How many died in World War Two?
As I’ve mentioned in a couple of recent postings, I’m reading a book entitled “The Nazi Holocaust: Its History And Meaning”. Of course, it is widely known – if not accepted by Holocaust denialists – that some six million Jews perished in the Shoah.
Without in any way wanting to diminish the uniqueness and the horror of the Nazi extermination of the Jews, the terrible truth is that the death toll in the Second World War was far far greater than six million, but this figure is not so much in the public consciousness, not least because historians have made – and continue to make – varying estimates.
The Wikipedia page concerning the casualties of the Second World War provides one country by country breakdown which totals an incredible 73 million.