How much did Germany lose in World War II?

How much did Germany lose in World War II?

During World War II, the Soviet Union was definitely one of the absolute main forces of the anti-fascist camp, which is an indisputable fact. The victory of Stalingrad also marked the turning point of World War II and entered the stage of counterattack. Although westerners have been downplaying the Soviet Union's contribution to World War II in recent decades after the war, these practices are in vain after all.

The Soviet Red Army achieved brilliant results in World War II, but at the same time it paid a considerable price. In addition to economic and material losses, the population loss is also extremely serious.

According to the post-war statistics of the Soviet Union, as many as 6.88 million Soviet soldiers died directly in the war. In addition, soldiers killed after being captured directly killed 8.66 million people, which is said to be more than 9 million. And more than/kloc-0.8 million civilians died directly or indirectly because of the war!

So throughout World War II, 27 million Soviet soldiers and civilians died directly or indirectly because of the war! With the war wounded, the total number of casualties exceeds 46 million! This is a terrible figure, because the Soviet Union had a population of only 65.438+0.8 billion before the war.

Before the October Revolution, there were19150,000 people throughout Russia. By the end of World War II in 1945, the population of the Soviet Union was only a little over1600,000, that is, 30 years later, the population of the Soviet Union was less than 25 million. This is a very abnormal phenomenon. Among them, Russia lost 7 million people in World War I, and World War II was several times worse than World War I. ..

During the whole war, the Soviet Union mobilized 35 million people to join the army. You know, before World War II, the population of the whole Soviet Union was only1800,000 in/939.

If the ratio of men to women is 50/50, then there are only 90 million men. Among men, there are one third of the elderly and one third of children and adolescents. Young and middle-aged men who are suitable to join the army, the Soviet Union has at most 30 million people, and actually 35 million people join the army. It can be seen that there must be young soldiers, doll soldiers and old soldiers. This shows that this country has mobilized beyond its limit.

Anyone who can go to the front line has basically joined the army. When 35 million people joined the army and more than 27 million soldiers and civilians died, it was basically equivalent to every family dying because of the war. Some families even lost many people in the war. Even at the top of the Soviet Union, young children were killed in the war everywhere. And all the young men who joined the army are basically equal to two, and there must be 1 dead or disabled! The Soviet-German war basically took place in Ukraine, Belarus and central and western Russia today.

Central Asia and Siberia were basically unaffected by the war. Although the Soviet Union mobilized all the young and middle-aged people who joined the Soviet Union to participate in the war, it was the traditional areas where the three Slavic ethnic groups were distributed that suffered the most: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

So even today, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine have not got rid of the situation that there are more women than men. It can be said that the heavy population loss in World War II, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and even after the establishment of the Russian Federation for more than 30 years, this huge population gap has not been fully compensated. On the other hand, the precise population loss of Germany in World War II has always been difficult to count, because the territory of Germany changed greatly before and after the war, which led to inaccurate population statistics. After the war, Germany was divided into two parts, and its area was much smaller than before the war.

A corresponding part of the population was even distributed to other countries with the land after the war. For example, the Soviet Union and Poland were divided into East Prussia, and the border of Poland moved to the eastern part of the former Germany on a large scale.

Later, some residents of former East Prussia and other former German lands did not want to be Soviets or Poles, and emigrated to Germany or other countries. After World War II, it is generally believed that there are150,000 people left in East Germany and 35 million people in West Germany, making a total of 50 million people. Germany had a population of about 66 million before the war, which was basically complete. Simple subtraction, Germany reduced160,000 people.

However, Wolf Mountain in Hanhai (Wolf Mountain in Xiongnu) thinks that the total of Germany after World War II is only about 350,000 square kilometers, while Germany before World War II has almost 500,000 square kilometers. Therefore, it is obviously exaggerated to say that Germany lost160,000 people in World War II. German official post-war statistics believe that about 4.3 million people were directly killed.

Considering the normal proportion of military and civilian casualties, it is reasonable that the total population loss of Germany in World War II should be around 654.38+0.2 million to 654.38+0.3 million. If calculated according to130,000 people, the absolute population loss rate of Germany in World War II is about19.7%; In the Soviet Union, the proportion was 25.5%. It can be seen that the trauma of the Soviet Union is still relatively large.