How many Ukrainians died during World War 2?

Answer 1

The answer to this question is hard to answer because Ukraine was at the time of WW2, part of the Soviet Union.

Latest estimates suggest 27 to 28 million Soviets died as a result of the war on The Eastern Front, through combat, starvation, being imprisoned, and killed in cold blood and other factors.

I would say that at the very least, it would run into a few million Ukrainians. Those fighting in the Red Army in other parts of the Soviet Union, and those civillian and soldier in the Ukraine.

Ukraine casualty figures are hard to calculate, for they were integrated with that of the other nations that made up The Soviet Union at the time such as Russia, Georgia etc.

Upon the German invasion, some quarters of the Ukranian population welcomed the Germans as liberators from what had been horrific treatment from Stalin.

The Ukraine had been pushing for independence from The Soviet Union, and hardline Ukrainan nationalists became partisans for the Germans, attacking the Red Army in directions it could access.

Soviet civillian partisans and Red Army partisans conducted guerrila warfare against the Germans and the Ukranian nationialists.

It was very ugly, with civillians being killed for being anti German, or anti Ukraine nationalist, or anti Soviet.

Certain quarters of the German High command argued that the Ukraine could be allies against the Soviets should the Germans continue in acting as liberators in the Ukrainian's eyes.

However, the hardline Nazi view rejected this and treated Ukrainians as beneath them, killing, maiming, looting, imprisoning, starving, raping, and throwing people out of their homes to freeze to death so the German soldiers had a warm place to sleep, before in many cases, looting the house, and burning it to the ground and then moving on.

Eventually, the Ukranian nationalists realised what the Germans were about, and chose with the rest of the Soviet Union, to have a Russian speaking dictator then a German speaking dictator as their oppressor.

They thus began partisan acts against the German Army, as well as continuing partisan acts against The Red Army and war with Soviet partisans.

Thus, with them fighting against two powerful enemies and another partisan faction, the Ukranian nationlists suffered heavy casualties, as well as Ukranian civillians killed for their homes or reprisal for partisan action, and the Ukranians also suffered heavy casuaties fighting for the integrated Red Army all over the Soviet Union.

In conclusion then, Ukranian deaths were most likely high, and at the very least a few million died.

We may never know for sure, 27 to 28 million Soviets are believed to have died, and that number is inclusive of all the nations that fought as The Soviet Union.

Answer 2

Try this: http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/

Answer 3

A reference thread in the Axis History Forum gives an estimate of 656,000 for Ukraine (prewar frontiers).

Answer 4

anywhere from 6 to 8 million people died in the Ukraine genocide.