The Human Cost of WW2 in Europe
Posted by ilann62113
The Human Cost of WW2 in Europe
Posted by ilann62113
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Belarus lost the most men compared to the general population from all the soviet ”republics”. Around 25-30 % of its population, which was a true demographic catastrophe.
Oh uncommon to see Spain on this maps
This is deaths, not casualties. If it included wounded the number would be much higher
What happened in turkey? did a bus crash?
UK on 450.7k is orange vs Italy on 457k which is pale red; where is the dividing line for the colours? Seeing as the colours correspond to ranges rather than using a uniform distribution and every country being a different shade like a heat map, why was a random value used to separate them rather than a more intuitive whole number?
Why not instead separate the colours at 500k?
You need some logic to the system; e.g. 5k, 10k, 50k, 100k, 500k, 1M, 5M, 10M
Surely Ireland should be coloured bright yellow?
What’s with Turkey only having ‘100’? Does that stand for something else here?
Pretty sure Norway is a few thousand higher than this, but in the grand scheme I suppose it doesn’t move the needle here.
Italy had remarkably low casualties considering it was one of the main players of the Axis.
WW2 was disaster. We lost 100 people
how many men did lose Italy on Axis side and on allied side?
The colour coding on this map is terrible!
Why is the map using the map of Czechoslovak 2nd republic which existed only some 5 months (Oct 1938 to Mar 1939) when it’s about WW2 casualties?
Terrible map.
Ireland isn’t really right a significant amount fought in the British army
Why number as a percentage of the population can be more meaningful
**Poland:** ~18% (approx. 5.6–6 million dead)
**Soviet Union:** ~14% (approx. 24–27 million dead, with Belarus and Ukraine experiencing the highest regional devastation)
**Yugoslavia:** ~10-11% (approx. 1 million dead, with Bosnia and Montenegro suffering the heaviest regional losses)
**Germany & Austria:** ~11% (approx. 6.5–8.8 million dead)
**Greece:** ~7-11% (approx. 300,000–800,000 dead)
**Hungary:** ~5-9% (approx. 580,000 dead)
**Netherlands:** ~2.3% (approx. 200,000–300,000 dead)
**France:** ~1.5-2% (approx. 500,000–800,000 dead)
**United Kingdom:** ~1% (approx. 450,000 dead)
**Italy:** ~1% (approx. 450,000 dead)
Italy is surprisingly low.
germans revange of europe, they killed so many people unbeliveble.
Norway lost over 10k, what are these numbers?
Kudos to the author for not including today’s borders, making it less confusing.
Asia is p retty wild. China lost 20 million
How do we really know Soviet Union lost 24M people during WWII?
I recently learned that Indonesia lost 3-4 Million people between 1942-1945. Mind blowing.
An estimated 3 million to 4 million people died in Indonesia (then known as the Dutch East Indies) during World War II, making it one of the highest death tolls of the entire global conflict. The vast majority of these casualties were indigenous civilian deaths resulting from severe famine, forced labour, and medical neglect under the Imperial Japanese occupation between 1942 and 1945
The German casualties/deaths is weird. Does it include all ethnic Germans as well as people in the German army. Lots of German casualties could have actually been from different countries who join German armies/claimed they were German. The South America escape too is a thing too. Lots of MIA/KIA Germans escaped to South America and other countries
I d9nt like the color coding.
Maybe this kind of value spread needs a logarithmic scale or something? But 7.7 mio and 24 mio (3 times as much) should be more distinct.
And or maybe as a percentage of population?
Or maybe the binning should be differently: UK and France have basically the same number but different colors, yugoslavia has twice as many casualties but same color as france.
I dont think this map conveys on a glance which country was impacted most or more relative to another other country. Maybe greyscale would have worked better.
Netherlands has quite high numbers in comparison to other countries while having lower population.I am Dutch and wasnt really aware
How come Sweden is on the list as they did not take part in the war?
Greece having more deaths than italy is hard to comprehend
Denmark got off pretty well even though it was in the axis grip for so long along with norway
What type of casualties? Military only, civilian only or total (military+civilian)?
Jesus Christ, wtf happened to Portugal?!
Yugoslavia doing some heavy lifting compared to others of its size
British had a lot of colonial soldiers too. Don’t forget global south.
Damn, I didn’t realise Russia was hit so hard. My great grandfather was stationed in Russia
Everyone: dying.
Turkey: I sleep.
And this dent in the population is why immigrants from india/pakistan ended up happening.
And I’m guessing these numbers also include civilians?
5k in the republic of Ireland, please tell me more ?
I’d be interested to know more about the deaths in Scandinavia. Sweden didn’t even fight. How did the 2000 die?
2028…hold my beer.
To quote Boney M “Oh, those Russians”. Total war for them.
Liechtenstein is at -1 because they added a soldier they found on a mission
Looks like surrendering early and fighting badly were the meta back then.
How did Turkey manage to stay neutral but still got 100 people killed?
Most of Soviet casualties was civilian deaths. Only 8-10 million death caused by direct military actions
Millions dead::meme.