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    World War II in Ukraine:

    Population Losses in World War II by Country

    by
    Andrew Gregorovich


    Population Losses in World War II by Country

    Total Losses in Thousands
      Military Civilian Total % of population
    Ukraine 2,500 5,500 8,000 19.1
    Germany 4,500 2,000 6,500 9.1
    Russia (RSFSR) * 1,781 4,000 5,781 (?) 2.9
    Poland 123 4,877 5,000 19.6
    Japan 2,000 350 2,350 3.4
    Yugoslavia 300 1,400 1,700 10.6
    France 250 350 600 1.5
    Italy 400 100 500 1.1
    Romania 300 200 500 3.7
    Greece 100 350 450 6.2
    Hungary 136 294 430 4.6
    Great Britain 290 60 350 0.7
    Czechoslovakia 46 294 340 3.0
    Austria 270 104 374 5.6
    USA 300 - 300 0.2
    Holland 12 198 210 2.4
    Finland 84 16 100 2.7
    Belgium 13 75 88 1.1
    Canada 42 - 42 0.4

    * This estimate of Russian losses does not include citizens of ByeloRussia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,

    Source: Ukraine During World War II 1938-1945, by V. Kusyk, Kyiv-Paris-New York-Toronto, 1992, p. 702. B. Urlanis Guerres et populations, Moscou 1975, p. 319-323; Das Dritte Reich (Muenchen 1985) Band 2. S. 404.


    The total USSR military loss in World War II was 8,668,400 including Ukraine, Byelorussia, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, etc. according to General M. Moiseyev, Chief of General Staff, USSR Armed forces (Voennoistoricheskiy zhurnal no. 3, March 1990; quoted by Peter G. Tsouras in The Great Patriotic War, p. 240.


    Kyiv burning
    The University of Kiev burning on November 6, 1943, the day the German Army retreated.


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    Reprinted from FORUM Ukrainian Review No. 92, Spring 1995
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