The total number of deaths in World War II. Victory presents the bill

The newspaper "Tomorrow" clarifies the results of the Second World War, for us - the Patriotic War. As usual, this happens in polemics with historical falsifications.

Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences G. A. Kumanev and a special commission of the USSR Ministry of Defense and the Department of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, using previously closed statistics in 1990, established that human casualties in the Armed Forces of the USSR, as well as border and internal troops ah of the country during the Great Patriotic War amounted to 8,668,400 people, which is only 18,900 more than the number of losses of the armed forces of Germany and its allies who fought against the USSR. That is, the losses in the war of German military personnel with the allies and the USSR were almost the same. The well-known historian Yu. V. Emelyanov considers the indicated number of losses to be correct.

Member of the Great Patriotic War doctor historical sciences B. G. Solovyov and Candidate of Sciences V. V. Sukhodeev (2001) write: “During the years of the Great Patriotic War (including the campaign for Far East against Japan in 1945) the total irretrievable demographic losses (killed, missing, taken prisoner and never returned from it, died from wounds, diseases and as a result of accidents) of the Soviet Armed Forces, together with the border and internal troops, amounted to 8 million 668 400 thousand people ... Our irretrievable losses according to the years of the war, they are as follows: 1941 (for half a year of the war) - 27.8%; 1942 - 28.2%; 1943 - 20.5%; 1944 - 15.6%; 1945 - 7.5 percent of total losses. Consequently, according to the above historians, our losses for the first year and a half of the war amounted to 57.6 percent, and for the remaining 2.5 years - 42.4 percent.

They also support the results of serious research work carried out by a group of military and civilian experts, including employees of the General Staff, published in 1993 in a work entitled: “Secrecy removed. Losses of the Armed Forces of the USSR in wars, hostilities and military conflicts ”and in the publications of General of the Army M.A. Gareev.

I draw the reader's attention to the fact that these data are not the personal opinion of boys and uncles in love with the West, but scientific research, conducted by a group of scientists with a deep analysis and a rigorous calculation of the irretrievable losses of the Soviet army during the Great Patriotic War.

“In the war with the fascist bloc, we suffered huge losses. They are received with great sorrow by the people. They hit the fate of millions of families with a heavy blow. But these were sacrifices made in the name of saving the Motherland, the life of future generations. And dirty speculation unfolded in last years around losses, the deliberate, malevolent exaggeration of their scale is deeply immoral. They continue even after the publication of previously closed materials. Under the false mask of philanthropy, well-thought-out calculations are hidden by any means to desecrate the Soviet past, a great feat accomplished by the people, ”wrote the above-mentioned scientists.

Our losses were justified. Even some Americans understood this at the time. “So, in a greeting received from the United States in June 1943, it was emphasized: “Many young Americans survived thanks to the sacrifices that were made by the defenders of Stalingrad. Every Red Army soldier who defends his Soviet land, by killing a Nazi, thereby saves a life and american soldiers. We will keep this in mind when calculating our debt to the Soviet ally.

For the irretrievable losses of Soviet military personnel in the amount of 8 million. 668 thousand 400 people are indicated by the scientist O. A. Platonov. The indicated number of losses included the irretrievable losses of the Red Army, Navy, border troops, internal troops and state security agencies.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences G. A. Kumanev in his book “Feat and Forgery” wrote that the Eastern Front accounted for 73% of the casualties of the Nazi troops during World War II. Germany and its allies on the Soviet-German front lost 75% of their aircraft, 74% of their artillery, and 75% of their tanks and assault guns.

And this despite the fact that they Eastern Front they did not surrender in hundreds of thousands, as in the West, but fought fiercely, fearing in captivity retribution for the crimes committed on Soviet soil.

The wonderful researcher Yu. Mukhin also writes about our losses of 8.6 million people, including those who died from accidents, diseases and those who died in German captivity. This number of 8 million 668 thousand 400 people of irretrievable losses of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is recognized by the majority of Russian scientists, historians and researchers. But, in my opinion, the indicated losses of Soviet military personnel are significantly overestimated.

German losses by the majority of Russian scientists, historians and researchers are indicated in the amount of 8 million 649 thousand 500 people.

G. A. Kumanev draws attention to the huge number Soviet losses military personnel in German prisoner of war camps and writes the following: “While out of 4 million 126 thousand military personnel of the Nazi troops taken prisoner, 580 thousand 548 people died, and the rest returned home, out of 4 million 559 thousand Soviet military personnel taken prisoner , only 1 million 836 thousand people returned to their homeland. From 2.5 to 3.5 million died in Nazi camps.” The number of German prisoners who died may be surprising, but one must take into account that people always die, and among the captured Germans there were many frostbitten and emaciated, as, for example, near Stalingrad, as well as the wounded.

V. V. Sukhodeev writes that 1 million 894 thousand people returned from German captivity. 65 people, and 2 million 665 thousand 935 died in German concentration camps Soviet soldiers and officers. Due to the destruction of Soviet prisoners of war by the Germans, the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War had irretrievable losses approximately equal to the losses of the armed forces of Germany and its allies who fought against the USSR.

Directly in battles with the German armed forces and the armies of their allies, the Soviet Armed forces lost in the period from 06/22/1941 to 05/09/1945, 2 million 655 thousand 935 less Soviet soldiers and officers. This is explained by the fact that 2 million 665 thousand 935 Soviet prisoners of war died in German captivity.

If the Soviet side in Soviet captivity had killed 2 million 094 thousand 287 (in addition to the dead 580 thousand 548) prisoners of war of the fascist bloc, then the losses of Germany and its allies would have exceeded the losses of the Soviet army by 2 million 094 thousand 287 people.

Only the criminal murder of our prisoners of war by the Germans led to almost equal irretrievable losses of servicemen of the German and Soviet armies during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

So which army fought better? Of course, the Soviet Red Army. With an approximate equality of prisoners, she destroyed more than 2 million more enemy soldiers and officers in battle. And this despite the fact that our troops stormed the largest cities in Europe and took the very capital of Germany - the city of Berlin.

Our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers brilliantly led fighting and showed the highest degree nobility, sparing the German prisoners of war. They had the full moral right not to take them prisoner for the crimes committed, shooting them on the spot. But the Russian soldier never showed cruelty towards the defeated enemy.

The main trick of liberal revisionists when describing losses is to write down any number and let the Russians prove it wrong, and in the meantime they will come up with a new fake. And how can you prove it? After all, the true exposers of the liberal revisionists are not allowed on television.

By the way, they tirelessly shout that all the people who returned prisoners and were driven to work in Germany were tried in the USSR and sent to forced labor camps. This is also another lie. Yu. V. Emelyanov, based on the data of the historian V. Zemskov, writes that by March 1, 1946, 2,427,906 who returned from Germany Soviet people were sent to their place of residence, 801,152 - to serve in the army, and 608,095 - to the worker battalions of the People's Commissariat of Defense. Of the total number of those who returned, 272,867 (6.5%) were placed at the disposal of the NKVD. These, as a rule, were those who committed criminal offenses, including those who took part in the battles against Soviet troops like, for example, "Vlasovites".

After 1945, 148,000 "Vlasovites" entered the special settlements. On the occasion of the victory, they were released from criminal liability for treason, limiting themselves to exile. In 1951-1952, 93.5 thousand people were released from their number.

Most of the Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians who served in the German army as privates and junior commanders were sent home before the end of 1945.

V.V. Sukhodeev writes that in active army up to 70% of former prisoners of war were returned, only 6% of former prisoners of war who collaborated with the Nazis were arrested and sent to penal battalions. But, apparently, many of them were forgiven.

But the United States, with its 5th column inside Russia, is the most humane and fair in the world Soviet power they presented the most cruel and unjust government, and the most kind, modest, courageous and freedom-loving people in the world, the Russian people were presented as a people of slaves. Yes, they imagined that the Russians themselves believed in it.

It is high time for us to throw off the veil from our eyes and see Soviet Russia in all the splendor of her great victories and achievements.

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Civilian casualties and total German population losses in World War II

A great difficulty is the determination of the losses of the civilian German population. For example, the death toll from the Allied bombing of Dresden in February 1945 ranges from 25,000 to 250,000, as the city hosted a significant but undetermined number of West German refugees whose number was impossible to count. Now the most probable death toll in Dresden in February 1945 is 25 thousand people. The victims of air raids within the borders of the Reich in 1937 were, according to official figures, 410 thousand people. civilians and another 23,000 police and civilian employees of the armed forces. In addition, 160 thousand foreigners, prisoners of war and displaced persons from the occupied territories died from the bombings. Within the borders of 1942 (but without the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia), the number of victims of air raids increases to 635 thousand people, and taking into account the victims of civilian employees of the Wehrmacht and policemen - up to 658 thousand people. The losses of the German civilian population from ground combat operations are estimated at 400 thousand people, the losses of the civilian population of Austria - at 17 thousand people (the latter estimate seems to be underestimated by 2-3 times). The victims of Nazi terror in Germany were 450 thousand people, including up to 160 thousand Jews, and in Austria - 100 thousand people, including 60 thousand Jews. It is more difficult to determine how many Germans became victims of hostilities in Germany, as well as how many Germans who were deported from the Sudetenland, Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, and also from the Balkan countries in 1945-1946 died. In total, more than 9 million Germans were evicted, including 250 thousand from Romania and Hungary and 300 thousand from Yugoslavia. In addition, up to 20,000 war criminals and Nazi functionaries were executed after the war in the zones of occupation of Germany and Austria, mainly in the Soviet one, and another 70,000 internees died in camps. There are other estimates of the victims of the civilian population of Germany (without Austria and other annexed territories): about 2 million people, including 600-700 thousand women aged 20 to 55 years, 300 thousand victims of Nazi terror, including 170 thousand Jews. The most reliable estimate of the dead among the expelled Germans is the figure of 473 thousand people - this is the number of people whose death is confirmed by eyewitnesses. It is not possible to determine the exact number of victims of land hostilities in Germany, as well as the possible number of deaths from starvation and disease (excess deaths during the war).

It is also impossible to estimate today the total irretrievable losses of Germany, as well as the losses of the civilian population. Appearing sometimes estimates of 2-2.5 million civilians, who died during the Second World War, are conditional, not supported by any reliable statistics or demographic balances. The latter are practically impossible to build due to significant changes in borders and population migrations after the war.

If we assume that the number of victims of hostilities in Germany among the civilian population was approximately equal to the number of victims of aerial bombing, i.e., about 0.66 million people, then the total loss of the civilian population of Germany within the borders of 1940 can be estimated at about 2.4 million people, excluding victims of excess natural mortality. Together with the armed forces, this will give a total loss of 6.3 million people, if we take the estimate of the losses of the armed forces made by B. Müller-Gillebrand. Overmans determines the number of dead German soldiers called up from the territory of Austria at 261 thousand people. Since we consider his estimate of the irretrievable losses of the Wehrmacht to be overestimated by about 1.325 times, then in the same proportion it is necessary to reduce his estimate of the losses of the Austrians in the Wehrmacht - to 197 thousand people. The number of victims of aerial bombardment of Austria was small, since this country had never been the main object of Allied air operations. The population of Austria was no more than one-twelfth the population of the Reich in the 1942 borders, and given the lower intensity of the bombing of Austrian territory, the losses of the Austrians from the bombings can be estimated at about one-twentieth of the total number of victims, i.e. 33 thousand people. We estimate the number of victims of hostilities on the territory of Austria at no less than 50 thousand people. Thus, the total losses of Austria can be estimated, together with the victims of Nazi terror, at 380 thousand people.

It must be emphasized that the figure of Germany's total losses of 6.3 million people cannot be compared with the total losses of the USSR of 40.1-40.9 million people, since the figure German losses obtained without taking into account the excess non-violent death of the civilian population. Only the losses of the armed forces can be compared. Their ratio is 6.73:1 in favor of Germany.