Just to put things in a little perspective:

The European Axis powers killed between 5 and 5.7 million Jews in the Second World War. They also killed roughly 7 million Soviet citizens, 8300 British or American POWS, 3.3 million Soviet POWS, roughly half a million Romanis, about 500,000 homosexuals. In the Nanking Massacre alone the Japanese killed 300,000.

The Western Allied forces killed about 300,000 Japanese civilians between the bombing of Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ABout 800,000 German civilians were killed during the war.

The Russian leader Beria signed off on the slaughter of 25,700 Polish captives on a single day.

The United States Merchant Marine lost 250,000 people during the war.

Estimates of the actual fighting men killed on all sides range around 15 million.

In case anyone wonders why tsome of us think war is a really, really stupid idea!


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