Tuesday, January 07, 2014

2,600,000-3,100,000 Japanese perished in WW II.

...Housewives and children (click here) were incinerated instantly or paralysed in their daily routines, their internal organs boiled and their bones charred into brittle charcoal....



Little discussed is the large numbers of India military and civilian deaths due to WWII.

1,500,000-2,500,000 India citizens. Why? Because they were a British possession and 2 million soldiers were sent to fight the Nazis.

A bit convoluted are the deaths of the Chinese. 20,000,000 dead with about 4 million were military. China was supported by both the USA and Russia to fight the Japanese as well. China was a natural enemy of the Japanese when Japan had an imperialist leader.

Germany lost 6,600,000-8,800,000 of which 5.5 million were military during WWII.

The Soviet Union lost 24,000,000 of which about 10 million were military.

Indonesia, then known as The Dutch East Indies, lost 3-4,000,000 civilians when the Allied Forces were unsuccessful in defending the islands during the Pacific Campaign against the Japanese.

Yugoslavia lost one million of which half were military.

The USA lost 418,500 citizens of which all but 2000 were military. 

The other nations involved lost less numbers, but, proportionally they died in significant numbers.