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Please note the location of this page on our re-vamped site: http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/fatalities   World War II Fatalities     Country Military Civilian Total   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   Total circa 61 Million   Notes:   1. The above table shows only deaths not wounded.   2. Figures are rounded to nearest 1000   3. The table above has been compiled from three main sources:-  (1). Alan Bullock - Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives pp987   (2). The Times Atlas of the Second World War pp204,205   (3). Richard Overy - Russia's War pp288   The highest estimate for each country was selected during compilation - in the case of ref.3 the figures for military deaths are given as recent official figures and the civilian deaths are those estimated from a 1996 study by B V Sokolov - although the author points out that an accurate figure is difficult to calculate.  Also: for Australia   *The figures for these countries were very different in the three sources  ** The military deaths for Spain, a neutral country during the war, are attributed to volunteers in the Axis (4500) and Allied (7500) armies. According to source 2, above, 10,000 Spaniards died in concentration camps. These figures may be very inaccurate and may be reviewed later.  *** This table does not take into account the 3 million Indians who died due to famine in 1943.