people - were drafted into the army. Then there would be no one to melt steel, to produce T-34 and Il-2, to grow bread.

In order to have in May 1945 the Armed Forces numbering 11,390.6 thousand people, to have 1046 thousand people to be treated in hospitals, to demobilize 3798.2 thousand people for injuries and illnesses, to lose 4600 thousand people. prisoners and lose 26,400 thousand people killed, just 48,632.3 thousand people should have been mobilized into the Armed Forces. That is, with the exception of cripples completely unfit for military service, not a single man of 1891-1927. birth in the rear should not have remained! Moreover, given that some of the men of military age ended up in the occupied territories, and some worked at industrial enterprises, older and younger ages would inevitably fall under the mobilization. However, the mobilization of men older than 1891 was not carried out, as well as the mobilization of conscripts younger than 1927. In general, the doctor of philology B. Sokolov would have been engaged in the analysis of poetry or prose, perhaps he would not have become a laughing stock.

Returning to the losses of the Wehrmacht and the Third Reich as a whole, it should be noted that the issue of accounting for losses there is quite interesting and specific. Thus, the data on the losses of armored vehicles, cited by B. Müller-Gillebrandt, are very interesting and noteworthy. For example, in April-June 1943, when there was a lull on the Eastern Front, and fighting was going on only in North Africa, 1019 tanks and assault guns were taken into account as irretrievable losses. Moreover, by the end of March, the "Africa" ​​army had barely 200 tanks and assault guns, and in April and May, 100 armored vehicles were delivered to Tunisia at most. Those. in North Africa in April and May the Wehrmacht could lose at most 300 tanks and assault guns. Where did another 700-750 lost armored vehicles come from? Were there secret tank battles on the Eastern Front? Or did the Wehrmacht tank army find its end in Yugoslavia these days?

Similarly, the loss of armored vehicles in December 1942, when there were fierce tank battles on the Don, or the losses in January 1943, when the German troops rolled back from the Caucasus, abandoning their equipment, Müller-Hillebrand leads in the amount of only 184 and 446 tanks and assault guns. But in February-March 1943, when the Wehrmacht launched a counteroffensive in the Donbass, the losses of the German BTT suddenly reached 2069 units in February and 759 units in March. It must be borne in mind that the Wehrmacht was advancing, the battlefield remained with the German troops, and all armored vehicles damaged in battles were delivered to the tank repair units of the Wehrmacht. In Africa, the Wehrmacht could not suffer such losses; by the beginning of February, the Africa army had no more than 350-400 tanks and assault guns, and in February-March received only about 200 armored vehicles for replenishment. Those. even with the destruction of all German tanks in Africa, the losses of the Afrika army in February-March could not exceed 600 units, the remaining 2228 tanks and assault guns were lost on the Eastern Front. How could this happen? Why did the Germans lose five times more tanks in the offensive than in the retreat, although the experience of the war shows that the opposite is always the case?

The answer is simple: in February 1943, the 6th German Army of Field Marshal Paulus capitulated in Stalingrad. And the Wehrmacht had to transfer to the list of irretrievable losses all armored vehicles, which they had long lost in the Don steppes, but continued to be modestly listed in the medium and long-term repairs in the 6th Army.

It is impossible to explain why, while gnawing through the defenses of the Soviet troops near Kursk in depth, saturated with anti-tank artillery and tanks in July 1943, the German troops lost fewer tanks than in February 1943, when they delivered counterattacks against the troops of the South-Western and Voronezh fronts. Even if we assume that in February 1943 the German troops lost 50% of their tanks in Africa, it is difficult to assume that in February 1943 in the Donbass, small Soviet troops were able to knock out more than 1000 tanks, and in July near Belgorod and Orel - only 925.

It is no coincidence that for a long time, when the documents of the German “panzer divisions” were captured in the “cauldrons”, serious questions arose about where the German equipment had gone if no one had broken out of the encirclement, and the amount of abandoned and broken equipment did not correspond to what was written in the documents. Each time, the Germans had significantly fewer tanks and assault guns than were listed according to the documents. And only by the middle of 1944 did they realize that the real composition of German tank divisions must be determined according to the “combat-ready” column. Often there were situations when in the German tank and tank-grenadier divisions there were more "dead tank souls" than actually available combat-ready tanks and assault guns. And burnt out, with turrets rolled to the side, with gaping gaps in the armor, the tanks stood in the yards of tank repair enterprises, on paper moving from vehicles of one repair category to another, waiting either to be sent for remelting, or they were captured by Soviet troops. On the other hand, German industrial corporations at that time were quietly “sawing” the finances allocated for allegedly long-term repairs or repairs “with shipment to Germany”. In addition, if the Soviet documents immediately and clearly indicated that the irretrievably lost tank burned down or was broken so that it could not be restored, then the German documents indicated only the disabled unit or unit (engine, transmission, chassis), or it was indicated location of combat damage (hull, turret, bottom, etc.). At the same time, even a tank completely burned out from a shell hit in the engine compartment was listed as having engine damage.

If we analyze the same B. Muller-Gillebrandt's data on the losses of the "Royal Tigers", then an even more striking picture emerges. At the beginning of February 1945, the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS had 219 Pz. Kpfw. VI Ausf. B "Tiger II" ("Royal Tiger"). By this time, 417 tanks of this type had been produced. And lost, according to Muller-Gillebrandt, - 57. In total, the difference between produced and lost tanks is 350 units. In stock - 219. Where did 131 cars go? And that is not all. According to the same retired general in August 1944, there were no lost King Tigers at all. And many other researchers of the history of the Panzerwaffe also find themselves in an awkward position, when almost everyone points out that the German troops recognized the loss of only 6 (six) Pz. near Sandomierz. Kpfw. VI Ausf. B "Tiger II". But what about the situation when, near the town of Szydlów and the village of Oglendow near Sandomierz, Soviet trophy groups and special groups from the armored department of the 1st Ukrainian Front were studied in detail and described with serial numbers of 10 wrecked and burnt and 3 fully serviceable "Royal Tigers" ? It remains only to assume that, standing within the line of sight of the German troops, the wrecked and burnt "Royal Tigers", were listed by the Wehrmacht in their long-term repair under the pretext that theoretically these tanks could be beaten off during a counterattack and then returned to service. Original logic, but nothing else comes to mind.

According to B. Müller-Gillebrandt, by February 1, 1945, 5840 heavy tanks Pz. Kpfw. V "Panther" ("Panther"), lost - 3059 units, 1964 units were available. If we take the difference between the produced "Panthers" and their losses, then the remainder is 2781 units. There was, as already mentioned, 1964 units. At the same time, Panther tanks were not transferred to German satellites. Where did 817 units go?

With tanks Pz. Kpfw. IV is exactly the same picture. Produced by February 1, 1945 of these machines, according to Muller-Gillebrandt, 8428 units, lost - 6151, the difference is 2277 units, there were 1517 units on February 1, 1945. No more than 300 machines of this type were transferred to the allies. Thus, up to 460 cars are unaccounted for, having disappeared to who knows where.

Tanks Pz. Kpfw. III. Produced - 5681 units, lost by February 1, 1945 - 4808 units, the difference - 873 units, there were 534 tanks on the same date. No more than 100 units were transferred to the satellites, so it is not known where about 250 tanks evaporated from the account.

In total, more than 1,700 tanks "Royal Tiger", "Panther", Pz. Kpfw. IV and Pz. Kpfw. III.

Paradoxically, to date, none of the attempts to deal with the irretrievable losses of the Wehrmacht in technology has not been successful. No one was able to decompose in detail by months and years what real irretrievable losses the Panzerwaffe suffered. And all because of the peculiar methodology of "accounting" for the loss of military equipment in the German Wehrmacht.

In the same way, in the Luftwaffe, the existing methodology for accounting for losses made it possible for a long time to list in the “repair” column downed, but fallen on their territory, aircraft. Sometimes even a shattered plane that crashed at the location of German troops was not immediately included in the lists of irretrievable losses, but was considered damaged. All this led to the fact that in the squadrons of the Luftwaffe up to 30-40%, and even more, the equipment was constantly listed as not combat-ready, smoothly moving from the category of damaged to the category to be written off.

One example: when in July 1943, on the southern face of the Kursk Bulge, pilot A. Gorovets shot down 9 Ju-87 dive bombers in one battle, the Soviet infantry examined the Junkers crash sites and reported detailed data on the downed aircraft: tactical and factory numbers, data on dead crew members, etc. However, the Luftwaffe acknowledged the loss of only two dive bombers that day. How could this happen? The answer is simple: by the evening of the day of the air battle, the territory where the Luftwaffe bombers had fallen was occupied by German troops. And the downed planes were in the territory controlled by the Germans. And of the nine bombers, only two scattered in the air, the rest fell, but retained relative integrity, although they were mangled. And the Luftwaffe with a calm soul attributed the downed aircraft to the number of only received combat damage. Surprisingly, this is a real fact.

And in general, considering the issue of losses of Wehrmacht equipment, it must be borne in mind that a lot of money was made on the repair of equipment. And when it came to the financial interests of the financial and industrial oligarchy, the entire repressive apparatus of the Third Reich stood at attention before it. The interests of industrial corporations and banks were guarded sacredly. Moreover, most of the Nazi bosses had their own selfish interests in this.

It is necessary to note one more specific point. Contrary to popular belief about the pedantry, accuracy and scrupulousness of the Germans, the Nazi elite was well aware that a complete and accurate accounting of losses could become a weapon against them. After all, there is always a possibility that information about the true extent of the losses will fall into the hands of the enemy and be used in a propaganda war against the Reich. Therefore, in Nazi Germany they turned a blind eye to the confusion in accounting for losses. At first there was a calculation that the winners were not judged, then it became a deliberate policy in order not to give the winners, in the event of the complete defeat of the Third Reich, arguments for exposing the scale of the disaster to the German people. In addition, it cannot be ruled out that at the final stage of the war, a special erasure of archives was carried out in order not to give the winners additional arguments in accusing the leaders of the Nazi regime of crimes not only against other peoples, but also against their own, German. After all, the death of several million young men in a senseless massacre for the sake of implementing crazy ideas about world domination is a very strong argument for the prosecution.

Therefore, the true scale of Germany's human losses during the Second World War is still waiting for its scrupulous researchers, and then very curious facts may be revealed to them. But on the condition that these will be conscientious historians, and not all kinds of corned beef, milk, Svanidze, Afanasyev, Gavriilpopov and Sokolov. Paradoxically, the commission to counter the falsification of history will have more work to do inside Russia than outside it.

In 1945, the most "bloody" war of the 20th century ended, causing terrible destruction and claiming millions of lives. From our article you can find out what losses the countries participating in the Second World War suffered.

Total losses

62 countries were involved in the most global military conflict of the 20th century, 40 of which were directly involved in hostilities. Their losses in World War II are primarily calculated among the military and civilian population, which amounted to about 70 million people.

Financial losses (the price of lost property) of all parties to the conflict were significant: about $2,600 billion. The countries spent 60% of their income on providing the army and conducting military operations. The total spending reached $4 trillion.

World War II led to huge destruction (about 10 thousand large cities and towns). In the USSR alone, more than 1,700 cities, 70,000 villages, and 32,000 enterprises suffered from bombing. The opponents destroyed about 96,000 Soviet tanks and self-propelled artillery mounts, 37,000 armored vehicles.

Historical facts show that it was the USSR that of all the participants in the anti-Hitler coalition suffered the most serious losses. Special measures were taken to clarify the death toll. In 1959 a population census was carried out (the first since the war). Then the figure of 20 million victims sounded. To date, other specified data (26.6 million) are known, announced by the state commission in 2011. They coincided with the figures announced in 1990. Most of the dead were civilians.

Rice. 1. The ruined city of the Second World War.

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Unfortunately, the exact number of victims is still unknown. Objective reasons (lack of official documentation) complicate the count, so many continue to be listed as missing.

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Before talking about the dead, let's indicate the number of people called up for service by states whose participation in the war was key, and who suffered during the hostilities:

• Germany : 17,893,200 soldiers, of which: 5,435,000 wounded, 4,100,000 were captured;
• Japan : 9 058 811: 3 600 000: 1 644 614;
• Italy : 3,100,000: 350 thousand: 620 thousand;
• the USSR : 34,476,700: 15,685,593: about 5 million;
• United Kingdom : 5,896,000: 280 thousand: 192 thousand;
• USA : 16 112 566: 671 846: 130 201;
• China : 17,250,521: 7 million: 750 thousand;
• France : 6 million: 280 thousand: 2,673,000

Rice. 2. Wounded soldiers from World War II.

For convenience, here is a table of countries' losses in World War II. The number of deaths in it is indicated, taking into account all causes of death, approximately (average figures between the minimum and maximum):

World War II was the most destructive war in the history of mankind. Its consequences are still debated to this day. 80% of the world's population took part in it.

Many questions arise about how many people died in World War II, as different sources of information give different figures for the loss of life between 1939 and 1945. The differences are due to where the original information was obtained, as well as to which method of calculation was used.

Total death toll

It is worth noting that many historians and professors have been studying this issue. The number of deaths from the Soviet Union was calculated by the staff of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. According to new archival data, the information of which is given for 2001, the Great Patriotic War claimed the lives of 27 million people in total. Of these, more than seven million people are military personnel who were killed or died from their injuries.

Talk about how many people died from 1939 to 1945. as a result of hostilities, continue to this day, since it is almost impossible to calculate the losses. Various researchers and historians give their data: from 40 to 60 million people. After the war, the real data was hidden. During the reign of Stalin, it was said that the losses of the USSR amounted to 8 million people. During the Brezhnev era, this figure increased to 20 million, and during the period of perestroika - up to 36 million.

The free encyclopedia Wikipedia provides the following data: more than 25.5 million military personnel and about 47 million civilians (including all participating countries), i.e. in total, the number of losses exceeds 70 million people.

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