How many people and soldiers died in Croatia during World War 2?

Answer 1

It is estimated that 1.5 million people died as result of fighting in Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia (constinutent states of former Yugoslavia) during World War II. Most of the fighting took place in Bosnia and Hercegovina, but approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of that number was made up of ethnically Croat people.

This is a result of the percentage of civilians being ethinically Croat in areas where most figthing took place and as a result of ethnically Croat people, along with Bosnian Muslims and Serbs, being among largest communities to join a communist-led guerrilla movement against the occupying Axis and their allies which also included Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Serbs. Regular army units of the pro-Axis Croat regime tended to surrender and switch sides en masse to the communist-led guerrilla units in Bosnia, increasing the number of Croats in the guerrilla movement, especially, after Italy surrendered in 1943 and German defeats in Russia made it clear that Germany would lose the war. Although Serbs comprised a plurality of people living in the region, Croats were overrepresented among the civilians and military deaths until Serbs outside Bosnia sided with the communist-led guerrilla movement and fighting spread to Serbia with the advance of the Soviet army into Serbia in 1944. Many Serbian military dead occurred in 1945, probably needlessly, as the communist-led guerillas began operating as a standing army against German units in which they gave up their advantage by fighting conventionally in cities and open plains against retreating veteran German units.

Answer 2

More than 2.5 million.