Country | Military deaths | Civilian deaths | Jewish deaths | Total deaths |
Czechoslovakia  | 25.000 | 43.000 | 277.000 | 345.000 |
Military war dead of 25,000 included Killed during 1938 occupation; Czechoslovak Forces with the western allies (3,220); Czechoslovak military units on Eastern front (4,570); Slovak Republic (WWII) Axis forces (7,000); Partisan (military) losses of (2,170) and killed in 1945 uprising(8,000).Totals do not include an additional estimated 30,000 dead in Hungarian Army.Civilian losses in include killed during 1938 occupation; non Jewish victims of Nazi reprisals (26,500) and killed in military operations (10,000)).Civilian losses include the territories of prewar Czechoslovakia, including Carpathian Ruthenia which was ceded to the USSR after the war. The genocide of Roma people was 7,500 persons.Jewish Holocaust victims totaled 277,000. |
Denmark  | 2.100 | 1.000 | 100 | 3.200 |
During the Occupation of Denmark military war dead included 1,281Merchant Marine, 797 resistance fighters and 49 Army personnel. Civilian deaths included 628 victims of Nazi reprisals and 440 killed during military operations. The 3,900 Danish deaths in German military service are included with German losses. Figures are from Danish Military Historie website. It has been argued that the disproportionately low figure for Danish dead is due mainly to the non violent policy of the Danish resistance movement during the occupation. Deaths of Jewish Holocaust victims totaled 77. |
Dutch East Indies  | - | 3.030.000 | - | 3.030.000 |
Sources for total Indonesian civilian war dead range from 3 to 4million as detailed below. Not including 30,000 non Asians interned by the Japanese. John W. Dower cites a UN report that estimated 4 million famine and forced labor dead during the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia. The United Nations reported in 1947 that "about 30,000 Europeans and 300,000 Indonesian internees and forced laborers died during the occupation." They reported, "The total number who were killed by the Japanese, or who died from, hunger, disease and lack of medical attention is estimated at 3,000,000 for Java alone, 1,000,000 for the Outer Islands. Altogether 35,000 of the 240,000 Europeans died; most of them were men of working age." The Dutch Red Cross reported the deaths in Japanese custody of 14,800 European civilians out of 80,000 interned and 12,500 of the 34,000 POW captured.Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian death toll due to the war and Japanese occupation at 3,000,000 Indonesians and 30,000 interned Europeans. |
Estonia  | - | 50.000 | 1.000 | 51.000 |
The total of the civilian deaths due to the Soviet occupation in 1940–41 were 33,900 including 7,800 deaths of arrested people, 6,000 deportee deaths, 5,000 evacuee deaths, 1,100 people gone missing during the occupation, 2,000 conscripts en route, and 12,000 conscripts in the Soviet labour camps.Losses during the Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany were 9,040, the Nazis executed 7,800 people and 1,040 people were killed in Nazi prison camps. A documented 200 people died in forced labour service in Germany or en route.The documented civilian deaths in Soviet air raids in March 9–25 were 800.An estimated 1,000 Estonians were killed in Allied air raids on Germany and 1,200 died at sea while attempting to flee the country in 1944-1945.An dditional 5,000 Estonians died in Soviet prisons during 1944–1945.Figures do not include the executions, deportee deaths, and insurgent losses in 1946–1989 caused by the Soviet reoccupation documented at 11,000.The figures on the table do not include the military deaths among the illegally drafted conscripts within the Soviet (10,000)and German Armed Forces (11,000).The genocide of Roma people was 243 people,96,16 Jewish Holocaust victims totaled 1,000.Total deaths from 1940–53 due the war and the Soviet occupation were 81,740 (8% of the population).Not included in these figures are 102,000 persons who fled the country and became refugees. |
Ethiopia  | 5.000 | 95.000 | - | 100.000 |
Total military and civilian dead in the East African Campaign were 100,000.Military losses were 5,000. |
Finland  | 95.000 | 2.000 | - | 97.000 |
The Finnish National Archives website lists the names of the 95,000 Finnish military war dead .Figures include killed and missing from the Winter War and Continuation War with the Soviet Union as well as action against German forces in 1944–1945, Winter War (1939–1940) losses were 22,830, military deaths from 1941–1944 were 58,715 and 1,0362in 1944–1945 in the Lapland War Soviet sources list the deaths of 403 of the 2,377 Finnish POW taken in the War.During the Winter war of 1939–1940 the Swedish Volunteer Corps served alongside the Finns and lost 28 men in combat. 1,407 Finnish volunteers served in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS and 256 were killed in action. Civilian war dead were 2,000 due in part to the Bombing of Helsinki in World War II. |
France  | 217.600 | 267.000 | 83.000 | 567.600 |
Military war dead include 150,000 regular forces(1939–40 Battle of France 92,000; 1940–45 on Western Front (World War II) 58,000); 20,000 French resistance fighters and 40,000 POWs in Germany.There were an additional 5,000 military deaths in French Indochina.The pro-German Vichy France forces lost 2,653 killed.Vadim Erlikman, a Russian historian, estimates losses of Africans in the French Colonial Forces at about 22,000.French deaths in German Army (30–40,000), mostly men conscripted in Alsace-Lorraine, are not included in these totals. From the end of 1942 to 1945, during the Tunisian, Italian, French and German campaigns, the french regular army (about 260,000 men in autumn 1944) was composed of about 50–60% Maghrebis (mostly Algerians), 30–40% French (mostly Pied-Noirs) and 10% Black africans. Black africans were replaced by French Forces of the Interior by the end of 1944. Civilian losses include 120,000 killed due to military action and 230,000 victims of the Nazi reprisals and genocide (including 83,000 Jews).752 civilians were killed during the US air attacks on French Tunisia in 1942–1943.The genocide of Roma people was 15,000 persons.Jewish Holocaust victims totaled 83,000. |
French Indochina  | - | 1.000.000 | - | 1.000.000 |
Sources for total IndoChinese civilian war dead range from 1 to 1.5 million as detailed below. John W. Dower estimated 1 million deaths due to Vietnamese Famine of 1945 during Japanese occupation Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian death toll due to the war and Japanese occupation at 1.500.000. |
Hungary  | 300.000 | 80.000 | 200.000 | 580.000 |
Tamás Stark of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has provided the following assessment of losses from 1941–45 in Hungary. Military losses were 300,000–310,000 including 110–120,000 killed in battle and 200,000 missing in action and POW in the Soviet Union. Hungarian military losses include 110,000 men who were conscripted from the annexed territories of Greater Hungary in Slovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia and the deaths of 20–25,000 Jews conscripted for Army labor units. Soviet sources list the deaths of 54,700 of the 513,700 Hungarian POW taken in the War. Civilian losses of about 80,000 include 45,500 killed in the 1944–45 military campaign and in air attacks,and the genocide of Roma people of 28,000 persons.Jewish Holocaust victims, in 1939 borders, totaled 200,000. |
Grecce  | 20.000 | 220.000 | 71.300 | 311.300 |
The Greek National Council for Reparations from Germany reports the following casualties during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II. Military dead: 35,077 including, 13,327 killed in the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41; 1,100 with the Greek Forces in the Mid East and 20,650 partisan deaths. Civilian Deaths: 771,845 including: 56,225 executed by Axis forces ; 105,000 dead in German concentration camps(including Jews); 7,120 deaths due to bombing, 3,500 merchant marine dead, and 600,000 war related famine deaths Jewish Holocaust victims totaled 71,301. Gregory Frumkin, who was throughout its existence editor of the Statistical Year-Book of the. League of Nations gave the following assessment of Greek losses in the war. He points out that that, "the data on Greek war losses are frequently divergent and even inconsistent". His estimates for Greek losses are as follows: The war dead included 20,000 military deaths in the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41, 60,000 non-Jewish civilians, 20,000 non Jewish deportees, 60,000 Jews and 140,000 famine deaths during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II . |
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