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Miscellaneous SS Units:

 

Abbreviations:
SS: Schutzstaffeln; PD: Panzer Division; PgD: Panzergrenadier Division; GbD: Geblrgs (Mountain) Division; KD: Kavallerie (Cavalry) Division; F: Freiwillinge (Volunteer); WGD: Waffen Grenadler Division; WGbD: Waffen Gebirgs Division.

Source: A. J. Barker, The Waffen–SS at War (London, 1982), app.: ‘SS Divisions, 1940–5; 121–2; B Quarrie, Hitler’s Samurai: The Waffen–SS in Action (London, 1983), ch. 2, ‘The Growth of the Waffen–SS’; G.H. Stein, The Waffen–SS: Hitler’s Hitler’s Elite Guard at War, 1939–1945 (Itheca, NY, 1966)

Europe’s Estimated Death Toll, 1914–45

1 Military losses during the First World War
(by states, killed in action or dead of wounds) (not including USA)
Allied Powers
Russian Empire
1700000
France
1357800
Britain & Empire
908371
Italy
650000
Romania
325706
Serbia
70000
Belgium
13716
Portugal
7222
Greece
5000
Montenegro
3000
sub-total
5040815
Central Powers
Germany
1773700
Austria-Hungary
1200000
Turkey
325000
Bulgaria
87500
sub-total
3388200
Total
(estimate)
8427015
2 Military losses during the Second World War
(by states, killed in action or dead of wounds) (not including USA)
Allied Powers
Soviet Union ‘
*
8–9000000
Yugoslavia
305000
Britain
264443
France
213324
Poland
123178
Greece
88300
Belgium
12000
Czechoslovakia
10000
Netherlands
7900
Norway
3000
Denmark
1800
sub-total
10026945
Axis Powers
Germany
3500000
Romania
300000
Italy
242232
Hungary
200000
Finland
82000
Bulgaria
10000
sub-total
4335232
Total
(estimate)
14362177
3 Civilians killed during the Second World War
(by states)
 
minimum
maximum
Allied Powers
Soviet Union
**
16000000
19000000
Poland
***
5675000
7000000
Yugoslavia
1200000
 
France
350000
 
Greece
325000
 
Czechoslovakia
215000
 
Netherlands
200000
 
Britain
92673
 
Belgium
76000
 
Norway
7000
 
Denmark
2000
 
Axis Powers
Germany
780000
 
Hungary
290000
 
Romania
200000
 
Italy
152941
 
Bulgaria
10000
 
Finland
2000
 
Total
(estimate)
27077614
 
4 The Holocaust: the genocide of Jews by the Nazis, 1939–45
(by states of origin, minimum and maximum estimates)
 
minimum
maximum
Poland
2350000
3000000
Soviet Union
1500000
2000000
Germany & Austria
218000
240000
Hungary
200000
300000
Romania
200000
300000
Netherlands
104000
110000
Czechoslovakia
90000
55 000
France
60000
65000
Greece
57000
60000
Yugoslavia
55000
60000
Belgium
25000
28000
Italy
8500
9500
Luxembourg
2800
3000
Norway
700
1000
Denmark
less than 100
 
Totals
(estimate)
4871000
6271500
average
c
.5 571300
5 Categories of people killed in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union 1917–1953 (excluding war losses, 1939–45)
(after R. Medvedev, R. Conquest)
 
minimum
maximum
Civil War & Volga Famine, 1918–22
3000000
5000000
Political repressions In the 1920s
tens of thousands
 
Forced collectivization and ‘dekulakization’ after 1929
10000000
14000000
Ukrainian Terror-Famine, 1932–3
6000000
7000000
Great Terror (1934–9) and Purges
1000000
 
Deportations to the Gulag, to 1937
10000000
 
Shootings and random executions, 1937–9
1000000
 
Deportations from Eastern Poland, Baltic States, and Romania, 1939–1940
2000000
 
Foreign POWs: Poles, Finns, Germans, Romanians, Japanese
1000000
 
Deportations to the Gulag, 1939–45
7000000
 
Deportations of nationalities: Volga Germans, Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tatars, etc.
1000000
 
Post-war screening of repatriates and inhabitants of ex-occupied territory
5000000
6000000
Gross total
(median estimate)
c
.54 million
NB
. Several of these categories overlap.

The Gulag Archipelago: Soviet Concentration Camps and KGB prisons
(after Avraham Shifrin,
c
1980)

(a)
In Arctic Russia;
(b)
In the European part of the USSR

The Baltic Countries, 1993

Europe, 1992: Assorted Statistics

Country
Territory (sq. miles)
Population
Density
(per sq.m.)
Population (m.)
GDP ($ bn.)
European Union
Belgium
11,781
851
10.025
218.7
Denmark
16,629
311
5.17
142.1
France
211,207
272
57.372
1324.9
Germany
137,352
587
80.569
1775.1
Greece
50,944
202
10.3
79.2
Ireland
27,136
131
3.547
48.8
Italy
116,303
497
57.782
1223.6
Luxembourg
908
374
.340
10.4
Netherlands
15,963
951
15.178
320.4
Portugal
35,553
277
9.846
83.9
Spain
194,884
175
34.085
573.7
UK
94,226
614
57.848
1040.5
Europaan Free Trade Area
Austria
32,374
244
7.884
184.7
Finland
130,119
39
5.042
109.6
Iceland
102,819
3
.260
6.6
Norway
125,181
34
4.286
113.1
Sweden
173,648
50
8.678
245.8
Switzerland
15,941
433
6.905
240.5
Ex-Soviet Bloc
Czech Rep.
30,343
342
10.383
25.3
Hungary
35,969
284
10.202
30.7
Poland
120,725
318
38.365
75.3
Slovakia
18,917
283
5.346
10.2
Albania
11,101
301
3.338
1.0
Bulgaria
42,823
209
8.952
11.9
Romania
91,699
249
22.865
24.9
Cyprus
3,578
200
.715
7.1
Malta
122
2,950
.360
2.6
Ex-Yugoslavia
Bosnia
19,741
221
4.366
 
Croatia
21,824
219
4.784
8.6
Macedonia
9,928
205
2.039
5.06
Montenegro
5,332
120
.639
 
Serbia
34,107
287
9.792
 
Slovenia
7,817
258
2.017
14.4
(Yugoslavia, to 1991)
(98,766)
(239)
 
 
Ex-USSR
Belarus'
80,150
129
10.346
32.2
Estonia
17,413
89
1.554
5.9
Latvia
24,500
107
2.617
8.9
Lithuania
25,174
149
3.754
10.1
Moldavia
13,000
335
4.359
9.5
Russia
6.591m.
23
148.920
479.5
(in Europe)
c
.1.3m.
921
1201
 
Ukraine
232,046
225
52.1
121.9
EUROPE: TOTAL
3,639,001 sq.m.l
C
.190
694.011
8626.6#
EU
912,886
375
342.062
6841.3
USA
3,618,770
70
252.18
5689.2
Japan
142,811
871
124.45
3707.9
GDP ($per capita)
GDP (purchasing power parity)
Higher education (% pupils/population 20–4 aged)
Medical care (people per physician)
21,815
18,170
37
321
27,485
17,768
32
448
23,093
18.665
40
421
22,032
16.310
33
710
7,689
8,417
29
340
13,758
12,427
26
410
21,176
17.521
31
552
30,588
24.771
33
496
21,110
17,023
34
444
8,521
9,736
18
575
16,831
14,731
34
360
17,987
16,300
25
870
23,427
18,005
33
333
21,737
15,025
47
322
25,385
17,067
25
960
26,388
17,785
43
503
28,324
16,496
33
355
34,830
22,159
28
1,441
2,437
6.923
18
389
3,009
5,297
15
740
1,963
4,081
22
416
1,908
5,224
18
389
229

7
2.070
1,329
4.770
31
340
1,089
2.307
9
n.a.
9,930

15
754
7,222

11
500
 
 
 
636
1,800
 
 
471
2,481
 
 
463
 
 
 
493
7,150
8,098
 
512
3,110
 
 
250
3,830
 
 
204
3,410
 
 
195
2,710
 
 
222
2,170
 
 
249
3,220
 
 
214
2,340
 
 
229
11,9331#
 
 
 
20,000
I = estimate
# includes the whole of the Russian Federation
22,560
Sources OECD Main Economic Indicators
, December 1993;
IMF IFS
,
29,794
December 1993;
DOTS 1993 Yearbook, World Bank Atlas
, 1994

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