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Posted By: *daylia*
07-Nov-04 - 05:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: How the rest of the world voted
Subject: RE: BS: How the rest of the world voted
Here you go Ebbie - WWII casualties by country, according to Wikipedia.

Allied soldiers killed

Australia: 23,400
Brazil: 493
Canada: 37,500
China: 2,500,000 (CCP and KMT forces)
Czechoslovakia: 46,000
France and Free French Forces: 210,000
Greece: 88,300
India: 36,000
Luxembourg: 4,000
Netherlands: 7,900
New Zealand: 10,000
Norway: 2,000
Poland: 123,000
South Africa: 6,840
Soviet Union: 8,668,000
United Kingdom: 264,000
United States: 292,000
Yugoslavia: 300,000

TOTAL Allied soldiers killed: approximately 12.6 million


German military casualties = 3,500,000 (includes Austrians and Sudeten Germans in German Army as well as other nationalities forced to join the Wehrmacht.
German civilian casualties totalled 2,760,000 (including 200,000-2,000,000 World War II evacuation and expulsion).

So, almost 6 million Germans died for Hitler. I do hope people wise up before that many have to die for Bush and Co's "Project for a New American Century".

One question for someone who knows a little more about Scandinavia than I do ... according to the article, 82,000 Finnish soldiers died when Finland was attacked. Could this be a typo? Finland is so tiny ... how could it have produced so many soldiers???

daylia