What country killed the most German soldiers in World War 2?

Russians also point to the fact that Soviet forces killed more German soldiers than their Western counterparts, accounting for 76 percent of Germany's military dead.
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Which country has the most kills in ww2?

The Soviet Union is estimated to have suffered the highest number of WWII casualties.
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Which countries lost the most soldiers in ww2?

In terms of total numbers, the Soviet Union bore an incredible brunt of casualties during WWII. An estimated 16,825,000 people died in the war, over 15% of its population.
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Which two nations were the most powerful after WWII?

Explanation: After the end of WWII and the demise of Nazi Germany, the world was dominated by two major superpowers which were the USA and the Soviet Union also called the USSR.
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How many German soldiers were executed for desertion in ww2?

That rule was taken seriously during the lead up to World War II and the conflict itself. At least 15,000 German soldiers were executed for desertion alone, and up to 50,000 were killed for often minor acts of insubordination.
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Number of deaths in the WW2 per country



How many German soldiers died in Stalingrad?

The Germans lost a total of 500,000 men during the Stalingrad campaign, including 91,000 taken prisoner.
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How big was the German army in ww2?

During World War II, a total of about 13.6 million soldiers served in the German Army.
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How many Brits died in ww2?

In WWII there were 384,000 soldiers killed in combat, but a higher civilian death toll (70,000, as opposed to 2,000 in WWI), largely due to German bombing raids during the Blitz: 40,000 civilians died in the seven-month period between September 1940 and May 1941, almost half of them in London.
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Did China fight in ww2?

The 8 years long war between the Chinese and the Japanese is one of the greatest untold Second World War stories. China was the first of the Allies to fight the Axis power in Asia, but they received less credit for the role they played in the Pacific theater than the other allies who joined the war in 1945.
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How many German soldiers died in ww1?

2,037,000 German soldiers were killed in World War I. These losses were a military and demographic catastrophe which had enormously important political, social, economic, and cultural consequences.
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How many US soldiers died in Vietnam?

The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contains records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War.
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How many Chinese died in ww2?

Chinese suffering during the war is not in dispute. Some 14 million Chinese died and up to 100 million became refugees during the eight years of the conflict with Japan from 1937 to 1945.
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What Germans think of British soldiers?

The Germans think nothing of a slovenly soldier.” The manual instructs soldiers not to feel sorry for Germans, emphasizing that “there will be no brutality about a British occupation, but neither will there be softness or sentimentality.”
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Who had the strongest military in ww2?

Listed below, in order of total number of persons mobilized, are the largest national forces in the war. The largest country on the planet, the Soviet Union also had the largest armed forces ever assembled under one flag. By 1945, there were as many veterans in the Soviet Union as there were people in Mexico.
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How good were German soldiers in ww2?

The firepower of a German infantry division far exceeded that of a French, British, or Polish division; the standard German division included 442 machine guns, 135 mortars, 72 antitank guns, and 24 howitzers. Allied divisions had a firepower only slightly greater than that of World War I.
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How many German soldiers died in Russian POW camps?

According to Soviet records 381,067 German Wehrmacht POWs died in NKVD camps (356,700 German nationals and 24,367 from other nations).
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What is the bloodiest Battle in ww2?

The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest battle to take place during the Second World War and is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an estimated 2 million total casualties.
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Are there any German survivors of Stalingrad?

Only 6,000 German survivors from Stalingrad made it home after the war, many after spending years in Soviet prison camps. Of those, about 1,000 are still alive.
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How much were German soldiers paid ww2?

The German Lansder received 35 Reichmarks (RM) per month as basic pay during the Second World War, with increases for each rank above Private. For the historian, it is difficult to relate the worth of the RM to period and modern equivalents.
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How did German soldiers feel about ww2?

A recent survey conducted by the Forsa Institute, a German polling and market research firm, found that the majority perceived the Allies' victory as a liberation for Germany from the Nazi regime, with only 9 percent of Germans viewing World War II as a defeat — dramatically down from 34% in 2005.
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How many Japanese were executed after World War II?

In addition to the central Tokyo trial, various tribunals sitting outside Japan judged some 5,000 Japanese guilty of war crimes, of whom more than 900 were executed.
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