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The true death toll for WW2 will never be known. Estimates go from a low of around 60 million to as high as 80 million.
The vast majority of those who died were civilians, largely in China and the USSR. These people were, for the most part, never catalogued or accounted for, and far too many places were totally wiped out, leaving no one to record their passing.
Most countries tried to keep a list of those who were killed in military service, but even these records are incomplete, drastically so in countries which either had most of their records destroyed, or which suffered overwhelming casualties.
The true answer is that there is nothing approaching a complete list of the dead from WW2. Perhaps as many as half may have had their place and time of death known to someone at some time, but the reality is that probably less than a quarter were kept in a record which survived.
The United States is an exception to this rule, in that the home country and bureaucracy was virtually untouched by the war, and well over 95% of all Kia would have been officially recorded, with the names of the MIA also noted. Such records are available from the National Archives, part of the Federal Government.
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Can you find names of people who died in World War 2?
There are many lists of casualties in World War 2. For the most part, each country tends to only track the names of it's own soldiers and civilians who died. However, these lists are not 100 percent complete, as many people died without ever having been found or recorded.
Where to find the names of the men that fought in world war 2?
go to ask.com
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Their is a website on google, just simple type in WW2 forces records. Follow those instructions.
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Try Wikipedia.com(There is a link below). Evagelio
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You'll need to look to the related link below which will give you the names of those who died during the Korean War .
Can you find names of people who died in World War 2?
There are many lists of casualties in World War 2. For the most part, each country tends to only track the names of it's own soldiers and civilians who died. However, these lists are not 100 percent complete, as many people died without ever having been found or recorded.
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Where to find the names of the men that fought in world war 2?
go to ask.com
