Talk:World War II casualties

Luxembourg's numbers are wrong
hi, the numbers of luxembourgish casualties are a little wrong. As often described in multiple books, the percentage of casualties compared to the total 1939 population of luxembourg is around 2%, making it the highest loss suffered by a country in western europe. this is mainly due to the battle of the bulge ravaging half of the country. Anyway i have the following numbers out of this book: Michel Pauly : Geschichte Luxemburgs, 2013, ISBN-978-3-406-62225-0 p.102: 2848 dead luxembourgers forcefully serving in the german Wehrmacht 2048 dead civilians due to military actions (mainly Battle of the Bulge) 1208 dead deported luxembourgish jews (in concentration camps) 791 dead deported luxembourghish political prisoners (in concentration camps) 154 dead luxembourgish civilians who were forcefully resettled in the east 57 dead luxembourgers due to military actions serving in various allied forced

7106 total casualties -> which brings it to 2,45% of the total prewar population of luxembourg, like described in many books: highest perecentage loss  of any western-european country.

This information is in my opinion very important, because the very high death-toll luxembourg had to endure during WWII made the allies recognize Luxembourg's important contribution to the allied war effort and with it Luxembourg's independence was never questioned again. (like after WWI when Belgium and France questionned the commitment of luxembourg to the Entente cause.)

Can somebody please put this right ?

Thank you very much Letzebuergerr

Update citations
hi, citation #11's link is actually http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm instead of the one that's currently on the article. the website switched domains and I would like to see an edit reflecting that.

The Graph
Can someone please replace or remove the graph showing ww2 deaths by country? Not only does it not count the Indians that died due to the Bengal Famine, it also downplays the deaths of Filipinos by putting the their deaths in "others" despite a million deaths, man this is really disgusting. If someone doesn't replace or remove that graph I'll do it myself. FIX IT NOW!! 120.29.86.230 (talk) 10:21, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

The Graph #2
Placing Lithuania and Latvia into Allied nations is dubious at best. Nazis were welcomed as liberators and the resistance was almost entirely foreign (poles and russians along with Jewish partisans). Casualties numbers are completely unreliable as the only census data available was from 1923 (nearly 20 years before the war) and 1959 (15 years after the war). The only point of consensus is that vast majority of casualties were Jewish, Polish and Russian.

Semi-protected edit request on 27 May 2024
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 * ✅ M.Bitton (talk) 23:56, 27 May 2024 (UTC)