How many non-Jewish civilians were murdered during World War 2?

Answer 1

It's estimated that about 5 million non-Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.

People who were murdered during the holocaust were Jewish men, women, and children. Others that were murdered included Gypsies (Roma), Jehova's Witnesses, Communists, Soviet POWs, homosexuals, Blacks, and cripples.

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There's actually a lot of disagreement about this. The lowest figure I've seen is 5 million non-Jews and the highest is 11 million. 5 million is too low. A lot depends on which groups one decides to count as Holocaust victims.

Answer 2

The figure of about 5 million is widely quoted, but is too low. Most serious estimates are 7 million +. For the figures to be meaningful, one needs to know what they include and what has been omitted. For example, do the figures include the 1 million civilians who perished during the Siege of Leningrad or not? It can make quite a difference.

See the link for a blog that discusses some of the issues.

Answer 3

6 million.

One often finds a figure of '11 million, of whom 6 million were Jews'. However, the figure is given without any explanation of who the other 5 million were and should be treated with caution.

Answer 4

The best academic figures for all victims of the Holocaust is roughly 11 Million. This figure includes all those killed between 1933-1945. They include all the camps, including the death camps, shootings, and different euthanasia policies of the Nazi regime.

The best breakdown is as follows:

-5.1 Million Jews (roughly 50% of them Polish Jews)

-2.5 million Poles

-200,000-1 million Sinti/Roma (Gypsies)

-At least 200,000 disabled in the official Euthanasia campaigns of 1939-41

- 10,000 Homosexuals

-At least 200,000 "Aryan" German prisoners

-200,000 Occupied territory (Non-Jew and Non-Russian)

The number on the Russian side that can be atributed to the Holocaust are very dificult to determine as both the Nazi's and the Soviets waged a war of annihilation in the East as civilians were not spared. The figure may be close to 7 million Russians killed by all the Axis during the war. I do not believe those are calculated in Holocaust figures though as the 800,000 German civilian deaths from Allied bombing and the overall 3.6 Million German civilian deaths are obviously not counted in either.

Most of the deaths of the Holocaust were not in the gas chambers or camps but in shootings during various phases of military operations or occupied territories.

Answer 5

The Nazis and their accomplices murdered 5 million non-Jews in addition to the 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. (This creates a total of 11 million civilians brutally murdered.)

Answer 6

Over 5 million catholics gypes, people with mental or physical disabilities, and others who Hitler found as undesirables

Answer 7

a bunch

Answer 8

6 million