The Countries with the Most Human Losses in WWII

The Countries with the Most Human Losses in WWII.
The National WWII Museum.

[@anatolfrombelarus7940]

The USSR lost 27,000,000 including the civilian population. My grandfather is Belarusian, he fought first in the Polish Army (Voisko Polsko), and at the end of the war already as part of the Red Army. He survived and that's why I'm writing here. In Belarus, a third of the population has died in a few years. Eternal memory to all heroes!

[@firben4629]

Unión Soviética perdió tanta gente por el genocidio de su propio gobierno comunista

[@gregoryjlawrence4696]

They also started the war, a long with Hitler.

[@GegeDxD]

@@gregoryjlawrence4696 desperation is crazy thing, isn't it?

[@yvonnefurniss138]

Yes I was going to say that. They drove the Germans back to Germany.

[@viacheslavstarr3563]

USSR 43 000 000.(about 40% of archives are open) China 30 000 000

[@user-zl6hk1kp4o]

Puts the war in China and the Pacific into perspective. The scale of what the Russians suffered is well known. But what the Japanese Empire did in China, SE Asia, and the Pacific far less so. It's all but a forbidden topic in Japan itself, but the Chinese remember.

[@jidun9478]

Yeah but shortly after the War Mao the leader of the Communist party with his army and policies killed 40 million more.

[@mtb416]

Ask any gen Z kid today about Hiroshima and they’ll say the Japanese didn’t deserve it. Todays kids know only the totally neutered version of Japan. They have no idea the horrors they once inflicted.

[@Artok444]

​@@mtb416The Japanese really didn't deserve. As none of the countries deserved any cruelties.

[@mtb416]

@@Artok444 Go read “The Rape of Nanking” and get back to me. Your idealism/naïveté won’t play to the Chinese who remember the horrors.

[@alexxxXXXrus]

Unit 731

[@carriebryan1211]

Would be interesting to see that graph as a percentage of each country's population.

[@wingedhussar5528]

Poland would be at 20% which puts it at number for population loss based on pre war total population.

[@Longtack55]

​@@wingedhussar552835 million population and 6 million deaths = 17%. Tragic. My age 9 teacher in NZ was a Polish refugee. Hard man.

[@devincampbell5007]

Then China definitely wouldn’t be as close to the top. They wouldn’t be low at all but they wouldn’t be top 2 close

[@helgaioannidis9365]

Yes, Greece had not even 7 million people and lost around 11% of their population.

[@tonyp2601]

The Philippines would be close to the top.

[@bg4097]

Greece and Poland numbers when considering the geography and prior population are unbelievable losses

[@Ed-ts4bj]

It’s a tragedy when one dies, it’s a statistic when ten-thousand die, your graph is truly mind numbing! Thank You

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

I am appalled at the Polish losses. An innocent country. And the only one that repaid their war debt to the USA. Also, the Japanese got away with literally millions of murders in China.

[@TheDanno34]

Britain made the final war debt payments to US and Canada in 2006.

[@SnakeP1tPoetry]

Poland was not innocent, and no one should pay any " war debt", especially not to the USA.

[@robertnussberger6449]

Even today if usa didn't protect Japan. The Chinese would invade them and commit mass atrocities even today

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

@@TheDanno34 2006? What was the hurry?

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

@brokendrummachine2539 So tell me why. But don't bother if it is that the Poles attacked a german radio station.

[@encouragingword1172]

That was a great presentation. The way it was done really makes a person think about how devastating that war was. So many deaths in a few short years.

[@Car_Factory_007]

As an Indian, this is not even our war but were dragged into this by the Britishers. 2.5 million losses.....hardly 5-10% people of India know the contribution of India in WW2. Neither people of India knows nor the the Britishers acknowledges their valuable contribution which is a sad part😢 RIP Comrades 🙏

[@stevepowell6503]

You are right. I have studied military history my whole life and only recently started reading about India's contributions to the World Wars.

[@SurfingTheMentawais]

If the 'Britishers' hadn't dragged you into WWII how do you think it would have taken the Japanese to invade India ( they actually did) and how would India have defended itself? Maybe the same way the good people of Nangking defended themselves.

[@Car_Factory_007]

@@SurfingTheMentawais yes that is a fair point but I was specifically pointing out the war in Africa and Europe that is not ours and majority of sacrifices are in these regions.

[@yogeshpathak73]

And you are not including the 3 million Indians who died due to man made famine imposed on India by Butcher of Bengal Winston Churchill

[@SurfingTheMentawais]

Yes, let's not forget history. How many millions of Indians died over the last 5,000 years due to the corrupt and savage behaviour of Indian Rajas and other local religious groups? 10 million? 20 million? More? @@Car_Factory_007

[@nw4042]

My takeaway here: Politicians and diplomats need to find every way possible to keep wars from happening. Those numbers are to the nearest hundred thousand people killed. A sheer estimate to the scale of a city the size of Albany NY. Every person in it, and we literally do not know whether that many people lived or died in 10 different countries. For the whole world, a million people may or may not have died and or existed. The scale of devastation was such that people, their known contracts, and records of one million people were lost to history. War must be the absolute last resort, and made to have the most crystal clear, finite, achievable and as limited as possible objectives. Sincerely, combat vet.

[@redsurf1234]

War is big money for the elites

[@Michael-rj1jb]

Why would politicians do that? They make big money from wars.

[@KamchatkaElisowo]

Ничего ваши политики и дипломаты не могут сделать . Приходит Путин и начинает убивать людей. И никто ничего не может сделать с ним .

[@Ad-8888]

So far, as an Indonesian, I didn't know that there was so many victims, because this wasn't written in the history book we read

[@HeathOakrayzy]

A great way to help people truly understand just how horrific and brutal that relatively short war was and show the staggering # of people who were killed in it.

[@dailydouble2286]

It’s crazy to think that the U.S. had almost as many casualties in The Civil War as they did in both World Wars combined

[@sangoten9874]

Hope that WWIII never start.

[@Mr.Ditkovich.]

It will happen. There is zero doubt.

[@anigiri34]

​@@Mr.Ditkovich.Hope that it will never start

[@anigiri34]

​@@Mr.Ditkovich.or otherwise die

[@Zy4nnn]

​@@anigiri34.Will start in a few days/years/months

[@anigiri34]

@@Zy4nnn WHY THE HECK DO YOU WANT ThAT?!

[@KeisonMibute]

The enormous cost of contempt. This generation is moving right up to start it all over again.

[@user-iy4pc6cl3w]

The only problem is that they don't understand it yet. Millions will die before they learn.

[@johnmeckel2319]

Concider that those Massive losses were created with Conventional Arms! Think of what would happen Should the World be Forced into WWIII, due to Maniacal Dictatorships and Weak Leadership Again, as We Teeter on the Edge! This is Why Our History is So Vitality Important, and Must Be Taught to Our Children, and kept Fresh in the minds of All Humans! Humans are Supposed to Learn From Our History!

[@JoshuaTootell]

When you say "this generation", make sure you are thinking about the correct generation...the people in power.

[@brianellis6517]

Sad to know, that wasn't just a "number" but "soul" 😔

[@ShiftyGeeza]

So the colonies of Britain, France and the Dutch lost more than 10 times the lives of the European allies and the US put together. And all the while I thought that Tom Hanks single handedly defeated the Nazis.

[@anna9072]

This was very interesting. I would be really interested in seeing this broken down as percentage of population, rather than absolute numbers.

[@bobbarclay316]

Imagine if grief had weight. How much? imagine if each death put the same amount of weight on us as the loss of you first child would. That's the burden put on all of us by war. We people should pay a lot less attention to what Kings, politicians, dictators, and war lords tell us.

[@UseYourNoodle]

The Chinese involvement is barely remembered or spoken about, at least here in Europe - so sad with so many lives lost. Hard to imagine the ties we had with China and USSR with how things are now. Faults on all sides

[@Georgia4Low]

China's involvement during WW2 was a genocide being perform by Japan.

[@penelope8557]

I can't even begin to imagine how much research and work you put into this presentation. Thank you very much.

[@Threegunmaster]

I've watched and read alot through the years about WW2 and you never see much about China ,I wonder why?

[@walowalt4655]

Same bro..im confused

[@jacquesjtheripper5922]

Yh i never thought they had so many casualties. They dont show up much in ww2 history docs or movies ive seen

[@WomanNextDoor]

There was a civil war going on in China as well as the Japanese invasion. The controlling nationalist party was fighting CCP guerilla warfare as well as the Japanese so I'm guessing this is why the casualty figures are so high. Chiang Kai Shek was eventually defeated by the CCP and fled to Taiwan.

[@mikespencer4922]

China got hammered by Japan long before Pearl Harbour.

[@greybush6939]

Because you are only supposed to feel bad for the Jews

[@terryboehler5752]

Thank you for the real time numbers. Very telling.

[@rahad47]

Your making video software name?

[@nik205]

The losses of the Soviet army during the Winter War were ~50-170 thousand killed (depending on sources), during the Polish campaign ~1.5-3 thousand were killed. It is not clear why by the beginning of the war on the Eastern Front the USSR already had almost 3 million losses, besides, the losses of the Finnish side do not reflect reality - even according to official Finnish data they estimate their losses at 26 thousand killed and 43 thousand wounded.

[@shawnbasil1600]

Those numbers include Stalin's purges within the country. Between 1922 and Stalin' death in the early 50s, he murdered nearly 20 million of his own people whom he suspected of "disloyalty".

[@nik205]

@@shawnbasil1600 I wrote specifically about the period 1939-41 (before the invasion of Germany and its allies) that 3 million losses could not have come from there, even taking into account the deaths during this period of time in the Gulag. The famine happened earlier in 1932-33, and the Great Terror happened in 1937 (perhaps the most brutal year of Stalin’s rule).

[@blankman_gaming]

This thing is bullshit. At the end of the western campaign France has way more losses than presented here.

[@nik205]

⁠​⁠@@shawnbasil1600 The video is called losses in the Second World War, and not during the Second World War, and especially should not cover the victims of communism during the 35 years of the Lenin-Stalin regime. Still, the victims of political repression of communism before, during and after the Second World War deserve a separate video. P.S. For the future, try not to use numbers or at least use the ranges of these numbers. The logic of the pro-communists is as follows (a lot of experience in arguing with them) they catch you in a “lie”, and since you lied here, then the rest is a lie. A purely hypothetical example - you stated that the communists killed 20 million, and the pro-communist objects to you not 20, but 19.9 million were killed! You are a liar! A simplified example, but it gets the point across. Once, in an argument with a pro-communist, I said that millions were killed in 1937 alone, and he told me not millions, but 700 thousand only. As if that changes the point.

[@alexidino]

​@@nik205never write about you know nothing. 20million imaginate it in you head, If he killed 20ml mens, USSR population will be decrease with very huge speed. I'm russian and was speaking with my grandmothers in 1990... 20 million it's total lie. I hope you understand me, because I'm not native speaker.

[@wwk9818]

A lot of troops. When the war truly began in 1937, the Japanese committed 300k troops at Shanghai alone compared to 700k troops in China. In the 1939-1940 winter offensive, the Japanese was said to have 850k men and in 1944 during operation Ichi-go Japan deployed 1 million men. China saw the largest concentration of Japanese troops, eclipsing all the other fronts combined. In contrast, the largest concentration of Japanese the American face was in the Philipines, and the Japanese only had 500k men for a whole country. How brutal was the fighting ? Think world war 1, on steroid. On one hand you got the Chinese: an army whose only three strengths were a/inexhaustible supply of men, b/some decent generals (Xue Yue, Sun Li-jen, Wang Yao-Wu, Sun Lianzhong), and c/A massive interior so hard to traverse the Soviet Union looked like route 66. The Chinese was basically like the Russian empire army during WW1, only with more disunity, more in-fighting, less support, worse arms and equipment. Against them were die-hard Japanese who were also bickering and whose generals were also hopelessly useless in many cases (Yakaoma and Toshizo came to mind). It saw urban warfare terrible like that of Stalingrad (Shanghai, Changsa, Changde), massive trench warfare with massive use of biological and chemical weapons like World war 1, large scale extermination of population worse than even the Holocaust (the Chinese even drowned a million of their citizens by breaking the yellow river dam to stop the Japanese), and guerilla warfare that looked like Vietnam minus Napalm and helicopter playing Fortunate son. The morale of the Japanese troops in China is actually pretty bad. To be fair, both sides were fanatical: Chinese troops banzaied charge against the Japanese and had Dare-to-die corps who strapped grenades to them and try to run to tanks and blow themselves up. But it is true that Japanese morale in China was weaker because of the bleak aspect of war, the long slugging nature of the war so on and so forth. Many Japanese on the Pacific Islands fought to the death while many in China surrendered. The most famous example was the Kwantung army during Operation August storm: 500-700k men surrendered without any major resistance, the largest number of Japanese POW captured in history. More Japanese were captured in that one operation than all of Japanese POWS in every single foreign war Japan fought in, combined. It was a great source of shame for the Japanese who, until this day, refused to release the number of POWs captured in Manchuria. If China did not join the war, the American is fucked, hard. End of story. China was such a large sink of men and material that the Japanese could not send all her might to elsewhere. Not only that, China forced the Japanese to open the Burma-India front to cut supply through the Burma road for China, forcing her to bleed even more men and materiel. Think how hard would the Island hopping strategy be for the Americans if Japan could shift all her forces down South. Think how hard would it be for the Americans if they landed on Okinawa to find 200k Japanese, not 70k, on that island. Or into the Philippines and found 1 million, not 500k, Japanese there. And these Japanese would be way better armed, way better supplied since now most of the good stuffs were not expended in a war against China but could be used against America. In short, China was a shield that bore the brunt so America could strike Japan down with more ease.

[@jacquesjtheripper5922]

Surprising a such small country like japan had such a strong big military. I dont even remember how this started between japan and china really.

[@TheCjbowman]

Well, perhaps China prevented Japan from being nuked out of existence entirely. Ever consider that? There was no nuclear parity at the time.

[@seanm2216]

China didn't "join" the war because they were helping out. Japan invaded China and China was defending their land and paid a high price just as the Soviet Union did fighting Germany who invaded them. China fought in China simply because the Japanese were there. Also, Japan attacked the USA or the USA wouldn't have needed to fight Japan. Don't be like people who want to take credit for everything and discredit other nations. The USA did what they needed to do. Playing "what ifs" doesn't accomplish anything.

[@phuaalbert7644]

Today China is America's enemy...

[@wwk9818]

@@TheCjbowman Yes, it might also possibly have necessitated more atomic attacks as there would be more defenders, but that's quite speculative.

[@thegeop5906]

Wars - What a senseless waste through history since there are civilisations 😢

[@Rusorizuzkihditey]

the root of all wars is russia

[@Brit_Toolmaker]

Tell that to the ruSSians who enjoy starting wars with their neighbours!?!

[@Rusorizuzkihditey]

@@Brit_Toolmaker ruZZians

[@jojiczeljko88]

Yugoslavia had 15.5 m people before a war and lost 1m people... This is too much for population of Yugoslavia 😢

[@vinzgl4666]

WWII in the Philippines started in December 8, 1941, when Imperial Japan bombarded the islands. But by December 1, 1941, the Philippines' casualties are already more than 250,000. Where did you get your source about these? Did you include the casualties from the Philippine-American War which happened 40 years prior.

[@tedmccarron]

This graph is bogus. It is showing France as having lost less than 9,000 people after the battle of France was already over. That battle took over 70,000 French lives.

[@Jasper118]

I think it’s taking a countries total deaths and spreading it over the course of the war not necessarily accurately showing a timeline

[@eng13b10]

Yes, I was wondering the same thing.

[@tedmccarron]

@eng13b10 someone else figured it out in comments here. What the did when they made this video is take the total number of casualties for a nation and divide the death rate evenly from September 1, 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland to the day Japan surrendered in 1945. Therefore it shows people dying in their countries years before they even got into the war. To say that this is inaccurate is the understatement of the century. It's lazy, sloppy and had almost nothing to do with reality.

[@lynx541]

Could you do a video about military spending adjusted to 2023 money?

[@GegeDxD]

Why, to embarrass Americans 😅 With 10 times higher military budget than Russia, they are still behind in the military technologies. Better to not make a video 😉

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

Ha. No one can count that high.

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

Very powerful. Very sombre. Thanks for posting.

[@Peterd0e]

If you take overall population size before the war, Poland suffer the most, as it lost almost 1/7 of the overall population. Its out of the comparison

[@Army_Knights]

R.I.P. To those who had fought and fallen and the innocent lives that were taken. 🙏✝️✡️☮️❤️

[@kennyalbano1922]

Wow I actually always thought China played only a minor role in ww2 and had only losses from something I learned in history class as the rape of Nanking I think. I may be misspelling this. I always thought Japan,and the United States, accounted for about an equal amount of the losses that were tied for the 2nd most and Germany and Russia were tied for the most losses and everyone else just played a small role. I am from the United States. I guess my perspective of at least world wars has been shaped by my culture a good amount.

[@nickholaus]

Yes, you personally think correctly and are on the right path.

[@leeshackelford7517]

Odd, I'm 58, from California, and learned early on about Manchukuo and the fight the ROC had with the Japanese. It wasn't just Nanjing massacre....... Japan did control large sections of China....but in areas not controlled...Japan captured all the big coastal cities...... If you colored China white....you'd see large red area under jap control...large red area in south near today's Vietnam....then you'd see red polka dots all up the China Coast....all the coastal cities under Jap control And, let's say life wasn't pleasant for the Chinese in any of those cities

[@slugeater1938]

Do they really teach you that the US was the "main character" of the allies and sustained the most losses and fought hardest in the war?

[@mrmott44]

The USA hardly lost any soldiers and almost zero civilians. American industry won ww2 and was the only winner of the war. Soviets and China were victorious but lost more than Japan or Germany. At least the Germans admitted their faults honestly, unlike Japan that still lives in denial of its evil.

[@petekaster9185]

No not at all​@@slugeater1938

[@punlokomovicdevinho7611]

That Poland percentage though.

[@lpg12338]

Great job, pretty interesting.

[@jakubkrcma]

WWIII stats would be a bit different. And there would be nobody to make a video about them, in the end.

[@user-bn1pi5lm6l]

I'm just curious how accurate it is. I don't believe we have a census today so back then must have been just as bad?

[@thedreamscripter4002]

We still don't know exact numbers - because warfare was so brutal and devastating, that often it was impossible to keep track of all losses (plus lots of info was lost - that was time of paper documents and archives, there were no such fixation systems as nowadays, and etc.). Historians did huge works on trying to find precise numbers - and yet we still have several versions, each with aproximate numbers

[@slmjake]

Excellent! Please do this in a per capita graph

[@dottore3870]

It's fascinating to see Soviet casualties pile up over 6 million BEFORE Operation Barbarossa. Technically their entrance in the war. I guess the Poles and Finns did put up a mighty fight in those years from 1939 to 1941

[@Heart-Land]

СССР защищал Китай от Японии.

[@UTube4Junky]

ABSOLUTELY incorrect!! Soviets entry into the war was September 17, 1939 when they - along with their short-term ally nazi germany - invaded Poland from the east along with Hitler (who invaded on Sept 1 1939 from the west.) Remember that Soviet numbers are all cooked up! They’re literally including millions of “nazi victims” were actually soviet/russian victims. soviet union henchmen (NKVD/KGB and the rape army some referred to as red army) literally murdered Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, etc., etc. and then counted them as soviet (or their own) “casualties” since they’d annexed those countries as their own. So basically they murdered them and then blamed nazis for doing it (I.e. Katyń massacre just one example) To this day the west keeps pumping up the Soviet propaganda numbers. Yes, many people in Soviet U died - BUT a huge percentage of them were non-Russians murdered by soviets themselves. (PS. To be clear - Nazi germany was equally evil)

[@Yetinokles]

The timeline stuff seems off, like germany is also presented with a million death befor barbarossa, but in france and poland together she didnt even lost 100,000 man(excluding wounded casulties).

[@gavinrogers5246]

Actually the numbers are averaged over the entire war instead of in spurts. Notice that European belligerents' numbers keep rolling until the 2nd of September, 1945 even though their war ended on VE Day, May 8, 1945. Also note that the numbers don't jump up after a major battle such as D-Day or Stalingrad.

[@tigerland4328]

​@@gavinrogers5246absolutely. I noticed the British losses should have increased significantly at certain times but didn't.

[@nf7172]

Respectfully where do you get your sources? How did the Philippines lose people before 1942?

[@tomasalvarado2228]

La guerra civil española fue unos años antes murieron por ambos bandos algunos millones de españoles y para......que sirvió

[@fahmad7194]

Shocking 😲

[@titiparisien5915]

Are you serious ? France had already lost a minimum of 210 000 human lives in July 1940.

[@gilARENASbert]

USSR suffered huge losses, but according to this video they lost 1.5m people before 1941 (before starting war with Germany). I don't believe that they lost this amount of troops just invading Poland

[@maximkretsch7134]

Well, during that time they peace-loving Soviet Union invaded not only Poland but also Finland, and annexed Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia and Cernovic, before they were made to taste their own medicine. And I believe they also had issues with the Japanese in Manchuria.

[@thedreamscripter4002]

​​​​@@maximkretsch7134In Mongolia (not Manchuria) Soviets suffered far less than 100k losses. Estonia, Latvia and Lithiania were got through succesful communistic coups in those countries, there were no military action at all there. Parts of Moldavia also were got through diplomatic issues without any warfare. War with Finland started only on 30 November of 1939, and finished on 12 March 1940, so went for three and a half month only (even in video you can see that it would bring far less than 1.5 million losses). Invasion of Poland also went without any big battles and losses, as absolute majority of polish army were on the western front at that moment, and most polish troops on the eastern side prefered to surrender. So in fact, I have not a single clue where authors of that video have taken 1.5 million losses before 1941.

[@maximkretsch7134]

@@thedreamscripter4002 Maybe the continuing purge within the army.

[@thedreamscripter4002]

@@maximkretsch7134 Purge in army happened in 1937-1938, and touched around 15,000-16,000 people, most of which were not executed, but fired from the army with forbiddance to work in military anymore (yes, in reality Stalin's purges were far less drastic than stereotypes and propaganda usually paints them). So no, that also not an issue in that case

[@maximkretsch7134]

@thedreamscripter4002 The purges were quite drastic in terms of military capability, maybe they rebooked some of the additional millions of dead caused by the resulting bad military leadership. Or, since civilians are counted, they took the usual amount of people killed in two years in the Gulag into consideration?

[@nicktaylor7680]

China suffered it own version of holocaust with systematic genocide perpetrated under Japanese rule, most of which has never been acknowledged and the reason why the relationship between Japan and China is so poor.

[@DavidRobins48]

Fantastic presentation

[@ericwillimas8791]

Some of these appear to be the revised numbers and some the official report

[@brianporter9508]

Perhaps those in the USA and UK should reflect on the stats before postiring about how they won WW2. I'm British and the contribution of non-uk Empire forces was truly magnificant.

[@toejahmsammich]

Why? The US did not start it. Was going to stay out of it until Japan did what it did. You reflect on the fact that you would be speaking German had the US not fought.

[@toejahmsammich]

It was also the Brits that got us into WW1.

[@dough9512]

How many millions starved to death in India because Britain took their food and shipped it to England? I forgot. Yes, Churchill was a great man.

[@EveryDayMan808]

Why? They only got in because they were attacked.

[@andym9571]

​@@dough9512That did not happen. That was debunked a long time ago. There was not the shipping to get enough food to Bengal and there certainly was not enough to take it away. Facts are Churchill asked Roosevelt for help with shipping as there was grain in Australia/ Canada but he refused as it was all needed for the war. Churchill still managed to secure enough ships to get nearly a million tons of grain/ barley to Bengal from Canada, Australia and Iraq. Still , sadly not enough. Blame nature and the Japanese for that famine.

[@AAA19999]

Life was even cheaper then, interesting to see how America represents itself regarding WW2 yet it had "relatively" much lower losses than other countries we barely hear about in their WW2 involvement

[@brianfarley4814]

US was involved late.

[@vietnamvet4533]

When you say represents itself you mean the country that won the war and saved everyone else? Yea we did.

[@toejahmsammich]

The US was focused on Japan and Germany. Japan and Germany killed anyone in the way.

[@robertlipka9541]

​@@vietnamvet4533USA did relatively little of the fighting as shown by relative loses. The rest is home grown propaganda.

[@wasgaming7932]

@@robertlipka9541 Such an idiotic take. You do realize these losses include civilian losses right? Since very little fighting took place in the US it would make sense that there overall death toll is low because the US barely had civilian losses.

[@xCosmicJellyfishx]

This graph shows me just how little I really understand about this conflict, which is already admittedly much more than most. I have some serious studying to do...

[@SIgor420]

The other day I watched now docu series about WW2 in color. It's unbelievable what those people went through...

[@MarcoFariello]

Da questo video mi piacerebbe ne fosse tratto un altro che utilizzando, per ogni paese coinvolto, due linee di crescita, di colote diverso, indicasse con una le perdite tra i militari e i paramilitari, e con l'altra le perdite tra civili inermi; la cosa sarebbe assai interessante.

[@alitlweird]

I never realized that each country involved lost such an exact, round number of people. Crazy! 🤯😲

[@sebastiancalderon3273]

Hahaha, numbers are always rounded.

[@MrGetwellsoon]

I was amazed at tiny New Zealand fighting from the beginning of ww2 to the end.

[@LNLBD]

Yeah, they actually killed some people just to make the numbers round, because round numbers are easier to remember.

[@carloszuniga9803]

Biden supposedly got 81,000,000 votes in the last election. Everything is propaganda. But don't worry, we are always around the corner from the next big war, then you'll be able to participate and become part of some bs statistic, done by whoever wins the next one. We are all evil.

[@hotdognonesky3766]

This was very interesting to watch. Now do one that shows the size of the militaries as they grew and shrank throughout the entire deal. That would be even BETTER!

[@joeg4707]

You do it.

[@crouchingwombathiddenquoll5641]

Ghoul.

[@JML6988]

It's been posited that WW2 actually began with the invasion of Manchuria in 1937 rather than Poland in 1939. The numbers of Chinese dead support this notion.

[@Emdee5632]

WW2 might indeed be considered TWO separate wars, the war started by the Japanese in Asia, and the war started by the Germans in Europe.

[@jakubmedrek3719]

It would be nice if you present percentage killed vs general population of a particular country. Best regards.

[@tstephens590]

Couple of points: I remember reading that 40 million people died during WWII. In this graph, China & the USSR alone totaled way more than that. How did the Philippines loose 200,000 killed before the US was even attacked by the Japanese? Doesn’t make sense. The Philippines were a protectorate of the US and were not attacked before Dec 1941. Yet they show 200,000 dead already before that date. Numbers are a little screwy, I think.

[@ThePoetinres]

I read that 70 million died in WWII. The numbers killed and wounded are even greater. WWIII will be 10x or 100x that if the warmongers have their way.

[@PK1999]

I’d say Stalin and Soviet/Russian war tactics are responsible for 50% of human losses on part of the USSR

[@nadacalo9289]

PK And who is responsible for too many victims in Vietnam?Stalin?

[@user-hy6du1jg1z]

Ты там видимо лично сидел и считал от чего кто умер или может ваша Западная пропаганда вам рассказала как было на Восточном фронте?! Может Запад лучше расскажет чем до высадки в Нормандии занималась?!) Высадке которую сделали тогда когда Советская армия уже продвиналась по Европе в сторону Берлина без вашей никчемной помощи!

[@Winterx69]

A nice project. Though the format is misleading. There seems to be a depiction of steady growth across all values, even during periods of no historically recorded military activity taking place. The value for the ROC is similarly flawed, considering the varying political fragmentation within over the period covered. Interesting to look at, altogether, nonetheless.

[@galicjuszpostrzyzynski4041]

These statistics should also show the losses as the percentage of the total country population.

[@tigerland4328]

For the western allies it's as follows UK 🇬🇧 1.0% of population NZ 🇳🇿 0.72% of population AUS 🇦🇺 0.58% of population CAN 🇨🇦 0.38% of population USA 🇺🇸 0.32% of population It would be much higher for continental European and Asian countries due to German and Japanese atrocities and combat of their territories.

[@Dawgator]

We owe a debt of gratitude to the people of the Soviet Union that we will never be able to repay.

[@Jere.M]

Why did finland stop at 4.850k even though it lost 50k people in the winter war??

[@brianporter9508]

It's probably because many of those fighting were not Finnish.

[@juhakuisma924]

​@@brianporter9508Not true. And 50k is wrong too. 28k during the winter war. Total 80k during WW2

[@Jere.M]

@@juhakuisma924 oh thats true just checked from wikipedia

[@alexxxXXXrus]

Because finand was germanys ally. Kindest russian people get them forgive. But sholdnt- for Leningrad Blockade they must pay till today

[@Jere.M]

@@alexxxXXXrus That doesnt mean that they didnt lose 80k people

[@ternyb1391]

Those are some large numbers. The graph should have the percentage of population included to give perspective.

[@TheKeenTribe]

Bring tears to my eyes

[@siok4375]

The next 1 would be beyond horror. Don't be so naive to think it could never happen. The corruption in the highest ranks of global societies is getting worse

[@keyss78]

At this rate, it *will be exponentially worse...

[@davefranklyn7730]

How do the Philippines lose 250000+ before they entered the war on Dec 8, 1941 ????

[@humanspiderdotcom]

because this is fake af lol

[@ZannatulNayem-nh7hh]

Japanese army attacked them

[@davefranklyn7730]

@@ZannatulNayem-nh7hh Not until Dec 1941. The loses show BEFORE then.

[@ZannatulNayem-nh7hh]

@@davefranklyn7730 no Japanese army attacked them In 1937 Nanking massacre

[@davefranklyn7730]

@@ZannatulNayem-nh7hh Dude, maybe there is a language translation problem. Nanking happened in China. I was talking about the Philippines, which, at the time, was a colony of the United States. The OP for the video has Japanese caused Philippine deaths at 250K in 1940. That is a mistake, as they weren’t at war with Japan until December of 1941, when Japan attacked the USA and all her Pacific colonies.

[@roundstone2020]

Could you make that text a little smaller?

[@carlosdelascuevas6140]

Judging by the final numbers, one can say whoever put together these figures was using the wrong source of information.

[@Oompa_Output]

Considering the American impact on the twonseperate wars. Being the primary supplier for both and the primary finisher of Both that it ultimately lost so few... half a million. Huge, but tiny, considering everything else.

[@gavinrogers5246]

We also don't have millions of civilian casualties like most of the other countries either.

[@tigerland4328]

True but suffering 400,000 military deaths over 3 and a half years of combat is by no means small and would be considered high in any other conflict outside of a world war. The same can be said of the UK. Our death toll looks small in comparison to some other countries but when you think 1 in 90 Brits were killed it puts it into perspective.

[@brianclingenpeel5123]

It's not super surprising that the 2 countries with the 2 largest population and the most inept leadership were at the top of this list. The is a perfect example of how focusing on ideology/politics instead of merit and results can have a major effect on loss of life. When you see your people as just more bodies to throw at the enemy and not citizens with rights, what's another quarter million. Or 5 million.

[@Joenerk]

That's one way to look at it. China was not communist until after the war. The Russians were fighting for their existence. We owe them respect at least.

[@brianclingenpeel5123]

@@Joenerk and yes, the Russians were fighting for their existence. But if they would have done so under a democratic government there would be MILLIONS more Soviets that made it through the war. Between the total incompetence and pure malice of the leadership, there were more lives wasted for no reason than can be accurately counted. And I don't see how doing things like actively and willingly starving millions of Ukrainians to death has about to do with "fighting for their existence". As far as respect for the Soviet people. They have propped up these Communist leaders and take overs for almost 150 years. You reap what you sew and they don't seem to have much capability to learn from previous mistakes.

[@taoliu3949]

Um, most of China's casualties were civilians, not military. Japanese committed horrific atrocities everywhere they went, and China took the full brunt of it. At least half of Soviet casualties was actually military, which was partly due to Stalins decision not to ready his troops for war as well as his decision to purge his military right before the German invasion. This resulted in entire armies being encircled by the Germans. That said, both sides did see inporportionate casualties compared to their enemies, but that's due to differences in fire disparity. Both armies had well throughout plans other than to just "throw men at the problem". The "human wave" hypothesis has been debunked for decades.

[@brianclingenpeel5123]

@@taoliu3949 im not sure what you mean "debunked" it's a fact that the Chinese used "human wave". Attacks all the way into Korea. This was not only done because they had a massive population to draw from, but as a psychological weapon. Most of the soldiers in those waves were lucky of they were given a grande. Most had nothing and we're to " aquire" a weapon of the enemy. With this in mind it is no wonder the Chinese suffered the casualties they did. To be quite honest, I find this a weird thing to argue about. History and the statistics say all that needs to be said. It's not really an "opinion" kind of a thing.....

[@taoliu3949]

@@brianclingenpeel5123 "Human wave" attacks are repeated unsupported frontal assaults performed by infantry, which was not the norm for China be it in WWII or Korean War. WWII NRA infantry (which BTW, is the predecessor of the ROCA in Taiwan) was highly regarded by the IJA, Masanobu Tsuji rates them as the best infantry second to the Japanese. Their deficiencies lie with their lack of heavy equipment including artillery, but their infantry were experienced fighters. Chinese troops had been fighting a series of civil wars for decades and had no shortage of veterans. Likewise, the Korean War PVA also had no shortage of veterans and conducted night infiltration tactics to encircle UN forces. The US Army green book describes the PVA as "skilled enemy light infantry troops", "well-trained disciplined fire fighters," "particularly adept at night fighting", and "were masters of the art of camouflage."

[@talifolkins6302]

It shows the Soviet Union taking lots of casualties in 1940, even though the Winter War with Finland lasted only until March. Then in June 1941 you'd think there'd be an enormous spike in Soviet casualties with Barbarossa but this doesn't seem to show it.

[@MrStropparo]

What music is this

[@michaeljoby5244]

2 million more Indians died due to starvation because of British

[@4115James]

😅😅😅😅

[@ChineseChicken1]

Maybe Indians should have done something about it 🤔

[@PvtPooter]

Its crazy that people forget how many Chinese died foghting the Japanese.

[@samzhao638]

This fact is insane.😢

[@jojobuenaflor3568]

Philippines lost more than a million people, including some relatives of mine to a war we didn't want.

[@kbrewski1]

I don't know where these numbers come from, but the Chinese numbers are inaccurate. Those aren't likely all WWII related, they are probably mixing in civilians killed by Mao seperate and apart from the War. The Japanese invaded and ruled Manchuria, but I highly doubt that 20+ million died from the Japanese invasion.

[@jonncockrell3606]

Blame it on the commies!

[@mahmud976]

Вечная память Советским героям!

[@Brit_Toolmaker]

What the Nazi ruSSian ones that started WW2 with Germany when they both attacked and invaded Poland Sept 39

[@mariashevyrova3730]

@@Brit_Toolmaker they invaded at least 6 more countries in 1939. People in Russia does not want to know that.

[@mariashevyrova3730]

Если бы не поддержка Сталиным Гитлера этих жертв бы не было… ты- идиот. Они сами развязали войну сами же закончили

[@Brit_Toolmaker]

@@mariashevyrova3730 indeed they did, they also shelled their own small border town called Mainila as a pre-text for starting a war with Finland, their shame knows no limits en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila

[@sasha-9312]

ruzzian started that war, don't play victim here

[@njw5869]

I wonder what a graph would look like if you separated the military and civilian casualties .

[@robertnussberger6449]

When you think of ww2 deaths you never think if china Who were they fighting ?

[@Gledge9]

Back then, China was Manchuria and had been at war and occupied by Japan since 1935. So it's not really a part of what we think of being WW II . WW II was really considered to include the European, Pacific and African theatres of war. The Pacific theater included Asian theatres where Japan was already occupying.

[@DuMaMeMay]

Watching the movie Ip Man really educated me in how the chinese had to live while under the rule of Japanese Imperialism. It was brutal.

[@midlifebiker7424]

Poland copped it from Russia and Germany. Its made them stronger today, strong borders and no muslims... Salute....

[@socman3988]

Greece lost almost 10% of its population by the end of WW2 😢! Just staggering! 😳

[@steveatlas3492]

The goats will be happy.

[@socman3988]

@@steveatlas3492 I’m not sure what that even means?

[@GaryHField]

This is one of the main reasons why the population of Muslim counttries is in an upward trajectory compared to these countries, who are now mostly in a downward trajectory. It's because Muslims largely didn't suffer from the horrors of WW2, while a lot of these countries have sacrificed millions of lives.

[@ge2623]

You forgot Upper Volta. 4.

[@erichansen3641]

I would also like to see the countries with the most non-human losses in WWII, broken down by species.

[@toejahmsammich]

I bet you are vegan so let me fill you in. Wars kill, that is all it does and while you wonder how many rabbits died think about this. Every year 7.9 billion animals die in the planting of fields. Think about it, your food kills 7.9 billion animals. Find something else qorth worrying about.

[@phoenixarizona472]

Does that include the slaughtering of pigs for bacon breakfeast?

[@toejahmsammich]

@@phoenixarizona472 They also get pork chops, ribs, roasts, shoulders, hams and lots a sausage. Not just bacon..

[@erichansen3641]

@@phoenixarizona472 pigs? Aren't they animals?

[@erichansen3641]

@@toejahmsammich pigs? Aren't they considered animals and not non-human species?

[@slamacful]

How could the USSR loose 2.6 million people before joining the WWII in 22/06/1941?

[@user-gf4gg8de5u]

We've got talent...

[@chetarmlin1196]

That's a great question. Flawed graph.

[@4115James]

This is a fake list created by George Solo 😅😅😅😅

[@user-rq2lw5hw8b]

The losses of all are shown evenly, without strict reference to years.From the beginning of the war to the end.If you had paid attention, then even after 09.05.1945, the rate of losses in the USSR in the video did not fall.Just adjusted to the desired figure

[@Maxntp]

They invaded Poland at the same time as Germany and then invaded Finland during winter 39/40

[@shibasama4000]

Mind boggling 😦

[@Chris.Davis.2]

It's unbelievable what one madman can start. Wake up, America.

[@user-wm6ou6to7m]

Впереди воскресение на земле Иоанна 5:28,29.Деяния 24:15.

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

Amen! Jesus is LORD and Savior of the universe.

[@user-wm6ou6to7m]

@@suzannakoizumi8605 1Коринфянам 15:24--28!

[@Asanata]

In USA was the same, about 400 000, loss as my Kazakhstan, but they was 133 mln, and Kazakhstan 5 мln. Thats why they don't know what is war.

[@chetarmlin1196]

Who doesn't know what war is?

[@Asanata]

@@chetarmlin1196 , amerikans, of cose.

[@chetarmlin1196]

@@Asanata You're saying Americans don't know what because of WW2 in 1941? 😆🤣 Did you fight in that war? Were you even alive then? How is this relevant? Americans don't know war. 😆😆 They start like half of them. And have to travel halfway around the world to do so.

[@Asanata]

@@chetarmlin1196 , first read from the bigining, second analise it.

[@truckercowboyed2638]

​@@Asanatamaybe you should learn how to spell....

[@timoterava7108]

At least the numbers for Finlans are totally wrong.

[@dosrios9517]

Should also show as a % of population to indicate the impact to that country..

[@user-gf4gg8de5u]

Russian slogan: We can do this once more!

[@user-rq2lw5hw8b]

Глупый провокатор..этот слоган написал советский солдат на Рейхстаге,в том смысле,что надо будет,снова в Берлин придём.

[@johnbai4715]

​@@user-rq2lw5hw8bThe man in the TV teaches them to hate Russia.

[@ChineseChicken1]

Meanwhile Ukraine is a pile of rubble 💪

[@Yakiv14]

Ukraine lost 10 mln (as a republic of Soviet union) - 5 mln of soldiers and 5 mln of civilians, it was 1 fourth of all population of Ukraine and the same fourth of population lost Belarus.

[@waldred3537]

Some people know that, germany wanted to colonized east europe, place for 100 mln germans settlers, but germans were outplay by Brits, germans and russians just lost their potential because of killing each other. Problem with russia is they think they should led slavic nations, but until we wont unite as equals we will be just tooks in global games. Germans will use Ukrainians against Polish people, Uk will use Polish people to fight with germans.

[@andremacko5408]

Ukraine's losses were disproportionately high compared to the rest of the Soviet Union yet Ukraine is not represented at WWII commemorations yet Russia is. Quite the injustice.

[@digitalmojave]

I've seen numbers for the USSR that approach 50 million and for China that approach 80, when you factor in starvation due to war exhaustion.

[@Hacksaw37]

Horrible to see new names added to the list in the tens of thousands and countries moving up is a sign of a new battle.😢😢

[@malanese7431]

Compare to population and look that Poland loses was really tragical. And after war next 50 years under comunismus boots…. Now EU want to change mentality of this proud people.

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

God bless Poland where Jesus is King!

[@laptopwalley]

Why Chinese Died More Than Japan Or Germany???

[@jefftodd621]

The Japs had been killing them from the early 30s. When WW2 started depends on your nationality; it was a series of disparate conflicts which all joined up into one big conflagration.

[@HenriBourjade]

Japan invaded China and did massive killing.

[@tiefensucht]

communism. humans are just numbers.

[@brck888]

The Japanese massacred civilians

[@harshadbrown2312]

And china was massively underdeveloped. Their military basically was this: one guy shares his rifle with like 5 guys

[@irenejohansen1370]

I had no idea.

[@4got102c]

Wow..staggering bar graph. This was depressing but useful and informative.