How many people were mobilized during the Second World War

During the Second World War, about 130 million people were mobilized (4% of them were women) out of 2.2 billion people who lived on Earth in 1939. Representatives of 30 nations were mobilized. Approximately 70% were mobilized by the Allies, the rest by the Axis countries. In absolute numbers , the largest The contingents were fielded by the USSR, the USA, China and Germany.

[@vanlande5772]

Holy smoke, those 35-42% mobilization rates. Germany, Italy, Finland and Soviet Union weren't playing games.

[@michaelmapes4119]

Probably that's where most of the fighting took place.

[@piersp38]

Say It to the idiots Who says " Italy swtiched side " , like It was a party , without knowing a fuxxx what Italy lived in 3 continents and moreover as civil war , which Is surely a percentage not included here . Difficult to believe both partizans or Social Republic Army were counted here , than They should be added.

[@Dan0sk]

And where Czechoslovakia ?

[@LordDavid04]

@@Dan0sk They were ceded to Nazi Germany prior to the war? Although, this is somewhat inaccurate anyways as it probably takes into account resistance numbers or those from those nations who joined/mobilized after their respective nations fell.

[@DonMrLenny]

Germany after the war for many years had one of the worst male to female ratios in the world that for every 100 women they had only 85 men

[@melorange1678]

Very disappointing that New Zealand was left out. Apart from serving with the NZ forces, many served with the British, especially the RAF. A small population that contributed way beyond in both world wars. Given that it was 67% of men aged 18 to 65 , it was a serious omission.

[@australianmade2659]

Probably better to just say ANZAC

[@maxdavis7722]

67% blows anything else out of the video, where did you get that stat?

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

I thought it was 0.76 of your entire population was killed ?

[@nurzhan888]

3:40 Италия 9000000=40% Китай 14000000=5%

[@kiwichris2971]

NZ was a small country of only 2.5 million back then and just didn't have the raw numbers to be on the top of this list. But in terms of the % of population (per capita) that served then we would be in the top 5 for sure. With a lot serving in other Commonwealth armed forces. I enjoyed this clip and there's nothing wrong with reasonable and respectful debate such as I've seen

[@BlauerBooo]

Take in mind: the mobilization rate and numbers are throughout the war. This means: over the time of 6 years max. - not at one moment. AND this also means: for some official standing armies the war was shorter than for orthers, so this puts into context their numbers as well - like for France, Belgium, Norway, Netherlands, Poland and such, that were involved in fighting of their regular armed forces only for a shorter period of weeks or months compared to Germany or the Soviet Union for all the years.

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

The country that spent the longest period fighting was the UK. It entered the war on 3 September 1939 and its armed forces were still fighting when Japan surrendered on 2 September 1945. Also I wondered if the figures include the volunteers from occupied nations that fought for the axis ?

[@xajmaq]

Poland don't signed peace treaty with nazi Germany... So technically we are still at war :p

[@thomast8539]

@@lightfootpathfinder8218 Not so fast. The Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931 which led to full scale war with China beginning in 1937. WW2 in Europe may have begun in September of 1939, but the Asian portion of the conflict started much earlier.

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

@@thomast8539 that was a war between Japan and China confined to Asia. Once Germany invaded Poland and the UK and France declared war it involved all of there colonies across the globe hence it was the start of the world war

[@Fox13440]

Even like that France never had 50millions man available (5millions is 5% so 100%=50)

[@stefanavic6630]

Australia 1 million? I wish Hearts of Iron 4 would give Australia that man power.

[@The_fog_general]

I couldn’t say it better

[@razorburn645]

No kidding I wish 1.1 million to work with in Canada.

[@stefanavic6630]

@@razorburn645 Same here - I actually like playing the second tier powers and was really surprised about Canada's man power. They landed troops on D-Day for goodness sake.

[@noldo3837]

Well, HoI IV programmers and testers only care about how to make Nazi countries strong, Allies weak, and Commies absurd.

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

go for scrape the barrel

[@lewycraft]

A bit of a correction. While yes, overall, oficiall military numbers, that Poland managed to mobilise, was only 2mln, overall, more than double of that, was fighting after the fall of poland in the resistance, as well, as forcfully drafted into Wehrmacht.

[@thenewme_Pal]

Yeaaaa I was thinking that might be the case when I saw Greece's mobilization rate

[@ltnnakkmendoza]

It talks about mobilisation. Some countries had fighters in each side.

[@albertofernandez2490]

4 mln? Poland mobilised 1 mln in september 1939. Drafted into Wehrmacht maybe 400k. Do you think 2,5 mln served in the resistance?

[@lewycraft]

@@albertofernandez2490 some 500k fought in the West and East, some 400k fought in different resistance groups.

[@midnike8783]

@@albertofernandez2490 Add to this the 440K in Ludowe Wojsko Polskie, which fought against the Nazis on the side of the Red Army.

[@RouGeZH]

The % of the male french population is wrong. 5 million is 25% of the male pop not 12.5%. Population of France was about 40 million in 1940.

[@mekenyk1028]

I thought so too when i saw Poland and than it hit me they are counting men "fit for service" then and now it was over 15 milion so they are not counting all people in the country only those who can fight

[@MultiKaramon]

I think it meant France with its colonies

[@silverpleb2128]

Colonies. Also including the french departements of north africa which were fully integrated in France.

[@RouGeZH]

@SilverPleb it's wrong too, male population of the French empire in 1939 was around 55 millions, and 5 isn't 12.5% of 55 but 9.1%.

[@silverpleb2128]

@@RouGeZH The guy made a mistake by not showing the colonies and the population of the DOM TOM and north african departements and the population of the colonies. But also, he made a mistake by talking about % of male population while showing the % of the whole METROPOLITAN population of france. And yet, 12.5 % is a correct number. 5 millions out of 40 millions is 12.5 %.

[@user-tq9ls5qq6g]

You miss the *Czechoslovak mobilization which numbered 1,250,000 men.* I don't know what percentage it is from the total available manpower, but at that time Czechoslovakia had more than 13,600,000 inhabitants, so I would say around 25-20%

[@nuradinsadigi9148]

with only one soldier to shoot at Germans?

[@kromek_jga]

@@nuradinsadigi9148 Czechoslovak troops fought on the Western Front (as part of the British Army) and the Eastern Front (alongside the Red Army).

[@nuradinsadigi9148]

@@kromek_jga however you can neither refer to those units as "Czechoslovak mobilized" nor claim the stated number. Plus weren't there some axis slovak troops as well as Czech pro-German police troops ?

[@davidrajtr8332]

Yes Czechoslovakia had 14 800 000 people in 1938. But around 3 000 000 was Germans and another around 700 000 were Hungarians. So generaly the most of the soliders was slavic, Czechs, Slovaks and Rusyns. Anyway there was still around 100 000 Germans and 60 000 Hungarians who entered to CzSA. So yes generaly we can say it was 20% of male population mainly when count slavic parts, in german it was around 5-6% of male population, and hungarians similar to 20%.

[@user-tq9ls5qq6g]

@@nuradinsadigi9148 The title of the video is "how many people were mobilized during the Second World War", in 1938 there was a general mobilization of the Czechoslovak population, with uniforms, weapons and equipment, just everything. The fact that they surrendered without a fight is another matter.

[@MeMe-ph1wd]

Hello from Finland. Numbers matters, but % was more interesting. Father's father was shot to shoulder near Rukajärvi in Russia. He got 1 son, my father 1941. Mother's father was in supply troops, (maybe like this) the nerves could not stand to drive food to the front line with horse, were sent home. He got 6 children 1930-1945, my mother 1943.

[@lylewhitfield3210]

Minor note but the Canadian flag show in this video was not adopted until 1965. Prior to this flag, Canada used the Canadian Red Ensign which was a red flag with the union jack in the corner.

[@pbcoop62]

I noticed that too. The creator did a good job with the flag research, but I saw modern flags for Canada, Australia, and the United States, and the Communist era flag for Yugoslavia (although that might represent Tito's partisans).

[@kugellehr]

Also, some 40,000 dutch served in the Wehrmacht or Waffen SS as mostly volunteers. Thousands of Frenchmen and Spaniards also fought in the wehrmacht.

[@Occitan-Descoteaux]

Yep, there was also a ss division completely French the Charlemagne division. And fun fact : this division was the last one to defend hitlers bunker

[@Manu10900]

@@Occitan-Descoteaux Also the Spanish Blau division, made from veterans of the Spanish civil war. Was one of the most brave in the Eastern Front, expecially at Krasny Bor near Leningrad

[@lucatricky1457]

​@@Occitan-Descoteaux Vallons and Flemisch as well as Danish, Swedish, Russians, Hindus

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

There was even a tiny British free corps in the waffen ss

[@leneanderthalien]

the most from the french who fought in the wehrmacht was not volunteers but enlisted by force, from the regions annexed in 1940 (Alsace and Moselle), the most was send to eastern front and many of them die in combat against soviets or during soviet detention in Tambov...the last french prisonner was liberated from soviet union only in 1955!!! 40 000 french enlisted by force did die in soviet union, 6000 of them as prisonners in Tambov...

[@Protey10]

It is worth considering that some of the listed Axis countries later went over to the side of the Allies. The same Finland, during the "Lapland War" of 1944/45, was at war with Germany.

[@kgb4973]

Everyone went against Germany when it started losing lol

[@rollerhockeynovorossiysk656]

We will see same picture nowdays. As soon as Russin become stornge and stronger, some EU countries will join to RUS-China alliance.

[@abaddonthearmless319]

@@rollerhockeynovorossiysk656 no, because china and russia arent allies and russia is weaker everyday, while the EU is rearming

[@lottalarsson4121]

Finlan was not axis

[@user-cr5tr8zt8e]

@@lottalarsson4121 Финляндия была союзником германии финляндия была палачом Ленинграда. Финляндия совершала зверства в концлагерях в рккупированной Карелии. Если интересно - могу привести факты и доказательства, что финлянлия участвовала в геноциде русских во Второй Мировой Войне.

[@rafetizer]

Gorgeous artwork

[@HistoryBattle]

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[@tojamatokanava7778]

History Battle terrorist guerrillas did not fight against Deutsche!?!

[@_Uzumaki_]

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[@Arizonakiller]

Kinda bad video. Dident include all countries like manchukou,mengdukou which were japanese puppets, and some countries like netherlands, belgium, denmark, norway, estonia also controbuted to axis cause.

[@maikelbraon961]

Nice video, also what is the song name in the background?

[@jorgeleandro4099]

Quando que terá mais vídeos desse tipo?

[@TheSten32]

Very good video

[@LangLebeDasKaisertumOestereich]

Can you do if with every country that fought in ww2

[@CT-1311]

At 1944 the Royal Hungarian had 1.000000 men in service in the army 600.000 was at mid 30’s to the early 40’s but still great video

[@clidenorjr7928]

You’ve forgotten Brazil. We actually send FEB - Força Expedicionária Brasileira to fight in Italy, a division integrating the American fifth army. Brazil also fought in the South Atlantic against U-boats with a record to show. Thus, Primeiro Grupo de Caça - Senta a Púa, with its P-47s made history as a dive bomber unit.

[@madureirajustiniano7766]

Boa! Brasil 🇧🇷

[@user-sp4ck5lz6g]

I'm not sure they were mobilized. Rather being volunteers and active military even before WW2. But maybe I don't understand what they mean by "mobilized" in video

[@gustavosinclair7185]

@@user-sp4ck5lz6g mobilzed is just men taken into military, be it concripted or volunteer

[@grantbuchanan7295]

They've forgotten a lot of countries. Fairly poor effort.

[@user-cr5tr8zt8e]

Перу тоже воевала с Гитлером. 😃

[@jankutac9753]

I hate to break it to you, but h stands for hours. Where are those nice pictures from by the way?

[@TheAnon03]

I really feel like Finland should be "it's complicated" rather than "Axis Powers"

[@user-sp4ck5lz6g]

Why? Being an ally of Nazi Germany is same as being part of Axis Powers

[@angusrogers9366]

could say that for a lot of the axis since Italy, Romania and Bulgaria switched sides too when things were getting bad.

[@mv_5878]

​​@@user-sp4ck5lz6g Then also USSR should be included, as Hitler and Stalin were allies until 1941.

[@user-sp4ck5lz6g]

@@mv_5878 Except they were not. Neither of them were allied to each other in the span of war 1939-1945. Dividing Poland and Eastern Europe in spheres is not same as being allied. Otherwise, we should mark France and Britain as same, they allowed Czechoslovakian partition to happen, after all

[@mv_5878]

@@user-sp4ck5lz6g Sure USSR and Germany were allies, big time. It's a very Russian way of thinking that Soviets could freely ally with Nazis, but when other countries do that, it's somehow wrong. As if joint invasion of Poland were fundamentally different from a joint invasion of Russia ))))

[@edcoates2456]

Where the hell is New Zealand in this? Good video either way though- Cheers!

[@KarlPHorse]

They didn't need to mobilize anyone. The Bob Semple tank was so powerful that it single handedly ended ended the war.

[@jankutac9753]

Damn they were drunk and late as always

[@melorange1678]

@@jankutac9753 Odd you say that. New Zealand immediately declared war and joined Britain within hours. You clearly have no knowledge of New Zealand's forces record in not just WW2. Don't know what country you are from , perhaps we can compare ?

[@jankutac9753]

@@melorange1678 haha you got me. I'm from Czechia. Ok ok I know, in WW2 we don't have much to compare . But we can beat you any time in football, hockey or beer consumption. But did NZ, CAN, AUS, SA even have the choice not to join Britain? I mean, as colonies?

[@ggarlick46]

@@jankutac9753 It was the Commonwealth and the ones you mentioned were independent countries even then. That was part of the Commonwealth pact to ally if any Country was attacked.

[@VonMaisten]

The video is good but I would like to ask what sites you have consulted to make the video.

[@HistoryBattle]

do you mean the source?

[@VonMaisten]

@@HistoryBattle Yes

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Make a vídeo about Raf squadrons 🇬🇧🛩️

[@-davorite-]

No matter which nation, if the uniform includes a Stahlhelm it looks automatically cool

[@soaresbaiano]

Brazil was missing from that list. 25,000 soldiers were sent to battle in Italy. There was also confrontation in the South Atlantic. FAB vs the U-Boots.

[@LoLMasterManiac]

🥱 nobody cares about 🇧🇷

[@lucasdamotta2931]

Brazil didn’t mobilized more than 1% of our male population.

[@da10cent41]

Where did you get these numbers from? HOI4?

[@SergeyIvanov12345]

exactly

[@glen1555]

Did the Poland number include those who fought for Great Britain? Came across a cemetery in Hunstanton, Norfolk last Thursday, and there were about 20 war graves, including 6, which were inscribed "Polish Forces".

[@adione6269]

I think those numbers would be irrelevant

[@Agnemons]

@@adione6269 The number of Poles that fought for GB is not, was not and never will be irelevant

[@marcintrzepla8743]

u count with or without netherlands,belgium and norway ss divisions?

[@AboHazem2]

How do you design these clips I mean what program do you use to design a clip like this

[@soundsidecolour]

Many ways to achieve this. One way is creating one very long image, and have it move across the screen over time in a software like After Effects.

[@AboHazem2]

@@soundsidecolour Good But I did not find a clip that explains to me how to work. Can you point me to a clip that explains to me how to do that?

[@soundsidecolour]

@@AboHazem2 No, I can't point you to a clip. First, figure out how many 'panels' you want. Say you want 60 panels. Then decide how many panels you want on screen at once. Say you want 3 at once. That means it has to be the width and height of the composition/3. Once you have that, on PS you can create a canvas that is 60* the width of 1 panel. Put them all in a row and export as one long picture. Then on After Effects, its a simple keyframe animation from right to left of the image over a given time. put this into chatGPT if you're still stuck.

[@kyarailumi]

use transition to connect every picture

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

Thank you for this video 👍 All these Indians that say they did all the fighting for the British empire in ww2 and the Brits didnt India🇮🇳 2,581,000 =1.6% of male population (90,000 military deaths) UK🇬🇧 5,896,000 = 24.4% of male population (383,000 military deaths)

[@Jerry-tg7zx]

The audible difference in population percentage of India really puts in perspective why it was described as an untapped well of unlimited manpower and resources

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

@@Jerry-tg7zx the British could have raised far,far more Indian forces but the sad truth is a lot of Indians were considered untrustworthy that's why they kept the British Indian army an all volunteer force. You just have to look at the amount of Indians that fought for both the Nazis and Japanese to see they weren't as loyal to the British as say the Canadians or Australians. With that being said a lot of Indians were loyal and fought gallantly for the allied cause in ww2 especially in Burma.

[@dakedakinson64]

Bengal famine casualties: 3 million.

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

@@dakedakinson64 that's from a famine not from warfare. India's combat deaths stand at 90,000 and not all of those were fighting on the side of the Allies

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

Considering China only mobilized 5% and was at the limit, your simplistic view of mobilization is laughable. Both China and India were full on agrarian societies, most food production and sustenance were produced via menial labour. You said the Bengal famine was famine, not war death, well guess what, if they mobilize more, guess how many more famines there could be? Nice Marie Antoinette right there not considering how poor and less industrialized some countries are.

[@joeschembrie9450]

Greeks: "We're gonna put fluffy puffs on our shoes and wear capes. Because we invented logic."

[@zharziss]

If you're gonna kick Italy's ass, at least do it with style.

[@user-hd1pe2sh7y]

Nah in ww2 no one wore these except for parades and only the euzones regiments. The cape is to keep the soldiers on the mountains warm it was a hash winter P.S. these puffs were hiding blades(most of the time poisonous) when they were in use

[@vasilisgm8966]

@@zharziss That was our style. And that was one of the best in WWII because it scared the shit out of the Italians. I would not want to be in their position if I saw these light infantrymen rush at me with their bayonets and rifles.

[@davidjones3712]

The South African flag displayed here is the old "Red Duster ", which was replaced in 1928 by the Oranje Blanje Blou.

[@akosromhanyi6124]

There should be another video exactley the same way, but with the casulties of each countries

[@HistoryBattle]

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[@arturmazurkiewicz6821]

nice video. Author some countries had the whole war to develop mobilization. Others, such as Poland, Belgium and Yugoslavia, were quickly occupied. and this Pole is not in a Polish uniform but in a British one.

[@valerym1400]

History Battle! What about the death percentage of mobilized people? Could you add it?

[@HistoryBattle]

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[@Chabier-mx2mz]

What about volunteers? From countries not shown here

[@user-hm8eh6be8c]

8 из 10 солдат вермахта были убиты на восточном фронте. Но помимо этого Хорватия, Венгрия, Румыния, Словакия, Финляндия, Италия ( экспедиционный корпус 250 000), Испания ( Голубая дивизия), Войска Ваффен-СС (добровольцы со всей Европы - 1 000 000) воевали восточном фронте. И всё они были разбиты. Поэтому такое количество мобилизованных в СССР и такое количество потерь.

[@speedruiner7213]

Wet dreams

[@user-hm8eh6be8c]

@@speedruiner7213 Only facts. You think so, because in your schools they now teach you that the United States won the war, but they don't mention the USSR. In order not to be so ignorant, ask for a start:1) participation and number of troops of Hungary, Romania, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia in the war. The Americans did not fight with them at all. But where did they go? There was also an Italian corps of 250,000 in Russia. More than half of them stayed here

[@speedruiner7213]

@@user-hm8eh6be8c That's the thing. It is your wet Dream whether or not it is factually correct.

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

measuring contribution simply by how many human casualties you inflicted is a very simplistic and short sighted method in a modern war. For example British and commonwealth forces sank 519 U-Boats in ww2 (the US sank 175 and the Soviets sank 15 btw) that amounts to approximately 23,000-25,000 men lost to British and commonwealth forces. Now that's doesn't sound a lot in comparison to the German losses in the land campaigns on the eastern front however if you consider that a U-Boat depending on type weighed the equivalent of between 30 & 50 Panzer IV's losing say four U-Boats would be roughly in (terms of materials lost) the equivalent of losing a panzer Division. Now if four U-Boats are sunk between 160 & 180 Men will be killed. If an entire Divisions worth of panzers is wiped out the death toll would be a lot higher so saying that killing the most men makes you the most affective force is not really accurate. My point is although suffering less in terms of casualties in terms of resources and war material the war against the western allies was just as devastating for Germany as the war against the Soviets was.

[@alauda1038]

​@@speedruiner7213сейчас Россия одна бьёт 50 стан нато и уже убила 420 000 🇺🇦🐷, 😁

[@gogosurgov3611]

Bulgaria in 1944-1989 has a 450.000 soldier In ww2 has 825.000

[@suryawannurmansyah9271]

Finland did not join the Axis, she was only fighting to take over the territories that had been annexed by the Soviets, so that Germany, who knew that Finland was fighting the Soviets, finally joined the war with Finland to attack the Soviets, but Finland surrendered before Germany launched Operation Barbarossa and Finland is recorded as having not signed the Tripartite Pact

[@midnike8783]

Of course you're lying. The Finnish Nazis were allies of the German Nazis. And they used the same methods. With death camps and total ethnic cleansing in the occupied Russian territories. Not to mention the fact that the German troops were fighting from the territory of Finland and some of the Finnish troops were directly subordinated to them. But of course they were not allies... And Great Britain did not declare war on Finland, did it?

[@6876I]

​@@midnike8783🤡

[@nelsonjaviervillaherreralo3931]

Primeramente, felicito el excelente trabajo del que hizo este video. Breve, conciso, preciso y muy bien hecho (me gustan las imágenes que representan a cada ejército de esas naciones beligerantes). Tema aparte, me sorprende ver los polos opuestos de participantes de estos ejércitos, en cuanto a porcentaje de movilizados se refiere: la India, con un "irrisorio" 1.6 %, mandó a la guerra a casi una quincuagésima parte de su población masculina, mientras que Alemania, con su 42 %, mandó a la guerra a menos de la mitad de su población masculina. Por supuesto, se habla en condiciones de ir a la guerra. Ambos ejércitos, en relación de porcentajes, se encuentran muy cerca: el primero está en noveno lugar y el segundo, en segundo lugar. Solamente se distancian entre sí siete lugares.

[@PabloRodriguez-ce6vj]

naa al tío se olvidó de los españoles que lucharon voluntarios

[@raposarommelofc]

If there were 30 countries that mobilized to WW2, why not to include te other 7? By the way, I loved the soldiers pictures.

[@martinnovak5662]

What about Czechoslovakia? There was 1 250 000 mobilized men in Czechoslovakia

[@jairopalacioschanga5312]

ES DE ALEMANIA

[@lucatricky1457]

The Volunteer Spanish Blue Division in the eastern front that included even few hundreds of portugueses volunteers, Albanian, Waffen Div., The 3 Baltic countries fighting with the Axis, Korean enlisted with Japan army, Turkmenistan units, Slovenians, Swiss volunteers enlisted in the Wermacht...and so on

[@hansmohammed5486]

?????

[@midnike8783]

Korea was part of the Japanese Empire from 1910, so Koreans are included in the Japanese conscription.

[@jakubklusek5816]

I'm very disappointed that You put polish soldier in bristish uniform (polish units in African front I suppose). It should be our beautiful polish uniform from the 1939 campaign!

[@user-sc5we9cm3w]

music pls

[@francois-mariearouet9379]

Not so fun fact: Poland mobilised 14.8% of their male adult population and lost 25%.

[@vincenzo4965]

Mostly civilian

[@mordegardglezgorv2216]

@@vincenzo4965 mostly jews

[@robertomedeiros8880]

Faltou o Brasil. Mandamos uma divisão de infantaria, um grupo de caça e uma esquadrilha de ligação que lutaram na Itália em 1944/1945. E a nossa marinha patrulhou o atlantico sul, caçando os submarinos alemães

[@danielrudolf5441]

Wrong flag for Canada. The maple leaf flag exists since 1965.

[@proyectocms]

Are you sure about France?...if the data is real, it means that its whole population was about 80 million during the war...I think that the figure you show refers not to the % of the male population, but to the total

[@rafaelgoncalvesdias7459]

What my country didnt even made it to the list. Weve sent a boat.

[@peter6850]

You missed Slovakia.

[@johnbates6998]

When these stats are calculated you must put all of the British empire together as it had one supreme command strategy and used the same equipment, UK. Australia. Canada. New Zealand, India. South Africa plus all other colonies

[@Agnemons]

No, it clearly breaks out India, South Africa, Canada and Australia.

[@gertpotgieter6461]

South Africa made significant contributions to the Allied war effort. Some 135,000 white South Africans fought in the East and North African and Italian campaigns, and 70,000 Blacks and Coloureds served as labourers and transport drivers. Regarding the role of South African soldiers in World War II - according to Encyclopedia Britannica

[@peregrine1925]

There is a saying in my country : he who sows the wind reaps the storm. I love comments section under this video. 😂

[@mv_5878]

Fun fact: Finland was at war with USSR, Germany and Britain in the WW2. Of the capitals in European countries involved in WW2, only London, Moscow and Helsinki were never occupied.

[@ignasiusdimascahyo3488]

If you means all capital in Europe. There're still Stockholm, Madrid, Lisbon, Dublin, Reykjavik, and Andorra la Vella.

[@mv_5878]

@@ignasiusdimascahyo3488 I specifically said of European countries involved in WW2 Sweden, Spain, Iceland, Ireland were neutral and did not see action.

[@ignasiusdimascahyo3488]

@@mv_5878 Iceland was Royal Navy base during battle of Atlantic, Andorra was transit place by jewish or Allies spy who escaped from Nazi and Vichy. There's some Spanish who join with Azul division, Spain was Abwehr base before their sabotage mission to Gibraltar base, Sweden sell their steel to German and Norwegian jewish escape place from Nazi and Quisling regime. On 1944 Sweden was transit place by German soldier who had escaped from Eastern Front and from Finland (Lapland War/after September 1944 Finland make truce with Soviet Union and out from Axis powers). Portugal was involved in WW2 because east Timor (Portugese's colony in east Indian island/Indonesia) had been occupied by Japanese. Ireland involved in WW2 because some Royal Air Force pilot or Luftwaffe pilot had been saved from emergency landing and they didn't realized they landing on Ireland during Battle of Britain. Some Irish soldier join into Market Garden Operation in 1944.

[@henrihamalainen300]

@@mv_5878 Iceland was occupied by Brits the same day Germany invaded Holland and Belgium...

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

That is interesting👍. Another fun fact Finland is the only democracy The UK has ever gone to war with

[@levkriscoins9115]

Norway, with the fewest soldiers, held out the longest of all the allies. Longer than France Germany also lost 50% of its fleet in Norway.

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

True but most of the German fleet sunk in Norway was by the British not the Norwegians

[@rikiorikio9368]

you didn't portrait Spain's blue division, quite a missing there mate

[@jahenders]

FInland wasn't technically part of the Axis

[@KisHeszusz]

Hungary military losses in WWII: Killed in action:120.000-140.000 if we count those soldiers who died as POW more than 200.000 (GULAG is GULAG) Wounded:90.000-100.000 Missed in action: 120.000-130.000 Prisoner of war: 500.000-700.000 So if we count Hungary has 140%!? casualites.

[@fidel1803]

Conditions of Soviet POV in axis powers were hundred times more terrible than in soviet camps for POV.

[@Masquerade456]

Hope they learnt their lesson.

[@KisHeszusz]

@@fidel1803 Definetly! As I know there all the prisoner camps were under controll of the Germans and we all knew what did it mean for an "untermensch". I think the worst if you were a POW, you become a traitor of the Soviet Union.

[@victorhugoberckeranacleto7641]

About casualties, yes, that happens sometimes, actually. There's a video from Brandon F. called "Over 100% casualties in the Great War", in this video he explains that not every casualty is a death, and since many soldiers got hurt and needed to get out the front and then came back, just to hurt themselves again, this causes a high amount of casualties. Also keep in mind that census is a very difficult thing to do even today, imagine things back then, an example is the Paraguay War of 1864. Solano Lopes, the Paraguay "president" lied the total population of the Paraguay before the war, and after the end, the winners counted the population again, and comparing the two datas they realised only 50% of females and merely 5% of the males were still alive after the war, which was obviously not true. In the case of the Hungarians, maybe a little deviation could be occurred, but nonetheless the lost they suffered during, and mainly, after the war was huge.

[@user-mm7nw5ly5p]

140% casualties. And someone think, that Hungarian army was good

[@pedrodavimendes220]

They always forget the thousands of brazilians who fought in italy, and those who died on european soil

[@ivanpetro8464]

Brazil: 25.000

[@szurnietymedrzec2796]

Senator Armstrong join the chat

[@mafrjo742]

And Brasil ???

[@peterware3676]

my father fought in africa and italy for nearly 3 years many of us kiwis did the same. A serious ommision and bloody insulting

[@thebloodwolf9906]

14 million soldiers Mobilization rate: 5% China be like: Cut of one head, 10 more shall take its place

[@htjohn8202]

damn this whole ww2 thing was like a csgo game but as the axis you start with 1 noob (eastern countries like romania and bulgaria) and 1 troller: italy vs a team that for some reason has 10‘players instead of 5

[@Siwushwiw]

British mobilize almost 2.5 million indian solider in ww2

[@kimon114]

New Zealand ????

[@LangLebeDasKaisertumOestereich]

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[@yus527_]

You forgot Slovakia.

[@Snuffy03]

Everybody who could make it to the induction center under their own steam.

[@jes3d]

finland 38% is wild

[@SD78]

No New Zealand with 140,000? Canada has wrong flag.

[@azorahai7837]

Basically every second or third male in Germany was drafted.

[@marc6615]

Forgotten Brazil moreless 30.000 men .

[@lucasdamotta2931]

Not 1% of male population.

[@marc6615]

WW2 Brazil"s casualties Navy 400 deads army 465 deads 3 missing air force 8 deads civilians 600 deads all in torpedoed ships . Brazilians at war 1944-1945 Italy kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZOwlIaMnLWdpLc

[@javierrojas976]

Erm you forgot Bajookieland we sent a total of 50% of our male population which is the equivalent of 5 people

[@kellymcbright5456]

Mobilization around 20-25 percent: scraping the barrel at severe losses of industrial output. But 30% or more? impossible without cheating.

[@Gustavogukpa]

Brazil mobilised a million, but it is not displayed here... If course, of that million only 25k fought in Europe, maybe that is why.

[@R2H1796]

India mobilized almost 2.6 million and it did not reach 2% damn

[@Jerry-tg7zx]

Untapped resource well indeed

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

@@Jerry-tg7zx not really, India was agrarian back then, tapping that manpower means no one producing food, which means famine, which means mass dying

[@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621]

Not India but British Raj

[@brettk9316]

American logistics pretty amazing if 16,354,000 mil men actually crossed those two gigantic oceans to get to the fighting.

[@tomson5608]

World Wars 1 and 2 - a gift to people from bankers

[@lucasdamotta2931]

USSR mobilized like 10% less than germany and still assembled like 15 Milion men more, almost twice as Germany.

[@fidel1803]

Soviet Union 34 mln = 35%. Thus population of USSR must be 100 mln. It's wrong. Population was about 180-200 mln. Therefore the figure of mobilization is about 20%.

[@dr.d5920]

Every country has its period flag except Canada and its Red Ensign under which our men fought and died. The Maple Leaf flag came in the 1960s.

[@thf1933]

Germany+Axis against Soviet Union. Calculate.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

Still missing major people like Indian soldiers deployed to North Africa both for allies and axis. Over 6 million people from the commonwealth deployed.

[@HistoryBattle]

9th place

[@joelmonkley6177]

@@HistoryBattle new Zealand lost the most .men percentage out of commonwealth forces 67 percent of male population served 18 to 45 new Zealand's declaration of war was made on its own unlike Australia waited for the king 👑 fact

[@Siwushwiw]

@@joelmonkley6177 really

[@Siwushwiw]

@@joelmonkley6177 wow

[@angusrogers9366]

@@joelmonkley6177 Outrageous NZ didn't get on the list since they were very important in North Africa and Italy later

[@alexstoyanov6108]

There is a significant mistake. USSR mobilized includes pre-war Red Army numbers, but Germany`s mobilised - excludes. There were more than 21 million Germans adrafted into Wehrmaht.

[@williambodin5359]

Finland is always put in the "Axis" category. They were only fighting at all because the "Soviets" invaded them and then happened to go to war with the Germans. Ruzzians, invading peaceful neighbors since 1939.

[@wafton10yearsago30]

Very upsetting that you missed out on Thailand, they mobilized about 80,000 men as an axis power in ww2

[@betula2137]

01:29: Australia

[@Talltrees84]

Assume this is from official numbers that make up the official established armed forces. Many irregular resistance and partisan groups formed in Axis occupied nations. Small detail, the modern Canadian flag was not the same as the one during the 1940's. Small detail. In the movie "Untouchables" the T-Men raid a Capone warehouse where crates have Made In Canada with the Maple Leaf on them.

[@leongaultier554]

Germany and it's allies were outnumbered and outgunned but yet managed somehow to withstand and almost won.

[@GEO_ANIMATOR]

14 million man from china and that's just 5% 💀

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

If China could mobilize like the Soviet Union, Japan would've lost within a year. Think about it, 98 million man army...... Doesn't even matter if they are inferiorly equipped anymore. But the reality was that an agrarian society could only mobilize that much, anything more would result in mass starvation everywhere, and death from that mounting to astronomical numbers.

[@paullozaw3212]

When you say "Part of the male population that has been mobilized," do you mean of each respective country?

[@charlesgrant-skiba5474]

The figures given for France and Yugoslavia are debatable. A significant proportion of the French and the residents of the former Yugoslavia collaborated or actively fought on the side of the Axis powers (Only Croats are listed here). The Italians also changed sides at the end of the war., etc. The total count given here is: Allies - 86,067,000; Axis Powers - 30,450,000, but missing Czechs, Slovaks, Albanians, Danes, New Zealanders, representatives of some African colonies (fighting on the side of the Allies), volunteers from Spain, Sweden and other countries. It is also difficult to say on what data this figures are based.

[@jeffkodiac]

"A significant proportion of the French " is that your job devoted to spread ignorance ?

[@charlesgrant-skiba5474]

@@jeffkodiac Dear Jeff, at the beginning of the war, only 2% of French adults were involved in an active and prolonged struggle against Germany and the Vichy regime. Initially, they were mainly communists (about 40,000 of them lived in France at the time - although some of them also collaborated, eg Louis Aragon). In the early phase of the resistance movement there were several thousand permanent members of the Resistance, in 1942 tens of thousands, in early 1944 over 200,000. It wasn't until late 1944, when the war was almost over, that the number of members of the Resistance increased to 500,000. After the war, about 270,000 combatant cards were issued, because only so many Frenchmen could prove their active participation in the resistance movement. To this, however, must be added almost 100,000 partisans and other members of the resistance killed in combat, shot and murdered in camps. However, it should also be taken into account that in the French resistance movement (Maquis, Résistance, etc.) also many foreigners fought (and thus non-French). When the Germans were already withdrawing from France, more than 120,000 soldiers of the French Internal Forces (so far collaborating with the Nazis as representatives of the Vichy regime) joined the fight against them. Nevertheless, according to the research of historians (including French), there were about 2 - 2.5 million opponents of Vichy and the Nazis (including those who manifested their opposition through various aid activities, reading underground press, listening to BBC radio, sabotage or passive resistance). This gives a maximum of 10% of French adults who expressed more or less firm opposition to German rule. It is enough to read the memoirs of French Jews or Polish forced laborers working at that time in France. You can also look at the list of writers who collaborated with the Nazis and the Vichy regime. They were not some obscure, second-class writers, but the real giants of French literature: François Mauriac, Jean Paulhan, André Gide, André Malraux, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon and Simone de Beauvoir. The latter was even awarded a special Goncourt Prize by the Germans. A separate topic is the so-called collaboration horizontale - "horizontal collaboration". In 1942, France experienced a demographic boom. French women gave birth to over 200,000 children whose fathers were German soldiers. This shows the magnitude of the phenomenon. Among the women living with the occupier there were not only "ordinary" French women but also representatives of the elite, including daughters of Daisy Fellowes, editor-in-chief of the famous fashion magazine "Harper's Bazaar", the famous Coco Chanel and also Arletty, a star of pre-war cinema, etc. Many of these women were later tortured and even killed (as well as gay men sleeping with the enemy). For Hitler, not only Vichy policemen and soldiers fought and died, but also French SS volunteers (their units even fought to the end in defense of besieged Berlin). Therefore, it is difficult to include the given number of French war casualties (military and civilian) as casualties on the side of the Allies (and this applies not only to France, although this is the clearest example). Regards.

[@antoineperrin-beau9138]

​@@charlesgrant-skiba5474 what you're telling is propaganda, of course most of the population was forced to collaborate, and his collaboration consisted to let germain soldier live with them, the part of real collaboration and was ridiculus (the collaboration was from the Vichy regime which wasn't accepted at all by the french, because they had been quickly betrayed by it), you're telling that ost of the resistance was people who saw that the war was ending but it's totally false, the real story was that General de Gaulle was calling from the english radio every day of the war, and because most of people didn't have access to it, the transmission of his message didn't take only a few month, and finally, the resistance was a lot more important than the collaboration. The worst is that the production of the collaboration was often destroyed by french resistance. NOW after the battle of France half of the germain air force was lost, hundreds of germain tanks were destroyed and the escape of the english is 100% thanks to the french who resisted to the germain even if the french high comanders were absolutly bad against great germain generals. Dunkerque is the perfect exemple of that, french who were fighting when english were leaving, a few french survivors could go on boats to retreat to UK of course AFTER all the english had leaved. NOW it's not finished, with the proportion of the french army who escaped the germain encirclement in France and with colonials soldiers, General de Guaulle had an army of almost 100000 soldiers who helped the english in africa (were hitler wanted the oil to continue the war). All of this exemples show that France deserved to be in allies side, I don't believe that you don't respect the hundreds of thousand of french who died by resisting, fighting in 1940 and with the colonial army, and prisonners. At the end of the day, the French died in the side of allies, and a ridiculus part of the French died in Axe side. It's eazy to compare France and Russia, if Russia had the territory of France, the number of soldiers of France, they couldn't suvrive a DAY. (because Stalingrad, Moscow, Kursk, every of these Russian wins were in overwhelming numerical superiority)

[@jansundvall2082]

You are missing that Sweden and Switzerland although neutral had significant numbers mobilised during Second World War

[@jeffkodiac]

@@charlesgrant-skiba5474 That's what I thought. This does not explain in any way, the ridiculous and unfounded things that you said at the beginning. That is to say that an important part of the French collaborated with the Nazis. Then if we base ourselves on what you say, like for example on Andre Malraux, that he would have collaborated with the Germans, whereas he fought in Spain against the Nazis and the Italian fascists, that he refused to publish in newspapers close to Vichy and that he entered the resistance. One realizes to what point what you say is a load of bullshit. Now, I would like to know what country you are from? So we can see how perfect your country was during this war ????

[@mrvk39]

I am surprised by high % drafted by far-away places like Australia and low percentage drafted by places occupied like the Netherlands and France. Why they drafted such a small percentage of population? Why didn't they resist the Germany more? I get how it wasn't an equal fight but UK was there with a far greater percentage drafted. Is it because they were occupied and couldn't draft successive generations turning 18 for 5 years?

[@jamesharper197]

I don't know the answer for sure. However, my educated guess would be countries such as the Netherlands were defeated too quickly to fully mobilise. You also have to remember that Australia were terrified of invasion by Japan so could be considered a front line

[@alastair9446]

Neatherlands fell in two weeks and you could say a surprise attack by Germans. Australia still part of British Emipre and had concerns with a Japanese invasion and thy 5 years to get that drafted.

[@sg0310]

Australia was because an Invasion by Japan was very likely until midway

[@mrvk39]

@@jamesharper197 good point about Japan being nearby (well not really but within reach).

[@mrvk39]

@@alastair9446 right on about mobilization not happening quick enough. I suspected that was the reason but wasn't sure.

[@GK-cb3vc]

A very misleading video. Example: the Netherlands may have mobilized 400 000 for the allies in 1940 but they got de-mobilized faster than you could say "Fall Gelb" with 90% of soldiers never firing a single bullet. If you count how long the dutch fought and for which side their SS division Wiking and Volunteer Legion (that joined the axis in 1941) take the cake by any rational measure. And before you start crying about the dutch resistance consider that 95% of their "fighting" was done with posters and pamphlets so give me a break. So honestly speaking (dutch Jews aside ofc), I resent how folks in the NL manage to squeeze themselves in front of the queue in every WWII discussion as if they contributed anything more than a really solid graveyard for the allied soldiers in 1944.

[@tigervv6437]

"90% of the soldiers never firing a single bullet" That is factually not true. The 5 days in may 1940 saw some pretty bitter fighting all over the Netherlands. Most army units saw actual combat, to some extend very intense, causing some sensitive losses to the Luftwaffe in the process. Only most of the garrison troops in Noord-Holland did not see any fighting. As for the resistance/collaboration part I can agree to some extend, however the Dutch merchant fleet and refineries in the carribean were very big assets to the allies.

[@thepedronix5318]

the phillipines and new zealand was left out

[@camachorodriguez4359]

9100.000 for Italy on a people 0f 40.000.000 in 1940. Maybe recruiting babies and grandfathers..

[@ryanfohl7185]

Left out Brazil