For King and Country, that is good old fashioned patriotism. Because they were mislead by a very successful advertising campaign, which exploited not good, not old fashioned, but blind patriotism. Over 5 million allied soldiers were casualties.
it's estimated that about 3.25 Million people fought in the Battle of Berlin. 2.5 Million were allied (2.3 Million Soviet and 200,000 Polish) soldiers, whiles 766,750 Germans fought to defend Berlin during World War 2.
Around 25 Million military personnel were killed during World War 2. Around 17 Million deaths were allied soldiers and the rest were axis military personnel.
Allied Military Casualties: 14,276,800 Allied Civilian Casualties: 25,686,900 Allied Total Casualties: 39,963,700
The main difficulties in arriving at an overall total arise from major uncertainties as to the number of Soviet soldiers killed in World War 2. The figures for military dead for the Soviet Union range from 8.8 million to 10.7 million.See the link to the Wikipedia article, which (as accessed on 13 April 2010) gives a worldwide total of military dead ranging from about 22.6 million to about 25.5 million (and an overall worldwide range, including civilians, of 62.4 million to 78.4 million).Please see the link and related questions.thousands :((gone but not forgotten Stanley
The true number isn't known but it is estimated at 16 million allied solders were killed. The number of Russian soldiers alone may be as high as 26 million. The total deaths on all sides may be as high as 70 million. This number includes up to 46 million civilians that died in this war. The list divided by each country is available on the related link.
The Russian Empire: a total of about 12 million soldiers
Around 25 Million soldiers were killed during WW2. his was about 1.25% of the global population. Vst majoirty of those deaths were allied soldiers.
For King and Country, that is good old fashioned patriotism. Because they were mislead by a very successful advertising campaign, which exploited not good, not old fashioned, but blind patriotism. Over 5 million allied soldiers were casualties.
it's estimated that about 3.25 Million people fought in the Battle of Berlin. 2.5 Million were allied (2.3 Million Soviet and 200,000 Polish) soldiers, whiles 766,750 Germans fought to defend Berlin during World War 2.
Around 25 Million military personnel were killed during World War 2. Around 17 Million deaths were allied soldiers and the rest were axis military personnel.
About 25.2 Million Soldiers were killed during World War 2. 34% being Axis Deaths and 66% being Allied Deaths.
Allied Military Casualties: 14,276,800 Allied Civilian Casualties: 25,686,900 Allied Total Casualties: 39,963,700
Germany lead the way in casualties, with some 19 Million dead.
Germany did.It also lost 19% of those soldiers.
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Russia 10 million soldiers 25 million civilians China 3.5 million soldiers 20 million civilians Germany 5 million soldiers 7 million civilians Japan 2 million soldiers 3 million civilians Poland 250,000 soldiers 5 million civilians