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Human and Animal Casualties in World War II
there have been myriad holocausts in history....
it is estimated that 61 million people and trillions of animals died in World War II
it is estimated that 61 million people and trillions of animals died in World War II
There have been tens of thousands of holocausts in history.
In World War II, Casualties estimated at 61 million does not include the the blinded, the maimed, the lamed
27 000 000 Russians more than any other country defeated Hitler
as they were frozen to death, starved, and were maimed.
11,000,000 Chinese died as Japanese soldiers machine gunned and raped
their way scross the country.
6,000,000 British and Germans died.
450,000 Japanese civilians died of burns in the fire bombing of Tokyo's rice shacks.
Several hundred thousand Japanese died as Truman dropped atom bombs
on Nagasaki and Hiroshima at Churchill's urging. One gross underestimate says 200,000.
Millions of civilians died in the bombing of London, of Dresden, Cologne,
Hamburg etc.
91,000 German soldiers starving and freezing were taken as POW's by
Stalin. Only 5,000 returned.
16,000 US soldiers died in the Bataan death march.
3 thousand American sailors drowned in the Pearl Harbor black op
which could have been prevented by Franklin Roosevelt who had broken
the Japanese code. Many more died as their ships went down.
(In the following list, which grossly underestimates Japanese casualties and those of some other countries, the first number id military and the second number is civilian http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/casualty.html)
Soviet Union* 8,668,000 16,900,000 25,568,000
China 1,324,000 10,000,000 11,324,000
Germany 3,250,000 3,810,000 7,060,000
Poland 850,000 6,000,000 6,850,000
Japan 1,506,000 300,000 1,806,000
Yugoslavia 300,000 1,400,000 1,700,000
Rumania* 520,000 465,000 985,000
France* 340,000 470,000 810,000
Hungary* 750,000
Austria 380,000 145,000 525,000
Greece* 520,000
Italy 330,000 80,000 410,000
Czechoslovakia 400,000
Great Britain 326,000 62,000 388,000
USA 295,000 295,000
Holland 14,000 236,000 250,000
Belgium 10,000 75,000 85,000
Finland 79,000 79,000
Canada 42,000 42,000
India 36,000 *** 36,000
Australia 39,000 39,000
Spain** 12,000 10,000 22,000
Bulgaria 19,000 2,000 21,000
New Zealand 12,000 12,000
South Africa 9,000 9,000
Norway 5,000 5,000
Denmark 4,000 4,000
Only God knows how many total casualties there were in the war and how many died in concentration camps.
The camps contained Jews, Catholics, Communists, other political opponents of Hitler, gays, gypsies, Slavs of mahy nations.
It is racism and arrogance to assign more value to the suffering of 1 ethnic group
than another.
Countless trillions of animals died in World War II, of atom bomb testing,
of bombing, starvation, abandonment. Animals were bulldozed by tanks, shot
by machine guns.
Family dairy cows were rounded up, butchered, and eaten. Animals
were victims of torture in military labs.
For more information:
http://www.amnesty.org
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§first line should say 'dn not include' rather than 'does not include'
Please excuse the grammatical error in the first line.
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