What Country Surrendered the Most during WW2? (Allied POWs in Europe)

Number of Allied prisoners of war held captive in Europe by Germans or Italians.
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EDIT ⬇️ South Africa 🇿🇦 14,247 Netherlands 🇳🇱 8,000+ Total British Empire 🇬🇧 >214,000 Support HistoryLegends ► Patreon ✔ www.patreon.com/thehistorylegends ► PayPal ✔ www.paypal.me/historylegends ► INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/historylegends2/ ► TIKTOK: www.tiktok.com/@thehistorylegends?lang=en

[@mna7308]

Russia fought fascism, became communist lost due to communist policy now uses both capitalism and socialism equally

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

This is actually underreported. US surrendered MANY more troops than 94K. In only one battle they surrendered 100,000 Americans (Fall of Philippines)

[@krzysztofciesla5165]

Beying captured isnt capitulating, Polish soldiers were without any kind of defense when they were captured.

[@herv7539]

@@user-pn3im5sm7k america was also two years late to WW1 and WW2 so number would’ve been higher.

[@LiberianChimp]

@@user-pn3im5sm7k this video is just on Europe

[@albertoamoruso7711]

A more accurate rank would be about number of POW as % of their army

[@ivanbarbancon8750]

And also in how much time.. I mean, France lost battle of France very fast, so ofc majority of army surrendered very fast due to orders. We can’t compare to other countries which did the entire war

[@bjek343]

Denmark 99% Always on top 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

[@GeraltofRivia22]

It would be more accurate if he included South Africa. Over 10k were captured at Tobruk alone.

[@historylegends]

@@GeraltofRivia22 let me add an edit

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@historylegends thanks, can always count on you.

[@n2201]

The title should be "What country has the most PoW during WWII. the word surrendered does not seem right.

[@26adex]

Yes that's disrespectful. Often in countries like Greece or Poland it was because of allies failing in the beginning of war, and most surrendered because they literally got no ammo left to fight while most soldiers in units fought to death before using all of their ammunition, and you can't fight with spoons against tanks, also most of pow in occupied Poland got killed or sent to labour (death) camps. That's not surrendering, that's fighting to the point it's impossible no more. Similar with soviets (after 1942)

[@niksarass]

@@26adex You are disrespectful of allies so why you complain?

[@jakub3830]

​@@26adex I do love myself some orange juice

[@Borredom]

Yeah because Poland soldiers were captured but Poland never surrendered

[@niksarass]

@@Borredom Yes Poland surrendered. Polish Resistants surrendered during the Warsaw uprising contrary to Tito partisans and French resistants. Later tgere government surrendered to Stalin and Warsaw pact after that. Why you try to rewrite history ?

[@tomben6180]

My great grandfather fought in the British Army and spent the last 12 months of the war in a POW camp in Germany… as they were losing the war, so you can imagine how terrible the conditions were and how badly they were treated. He was thought to have been killed and my great grandmother received a telegram to say he’d been killed in battle… only for him to show up in 1945. He was award the MC (Britain’s 2nd highest medal behind the VC). He was a great man and stunningly brave.

[@Hian482]

My great grandfather is german and he also served in world war :)

[@tomben6180]

@@Hian482 Well as long as he was Wehrmacht and not in the SS or SA, then good.

[@Star_4321]

⁠@@tomben6180if the reason why you are saying that because of h#tler. It is not a very good answer because the soldiers that fought for n@zi were actually forced to join the army.

[@tomben6180]

@@Star_4321 many of them were and that’s why I said that, but the SA and SS can rot in hell.

[@Tusk-ruk]

A similar thing happened in my family. My grandfather fought in 39-40 in the French mountain troops (chasseurs alpins), he was detained for 4 years in a PoW camp in Poland, and came back months after being declared deceased to a mother mad with grief.

[@KanqaOfficial]

I’m just surprised Belgium has that much manpower 😂

[@axelbrackeniers5488]

Belgium had 500K soldiers at the start of World War 2, conscription and mandatory army service was a thing in that time. The mandatory military service only ended in the 2000s. Right now Belgium only has 25K military service personnel

[@Ricky_the_Georgian]

We know Japan won't make the list

[@benncatlover]

NO SURRENDER

[@ChrisElitePro]

Tenoheika BANZAI!!!

[@freebolt5913]

Russians flee the country, before the fighting starts.

[@rainbows5232]

yeah cuz its an allies list as it been said

[@nathandei1674]

There were Japanese POWs (surprising lol) but extremely small amount

[@slavizmo]

My great grandfather was captured in southern Serbia in '41 he was artillery. He was transported to Stalag II where he stayed untill 1945. He said that german soldiers treated them fairly but complained that Hungarians treated them badly when they were transported to the POW camp.

[@gnehsaijuil]

Germans only treated badly to Russians, generally.

[@schutzanzug4518]

The Hungarians treated them poorly, because Serbia was the equivalent to Germany’s Poland, or Jews, they were in some way responsible for their defeat of their empire in WW1.

[@ivan200804]

Hungarians were animals in Ukraine SSR.

[@nikolailic8664]

Hey, my great grandfather was also captured as a part of artillery unit and spent time in Stalag 2 until 1945. I still have some of his camp documents and belogings

[@NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

​@@nikolailic8664wow! your two Grandfathers may very well have known one another during their imprisonment!!! that would be amazing!

[@steffens260]

“Where is China?” … 👀-Japan sweating when asked where their POWs are-

[@mgway4661]

This list was about Europe

[@steffens260]

@@mgway4661 this comment was about Japan

[@purple-headedyogurtslinger2683]

I commented about this but the survival rate of Chinese POWs was ~0.0112%. They released 56 Chinese POWs after the war.

[@adraburnes1549]

Japan- “PO… What now’s?”

[@HallingtonA]

@@mgway4661ah yes Australia in Europe, IT SAID WW2 it did not specify continent

[@DirtySerb]

My grandfather was in the Yugoslavian army and his unit fought the Germans until they ran out of ammo. He was wounded by a potato masher grenade which severely damaged his leg. What was left of his unit ended up being captured and taken to a concentration camp. They were later rescued by British Commandos that liberated the camp. RIP Deda Elija

[@thegreekguy1124]

In Greece it was a weird situation. When the Germans attacked and took the country those soldiers were all surrounded in Northern Epirus. They were captured in theory but in reality the nazis relished them all right after capture when Greece fell. The vast majority those soldiers either went to fight in North Africa or made/join a resistance organization (ELLAS/EDES/EKKA/organization X etc)

[@Alex-pj8nz]

Probably wants to go attack the USSR soon and doesn’t want the distraction.

[@gregorgerzson1767]

So it was a fatal mistake and should have imprison those bastards

[@thegreekguy1124]

@@gregorgerzson1767 Bastards?It seems we have a nazi among us?But even of you are you'd know that Hitler had to make a bet. He didn't have time to fight all those Greeks at this point. Much less had managed to slow him down more than the entire Yugoslavian army did

[@gregorgerzson1767]

@@thegreekguy1124 Yes, bastards. They speard their life, let them go, and for thx they contunie killing germans, and help the red plague to occupie eastern-europe. Nothing worse than communism, especially when its Stalin or Mao.

[@thegreekguy1124]

@@gregorgerzson1767Those soldiers literally faught a civil war against the communists,actually 2 could say it was 2 cause we were fighting the communists even before the Germans were kicked out of Greece. And of course they continued killing Germans,they were fighting for their country! Those nazi dogs,the real bastards along with their little bitch,the Italians,killed nearly a million Greek civilians,that's why everyone was fighting them. And wdym spared their life?They would be prisoners of war,not dead and they didn't do it just cause they were good people,Greece didn't surrender unconditionally,freeing the soldiers was a term. The Germans actually wanted to let them keep their weapons,without bullets cause they had respect for the people who actually faught them and did so like lions. But then the hurt little Italians stepped in

[@dzejsonstejtum9998]

my maternal grandfather was captured in april 1941 as a soldier of royal yugoslav army. he was taken to germany and spent entire war working on a farm for a german peasant whose sons were mobilised and sent to the eastern front. he walked back home and finally returned in october 1945.

[@dzejsonstejtum9998]

@@Lizgija nije ti istorija jača strana rođače, izuči kako se zvala vojska kraljevine jugoslavije pa onda prosipaj sive mrve

[@afghaaj]

@@Lizgija Није, био је војник војске Краљевине Југославије, четници су настали после пада државе

[@pozdrav423]

@@Lizgija 😂

[@comradedawid5292]

And then there is some discord moderators that think walking outside is too hard

[@DelijeSerbia]

​@@afghaajto nije bas tačno. Četnici su postojali pre pada države. Tačnije postojali su i pre nastanka Jugoslavije. Velika je zabluda da su cetnici nastali tokom drugog svetskog rata. Recimo Kosta Pecanac je bio vodja cetnickog veteranskog udruzenja pre rata i onda je ukaljao svoje ime stavivsi svoje cetnike pod nemacku kontrolu.

[@oliverhenri3477]

"Surrendered" isn't the same as "captured". There is a difference.

[@JohnSmith-ex9mv]

Yeah, that's why Italy isn't in the list.

[@loken3205]

​@@JohnSmith-ex9mvwell also this is a list of allied nations

[@yernan7547]

Yeah that's why France is only 1.8m 😂😂😂😂

[@catoonz]

USSR: *Puts a lot of effort and sacrifice to save the world* 2023: *Afraid to use actual USSR flag in shorts*

[@Jepe4146]

Well they started whole war with germans when they invaded Poland. Why we should respect their collabiration with nazis?

[@CoolEdo]

There's a USSR flag emoji?

[@playforyou1146]

But of course,USSR was as cruel as Nazi germany

[@RMD94]

​@@playforyou1146that's utter nonsense

[@morvran9074]

​@@RMD94Nah he is right

[@josefstalin4418]

The fact that over half of all soviet soldiers captured were killed is horrible

[@paulurban2472]

The most involved had to pay the price

[@gfarrell80]

Yeah, going over that real quick at the end felt a little weird. There was a very special nature to the war on the Eastern Front.

[@CEO_Of_Racism-fk3qv]

Barbarian Nazis

[@MusicismoreImportant]

Which year

[@Iran_mapper]

No source

[@tomk3732]

My grandfather was captured in 1939. Escaped from the farm. Was captured by Soviets, escaped again. By 1942 was in AK. Survived the war.

[@ku8a118]

Cześć i chwała bohaterom. Kuzyn mojej babci byl w dywizjonie 302.Zabiil paru bandytów. Stanisław Łapka

[@Briselance]

AK? What do you mean, please?

[@ku8a118]

@@Briselance armia krajowA home ary

[@adolfmaotsestalin8753]

​​@@Briselance Auschwitz Kommando.

[@rotmistrzdavid_3250]

​@@Briselance Armia Krajowa (Home army)

[@The_Toaster]

NO ONE SURRENDER, START THE RESISTANCE

[@Mori_UA]

Capture doesn't always mean surrender

[@controllerplayer2091]

Yugoslavia isn’t that shocking… we had one of the strongest resistance movements.

[@user-zv8qd4km1k]

My great grand father was captured and then executed by the Germans he had many medals for his brave acts in the greco-italian war 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🙏🙏

[@markus717]

remind me, what is the "greco-Italian war"?

[@Vain-nf3il]

@@markus717 the war that involved Greece with British support against Italy it basically apart of the Balkans campaign it was a year of fighting and the Italian had to be bailed out by germany

[@nikostheofanidis9970]

Μήπως ήταν αξιωματικός ο παππούς σου; η κάτι άλλο ανώτερο; γιατί τους στρατιώτες δεν τους σκότωναν, επειδή πολέμησαν γενεά ο Χίτλερ είχε πει να μην εκτελεστούν, αλλά τον αξιωματικό από το οχυρό ρουπελ τον εκτέλεσαν ενώ τους απλούς φαντάρους τους "υποδέχτηκαν" με στρατιωτικό χαιρετισμό. Αλλά αυτό για τους γενεους στρατιώτες το είχε πει ο Χίτλερ μόνο για τους Έλληνες, γιατί μετά την νίκη μας έναντι των Ιταλών καταφέραμε να αντισταθούμε για λίγο και στους Γερμανούς, κάτι τέτοια είχε πει

[@geokeo3263]

​@@Vain-nf3il """"British support """" you can hardly call it that

[@cazwalt9013]

​@@Vain-nf3il the British didn't support Greece against Italy only against Germany

[@fanofcodd]

My grand grand father was a french soldier captured just when the Germans attacked. The army was so disorganized and the sabotage so strong (thanks to commies in arm industry) that they got artillery shells that didn't explode. He was sent to a farm in Germany and was treated well , when the war ended he went back to France , he then returned to Germany for Holliday's to visit them and the family he was with during the war also came to visit our family here

[@slash4086]

That doesn't answer the question of who surrendered the most, only how many troops surrendered from each country.

[@afghaaj]

Thank you for acknowledging the fact of how much POWs Yugoslavia had. It was true that mainly Serbs were held as POWs as Croats and Muslims were given opportunity to join the ranks of Ustashe, the army of the newly formed Croatian puppet state. Of course, there were some of the very bright examples of Muslims (Bosniaks) or Slovenes who choosed to stay in captivity with their brothers in arms instead of siding with the fascists. (One of the the most known examples was of father of the famous late Serbian military analyst Miroslav Lazanski, who was a Slovene).

[@afghaaj]

@Danny Al I'm not sure of which battle and army you are referring to? In which army served your ancestor?

[@brumaki]

​@@afghaaj Israeli Defense Force

[@mnplastic1]

Are you talking about the same brothers in arms, who committed genocide in 1990s in Bosnia?

[@nickv.5748]

You are right, I lost 7 close relatives who fought against naci Germans !

[@CODELIRIOUS-sy8xz]

​@@mnplastic1 No Mercy for muhammedcells

[@foxtrothermite6499]

"Allied POWs held by the Germans and Italians" Me: What about the POWs held by the Japanese? Japanese: POWs? What are POWs?

[@hearmeout9138]

Japanese: “We marched several thousand prisoners to the POW camp but none made it.”

[@KillMe-jt8uz]

My great grandfather was one of the lucky ones to survive

[@benediktfreischlad1258]

​@@KillMe-jt8uz top three worst counties to fall pow to: Japan, the Soviets and Germany

[@gururu1286]

The Japanese does take some pow but they starved all of them .

[@hearmeout9138]

@@gururu1286 … or sent them to Unit 731 to be used a lab rat.

[@camrynhunter6969]

Good to hear you're teaching true knowledge of our recent wars.

[@DaFrenchPhoenix]

My great grandfather fought for France during the battle of France in 1940 he was captured pretty quick during the withdraw when France surrendered he was send back to my family they saw horrible things during the occupation they were hiding a Jewish family in they're cave it was terrifying my grandma told me that she saw a firing squad of a whole family from toddler to grandparents

[@DavidMarkovic646]

In yugoslavia most soldiers were caprured and send to camps the worst of them was JASENOVAC. Great video buddy love youre videos! Support from serbia! Keep making videos!

[@TotilaTheGoth]

No. The soldiers were captured during the invasion and capitulation. And were sent to Germany. Some of the Serbian Chetniks and Partisans who were captured during the war were sent to Jasenovac by the Croats. However, some who were captured by the Germans could also be sent to Germany, like Jezdimir Dangić was.

[@DavidMarkovic646]

@@TotilaTheGoth ay never said that thay didn't get captured by invasion and capitulasion off yugoslavia in ww2. So what did ay get wrong if you dont mind me asking???

[@TotilaTheGoth]

@@DavidMarkovic646 You capitalized Jasenovac whose primary victims were Serb civilians not POW's. From your comment it can be implied that Jasenovac was meant for POW's, and not the general extermination of the Serbs regardless of status.

[@DavidMarkovic646]

@@TotilaTheGoth aha okay👍

[@felmaiden1094]

​@@jopac_ lol look at this idiot. Get a life dude. Fucking fachist dog

[@williamsauthier6746]

Hey I just wanted to say that as a people who speak French your french was perfect

[@unbonfrancophone1539]

il est canadien-français

[@geromeblara]

​@@unbonfrancophone1539je pensais qu'il était français

[@Farm-b3lAA]

@@geromeblaraoui Mais je Pense que C’est canadien Français

[@Afghanistanisinvincible]

Bro really said he likes country’s by how many soilders serenaded in ww2😢😢😢😢

[@DA-DOGGO]

i literly hit the griddy when i hear france on number two then my computer exploded when i hear soviet union in spot one

[@mehae_1991]

Thailand: as an axis I never surrender because I never lost

[@williamboulay4671]

Pov: koh chang

[@TheGirard62]

really ? then that's mean you won... right ? Thailand: *suspicious silence*

[@herrakaarme]

@@TheGirard62 There are many ways to end a war. Finland spent half of the WW2 on the Axis side, but didn't surrender or get occupied. Cease fire and peace treaty were signed to end the hostilities.

[@TheGirard62]

@@herrakaarme yeah and ? Does that make my joke less funny ?

[@herrakaarme]

@@TheGirard62 No?

[@chaos_kitsune5455]

Note : POW doesn't mean somebody surrendered, also could be knocked out of battle by being wounded and then captured , or straight up caught and strangled, so POW count really means shit about being a coward or anything cowardish like.

[@kilowhiskey7973]

I need to see this equated different. I want to see a % for each force due to their size.

[@recondolaidy-slayer8468]

My grandfather was a POW during World War II and was rescued by a tank driving through a wall if I remember correctly the Germans had already left

[@tupacshakur9847]

The Russians deserve so much respect.

[@engineerenginering8633]

as so do the other allies. amd besides the russia right now are using the argumnet "we fought the nazis" for everything to get thier way

[@Xyrozen]

@@engineerenginering8633well, the west dehumanized Russian people so badly rn, just like in 1940s.

[@user-wc5mg5uu9n]

@@engineerenginering8633 The Western allies got chummy with the nazis shortly after the war ended.

[@engineerenginering8633]

@@Xyrozen it didnt tho

[@engineerenginering8633]

@@user-wc5mg5uu9n just like the soviet union

[@jameskerridge5034]

My Grand Dad was in Royal artillery For British he was capture in France some time before Dunkirk (1939) he was sent to a work camp, only story I got told from my father is one night my grand dad and his friend escape from the camp and hid in a wine cellular close by and got wasted on the wine before the german found them and capute them again

[@TaboritskyChlenJopaSiska]

При этом советский союз потерял 27 миллионов солдат💀

[@Vadim_Ibragimov]

Не только солдат. 27 млн - это общие потери, включая гражданских. Коих в этой цифре больше половины

[@footlong1976]

Which country surrendered most.....immediately puts two countries together

[@MrKilekico]

Number 4. Coats and Bosnians were allies with Germany so please delete this nonsense

[@nickv.5748]

Exactly !

[@andreledoux7143]

Tito was a Croat. Oy bre

[@OK-yy6qz]

Depends on what period of the war you're talking about

[@borismaric130]

@@andreledoux7143 but those prisoners were local Nazis

[@N00BY40]

To defend France, when the french government gave up even though we still wanted to fight, the peace treaty required every french soldiers to surrender and be held captive by the germans

[@UN-KN0WN.-]

French forces participated to very important battles like Dunkirk where the French soldiers basically saved a big part of the british army. There are also FFI and FFL which fought during all the war. France fought well during ww2, but the idea of surrending France came later whith the american "French bashing"

[@cpj93070]

@@UN-KN0WN.- What is it with you French and keep mentioning Dunkirk all you do it moan at the British.

[@hellheaven-dy2bz]

Treatment for a prisoner of war does not matter as long as they live

[@BurialDream]

Funny thing is that Stalingrad being on under the siege for years , some houses last longer then entire europe and allies.

[@georgios_5342]

Greece and Yugoslavia never surrendered. The thing is that, when Germany attacked Yugoslavia, and later Greece, they went through their only unprotected borders. The Yugoslav and Greek armies were busy holding of the Italians in Albania and the Bulgarians. This is why the Germans just stormed through with Panzers and trucks, while the Greeks and Yugoslavians had mules and horses. When Greece fell, most of their army of 350.000 men was still fighting, the majority in Northern Epirus, modern day southern Albania, and the rest in the border with Bulgaria. Hitler himself recognized the valiance and spirit of the Greek people, who fought "with undying determination for their fatherland, and despite the mistakes of their government never gave up, until all resistance was futile and senseless". Hitler had a vague respect and admiration for ancient cultures like the Romans or the Greeks, because he believed that pagan religions were the "true" roots of Europe, and not Christianity, which he considered a "Jewish plot to make the Europeans weak". This is the reason why all Greek soldiers were disarmed and released. Shortly after however, Hitler's crimes in the Balkans began, and most of these people were out in the mountains fighting again.

[@fabianeweil192]

That is all true but it doesn’t change the fact that their armies, in the face of impossible odds, eventually surrendered. In this context there is no shame admitting that ;)

[@matthewsmith5374]

⁠​⁠@@fabianeweil192stupid ignorant comment. Their government surrendered. The Greek partisans NEVER surrendered, they controlled most of the country outside of the cities, inflicted twice the amount of war casualties than they suffered all while being outnumbered almost 4 to 1. They were one of the most effective resistance groups during the war

[@revolutionariesoffreedom2374]

He view Christianity as Jewish plot but he also saw himself as a Germanic crusader ironically… but crusaders were technically Christians… it’s very confusing what his brain was thinking.

[@radomirratkovic9014]

​@@revolutionariesoffreedom2374😂😂😂😂

[@samonekide4051]

Almost every relative of my grandma (dad's mother) was killed in WWII mostly by Ustashas and Germans in less number. Only her sister, her younger brother and she survived. In 1945, she was 4 years old, her sister 2 years old and brother was toddler. She lived in one village not far from Novi Grad, which was in that-time Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

[@L_L_______]

France at the start of the war had 3.1 million soldiers and 1.8 of them were captured and imprisoned 😮

[@ivanstefancic8938]

Why is Yugoslavia shocking? If you didn't join the Nazi regime you were considered partizan terrorists and shipped off or shot. My grandfather was is a "work camp" and survived. In 2006 he received a letter from Siemens electronics saying that they were going to pay him compensation.

[@zohzu]

Siemens was founded in 1847. Maby it belonged to them but that work camp did not evolve into Siemens 😅

[@radomirratkovic9014]

​@@zohzumost of the German industry used slave labour by late 1943/44

[@zohzu]

@@radomirratkovic9014 my mistake I probably miss understood the comment.

[@zohzu]

@@radomirratkovic9014 oh he probably changed/corrected the original comment so my comment does not make any sense anymore.

[@radomirratkovic9014]

@@zohzu Everything is possible in this world

[@marcusaetius9309]

No big surprise as they seem to be approx. proportional to their individual involvement.

[@woodstock6792]

This was kind-of expected. Love the lists.

[@12123188]

Why would nr.4 shock you? The fiercest battles were fought over there and a high percentage of people lost their lives.

[@jisatsushitai]

I know these are for the Allies countries, but I thought it would be cool to share some history there. My great-grandfather was a German soldier from Luftwaffe and it seems he was captured when he was in the Eastern front against the Soviet Union. He flew a bomber called Stuka. He wanted to become a fighter pilot, but since he couldn't and really wanted to be in the airforce, he decided to go with the bomber squad. I think he might have passed for some bad situations in USSR, because he got crazy there and mentally disabled. I don't know if it was due to the war ot the soviet POWs treatment, but he ended up completely out of himself.

[@nihilisticbarbie]

Are you Portuguese? That’s fascinating, to also have a German great grandfather

[@jisatsushitai]

@@nihilisticbarbie Yes, I'm Portuguese, but part of my family is German.

[@panicjova31210pozega]

Any normal person would be amazed to know what his fellow soldiers did during the war... from so much killing (the numbers are huge), looting and raping, to human experiments, making soap from human fat and gas chambers that the army he fought for rules and that's how a large number of civilians were dealt with. Terrible. Anyone would lose their mind just thinking about all those crimes of their comrades - which they had to learn about in the camps if they didn't know about it all during the war. And if he participated in similar things or bombed civilians - how could a man not go crazy if he did that... Two of my great-grandfathers were killed in battles with the German army, and two ended up in camps and survived. It never happened again!

[@hiredmurderer6228]

Most possibly out of 5.7 million prisoners, 1 million max must be combatants

[@kostadinnikolovski5975]

The soviet union had a total army of 20 mil during ww2

[@ivansmirnov7342]

Yeah. Out of 27 millions lost by USSR in this conflict, only 8 millions were soldiers.

[@michaelmuller9385]

@@ivansmirnov7342 yes, said the great historic Soviet Commission after the war. Because they didnt want to show the real losses. It is only estimated.

[@ivansmirnov7342]

@@michaelmuller9385 if you have different numbers then post them here with a source. And these losses ARE horrendous. N@zis lost 6 millions on the Eastern front as far as I know. So if the Soviets wanted to lie they’d just say they lost a comparable number of soldiers. Not 2 millions more.

[@michaelmuller9385]

@@ivansmirnov7342 german army lost 3,5 mio in general in combat, about 4,5 soldiers died, about 1 mio as pow. Soviet army it is said lost about 11 mio soldiers dead. But nobodys knows ecactly, because they didnt have an accurate counting system, only estimates. And of course the soviets lied, the hat this historical commission and they even destroyed a lot of soviet graveyards. But believe want you want, doesnt matter to anybody, it is ok and 80 years over

[@irkenempire2849]

I'm so proud of our Serbs who didn't bow to these bloodlust psychopaths 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

[@Euroscot9155]

This doesnt mean sh!t, its all situational with so many factors..ie population size and troop placement, ongoing actions, air support, enemy numbers, logistics, Brits hemmed in at Dunkirk, Poles getting slapped by both the nazis and the Soviets at the same time.... this is just random stats.

[@hajime2k]

UK took the biggest L in Malaya and Singapore. They surrendered after constantly losing to the 3x smaller Japanese forces. 100k men surrendered to a Japanese force numbering around 30k who themselves were low on munitions and supplies.

[@achillesrodriguezxx3958]

General Percival was an incompetent officer who got dominated by Yamashita the tiger of malaya in an era when the white man is supposed to be superior. Heard he never held a combat command ever again and was delegated to desk jobs in the UK

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@achillesrodriguezxx3958 dude should've been thrown in jail for gross incompetence.

[@greg_4201]

I mean.... you say the Japanese were low on munitions and supplies, but the British forces there didn't even have any heavy weapons to shoot ammunition out of lol

[@hajime2k]

@@greg_4201 If the British refused to surrender Singapore city, the Japanese wouldn't have enough munitions and supplies to fight door-to-door for it. Not to mention the British still had a 3 or 4 to 1 advantage in manpower.

[@greg_4201]

@@hajime2k cool story 🤷🏻‍♂️ unfortunately the Japanese didn't advance waving flags displaying their ammunition count...

[@KukurydzaPL400]

🇵🇱 when you have 3 fucking fronts

[@Sc4rl3ttttt]

I can feel it

[@geokeo3263]

only 2? lol

[@KukurydzaPL400]

@@geokeo3263 3 czechoslovakia was also there and its not "only because I bet ur country had 1

[@AnonymCzZ]

@@KukurydzaPL400 Czechoslovakia did not exist during WW2. You know that, right?

[@KukurydzaPL400]

@@AnonymCzZ german czechoslovakia

[@ronleys8612]

The Belgium army was defeated in three weeks so the Army had no change to win the campaign

[@doormat2539]

The ball carrier moved things really hurts. We all wanted that double juke to be back in some way obviously not as op at ncaa 14 but a more crisp double juke woulda been fire

[@nickcoryell2516]

Lol you think 1 would be France but the war in Eastern Europe was on such a larger scale everything multiplied

[@Yellow-kp9gs]

Yeah true. And to be fair the french get unfairly made fun of because of the fall of France. The German strategy was just very unpredictable.

[@Losowy]

​@@Yellow-kp9gs completely like germans didn't do the same thing they did during WW1

[@davidprice7162]

Largest land campaign in history, with more Soviets dying in a month than the west lost over 6 years. There's a reason WW2 is such an engrained past of Russian culture, it killed more than the entire population of Australia today.

[@Daniel-rh7kh]

The Eastern Front in WW2 and WW1 to a certain degree was complete hell

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@Yellow-kp9gs the French could still easily have stopped the Germans, they just had incredibly bad leadership.

[@The3rdAyin]

Considering the main event of the war was happening between USSR and Germany, both of these sides lost and surrendered the most to each other.

[@m3c4nyku43]

​@Danny Al Having your race almost extinct sure is a win, right?

[@m3c4nyku43]

@Danny Al Wow so you're an antisemite, who would've thought. And I wasn't talking about yts being extinct, I was talking about what the natsees did to jews in WW2, which you call that a "win" for jews. Natsees always lose. One of Russia's goal in Ukraine is to denatseefy Ukraine. Russia saved the world from natseeism once and they will do it again. You should go to Ukraine so you can be sent on a one way trip to Bandera. Plus I bet your natsee @ss wants both the jews and palestinians/arabs to be exterminated.

[@YouSpewed]

@Daniwoodzzwho is “your people” and why?

[@andreledoux7143]

@@YouSpewed jews, by portraing themselves as the main victim of that war, they got their country and moral infalibility no mater how heinously they act.

[@user-dg2og9zh3t]

Do you know what happened to Soviet POWs, who returned home? In case you didn't know, they were sent to GULAGs, because they were seen as traitors, who surrendered instead of dying for Soviet Union.

[@zetconzee4915]

This is slander. In percentage terms, only a few went through the filtration of the NKVD, and most often these were political leaders and officers. Collaborators, on the other hand, were shot on the spot without filtration.

[@harrisonlloyd9668]

My great granddad was a POW in africa in WW2, when he got home my nan didnt know who he was she was only 8 years old. He had to have the radio on all the time, even though the night - till the day he died he kept that radio on I remember him from when i was very young.

[@viko_gacha]

Solviet Union playing that song when ww2 ended: 😃 Hearing that song today: 💀

[@rorygilti2382]

Well, this Serbian guy is pro-russian supporters so the music is no surprise 😊

[@RMD94]

​@@rorygilti2382not supporting Ukraine doesn't make you pro Russia

[@RMD94]

Hearing the American national anthem after they have killed tens of millions 💀

[@rorygilti2382]

@RussiaUkrainePeace I don't support Russia nor Ukraine. I don't support war in general. We humans are our own disaster just waiting to happen. Older men ( using out generation to accomplish their dreams by fighting among each other. Peace ✌️ ☮️ 🕊

[@rorygilti2382]

@RussiaUkrainePeace when? Seems like you have a memory issue. 10 millions of people where?

[@timipwo1754]

If u think about it, British India had about 2 mil troops over the war and only 15 k surrendered so that means that like only 0.007 percent of the troops actually got captured which is probably one of the lowest out of all the countries

[@MrZombiekiller23]

imagine losing 3.3 million men thru surrenders and being taken prisoner ALONE and still being the main country that destroys the Nazis, the Soviets were so chad

[@pexonifikacija]

Срби су се борили против немачких агресора,

[@Anti-UTTP19]

The random viewers/scrollers write their family histories

[@Daurentius322]

My great grandfather and his brothers were taken as POWs during the invasion of Yugoslavia. Being Serbian they were treated badly but because they had blue or green eyes they were treated better than other Serbs, they were sent to a labour camp somewhere near Vienna where they ( my forefathers ) were assigned to help Austrian widows, whose husbands were high ranking officers that died in combat, helping them in and around their homes, being hulking men with exceptional masculine beauty many of them even managed to get more freedom because of the widows that had fallen in love with them. So much so that they managed to manipulate these women to use their authority to give all the Serbs in that labour camp as much liberty as is possible in such an environment. After the war they all went back to our place of origin in the Serbian region of Kolubara where afterwards many times these Austrian women would come begging for them to live with them in Austria. Needless to say they refused and continued to live out their lives as farmers, refusing to betray their homeland and their families for a better life, as you can imagine this and many other stories remind me of why I am proud of being a Serb and a direct descendant of such Serbian warriors.

[@batesBeckham]

You would need the amount of soldiers deployed vs the amount captured to get a percentage to see who surrendered the most.

[@syn_dell904]

All the people making fun of France's surrender in 6 weeks but don't know that it was enough time to loose 200k soldiers...

[@samtheking5759]

Bro legit called "british raj" as "british india" 💀💀💀

[@SirCat07]

british india 💀

[@haziq0007]

Disgusting and insulting ☠️

[@augth]

that's what it was

[@samtheking5759]

@@augth it was originaly knows as british raj when under british rule, plus it wasnt only india in the british raj, there was also pakistan and "pakistan 2.0" (bangladesh) also included

[@hirenahir76200]

Because that's what it was British Raj or British India is what names people use even at that time till now so he said nothing wrong

[@The_real_fbi]

Denmark surrendering in about 6-8 hours: 😶

[@slimyish]

Anzacs were the least because they’re always the toughest

[@TQsilva96k]

Imagine how different history would have been if France didn't surrender

[@Trompicavalas]

Considering the whole match surrender was a genius strategy for France. They almost didn't suffer the war and after 3 years of being part of the 3rd Reich they won the war with the allies.... Absolute Master play

[@unillustrious3154]

France would be considerably worse off imo

[@lahire4943]

Only keyboard warriors with no knowledge or understanding of the situation could think that France had other options than to sign an armistice, with a front collapsed, Paris taken, a hopeless numerical inferiority, the Dutch, Belgians and British gone. Imagine how different history would have been if the BEF had not left the front without telling their allies to save themselves though the situation was largely recoverable. That's the question you should ask.

[@Themata]

Interesting question. I'd guess exactly the same except with lots more rape, murder, death, and destruction in France

[@ardugaleen2231]

​​@@lahire4943 yeah tho tbh the war would have been easy to win hadnt the french hq been collabos... i mean the belgians told them where the germans were going thru in flanders, but the generals just sticked to their original strategy and left sedan unprotected. they could have bombed rommel's panzers and the war would have ended in 1941 with our troops in berlin with more british help this time

[@sethtate2079]

I got this old french army suplus rifle. Great condition. Never fired, only dropped once.

[@stevelenz7746]

You mean the one that France gave to the US colonies to get independent?

[@abhilashdas2460]

Name?

[@aokiaoki4238]

"Historical justice obliges me to state that of the enemies who took up positions against us, the Greek soldier particularly fought with the highest courage. He capitulated only when further resistance had become impossible and useless." Adolf Hitler's Address to the Reichstag (4 May 1941)

[@Soudruh-mn6el]

number 1 wasnt suprising

[@finallyfriday.]

As a percentage, those brits dropped their rifles faster than the Italians

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

Germans had 200,000 captured in Tunisia 1943

[@niksarass]

3 weeks runaway to dunkirk while allies kept fighting

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@asdsdasdad Also capturing 1,292 guns and 400 tanks to add.

[@niksarass]

@asdsdasdad That's not accurate. In Belgium they secretely retreated before the start of the fight, without advising the Belgian, the Luxo and the French. This was witness and publicly criticized by Belgian King Leupold III and he explained it was the main reason for Belgian collapse

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@niksarass The British fell back only after the French 9th army in the South collapsed.

[@Gamer-hack7]

Bro the Netherlands just got captured. Didn't even surrender just thought likE NOPE I AIN'T DOING THIS CRAP

[@kamilgiertuga_obserwator]

Captured and surrender is a big difference mate.

[@yermekzimanov8758]

Pavlov's house fought nazi coalition forces at peak longer than whole France altogether. With all due respect to fallen gallant soldiers and officers et resistance with hats off.

[@kleinbaba3607]

Yes and If I remenber Russian have fall on ww1 and France have take the lead for win and have shared victory with no regard about Russian army right?

[@kleinbaba3607]

Also when german and italia have take my country Russian was friend with german

[@michaelmuller9385]

Pavlovs house is a soviet propaganda fairy tale😂

[@lahire4943]

The Soviets got crush during Operation Barbarossa and would have surrendered in two weeks if the USSR had been the size of France.

[@gloverfox9135]

@@lahire4943 at least the Soviets kept fighting because dying on their feet is better than living on their knees as slaves unlike the french who happily kissed the boots of their German masters

[@user-qw2qm5hw4x]

Most of the Soviet pows were killed,but unfortunately Russia was too kind and naive and didn't took revenge.

[@harrycallahan5018]

3 million rapes and 50 years of communist occupation disagree. Its not like you guys were innocent at all either, bullying your way through Poland, Finland, and the Baltics. No one has pity for the Russians, they just fought a nation of equal size for once and got their asses kicked, and probably would've fell altogether if the capitalists they hate so much in the U.S.A. didn't supply their whole army with logistics equipment.

[@user-qw2qm5hw4x]

@@harrycallahan5018 there weren't that many women in Berlin lol. And who got their ass kicked? The German maniacs killed millions of civilians that's where most of the Soviet casualties came. And we should have done the same and should have killed the same amount of Germans. Also the land lease was a small %. The USA fought pensioners and teenagers because Russia have destroyed most of the German army,80 % of it. Also Russia has always fought equal opponents ,we had 13 wars with Turkey, Fought and defeated France, most of central Asia,Poland ect.

[@PyromaN93]

​@@user-qw2qm5hw4x if soviets wanted to do same thing to Germans, most population of Germany was wiped out.

[@user-wc5mg5uu9n]

Thank God we didn't took revenge. Losing your humanity is never worth it.

[@iplaygames8090]

​@@user-wc5mg5uu9n dday probably saves the germans from soviet revenge.

[@maryeerickson-fl1jp]

My father was in the 8th Air Force, and was a very sick 17 year old POW in Germany from June 44-March 45. Patton’s army freed the prisoners, and my dad made his way to a German farm house, where they contacted the Red Cross, which saved his life.

[@user-dg3ir9tm1j]

Wrong no. 9 is the Netherlands with 42k captured

[@user-ro7nf4kq6c]

Damn it annoys me when someone calls the soviets "allied" they had nothing to do with the allies other than lend lease

[@pascualodoghertycarame40]

Quizás también tenga algo que ver el que aniquilaron el 80% de la potencia militar de los nazis, y que les costó 26000000 de muertos. Ellos ganaron la guerra más que ningún otro pais

[@billy.g3597]

Becoming a POW does not mean you'll be safe from the fighting. My Grandfather was captured by the DAK in North Africa in WW2. He was put on a Italian merchant ship to be transported back to Italy. Only a day into the voyage, the ship was torpedoed and sank by a Royal Navy sub. My Grandfather and 800 other allied POW's perished.

[@onenote6619]

That's a deceptive question, because once the entire country surrendered it's people were no longer considered combatants.

[@Byepolarchaos]

I spoke with my father-in-law who fought in World War II, and he was told after the war without the Americans, the British and Australian seem to be the biggest pain in the ass to the Nazis, and in the same breath, the Nazis respected the Americans, the British and the Australians the most

[@unsocialchain]

France getting second is like Canada losing a hockey match to the USA

[@sapnupuas6950]

A Soviet soldier in German captivity or a German in Russian captivity, which one would be worse?

[@zainkhan69420]

Comparing hell with hell

[@dantehero1359]

Both were terrible. But I believe that a Soviet soldier in a German captivity was worse because the Nazi considered them an inferior race.

[@bigfish3428]

​@@dantehero1359 both had similar treatment, death marches, forced labor and lots of dead in captivity etc.

[@Losowy]

Both

[@neTap1483]

@@dantehero1359 Why did Russian SS divisons exist then?

[@shofiulazam7108]

History in schools failed to teach how brutal this war was for apviet union. They never recovered.

[@dogeknight6000]

France in second place is not surprising at all

[@ryandude5460]

I paused after the question I was trying to figure out which countries surrendered more than once 😂

[@Goldboi7t]

we all thought it would be France

[@surprise_]

No

[@ghy_nb8113]

My grandfather fought for the Soviet Union in Eastern Front. He used to say how difficult it was, with bullets incoming to hit you, and if you retreat your fellow comrades would shoot you as traitor. It was like somehow survive and keep going. Tough life. He survived the war but couldnot survive the battle with his cancer.

[@jbbradford9847]

What the list should be is How People Survived After being surrendered.

[@AlejandroLopez-of3go]

Japan:pl-please im sorry jus stop dropping bombs

[@racheltaylor6578]

Surrendering doesn’t make you a coward.Are you expecting people to fight to the death?

[@WebSoak]

Imagine being a French solider that didn’t even get a chance to fight then you’re just ordered to go meet the Germans for your surrender instead of going home 💀

[@LuigiTutorials]

Japan: You didn’t have to cut me off

[@Giantist]

Wow, this is an interesting factor that I don’t think many consider

[@konstantinosloukos595]

The Austrian painter said that Greece was the proudest country that would be sacrificed in the war. Whinstod Churchill said "heroes fight like greeks". 2023... 270k Greeks were surrendered in WW2 💀💀💀💀