Jack Cohen
Jack Cohen – Believe this!
During WWII the following casualties (deaths) are estimated:
- Total casualties: 75 million people, including ca. 25 million military and ca. 50 million civilians
- Soviet Union (Russia): ca. 26 million, including ca. 11 million military and ca. 15 million civilians
- China: ca. 19 million, 3.5 million military and ca. 15.5 million civilians
- Germany and Austria: ca. 9 million, ca. 2 million military and ca. 7 million civilians
- Poland: ca. 6 million, 250,000 military and ca. 5.75 million civilians
- Japan: ca. 3 million, ca. 2.3 million military and ca. 0.7 million civilians
- Yugoslavia: ca. 1 million, ca. 400,000 military and ca. 600,000 civilians
- France: ca. 600,000, 210,00 military and ca. 390,000 civilians
- Italy: ca. 500,000, ca. 350,000 military and ca. 150,000 civilians
- Philippines: ca. 460,000, ca. 60,000 military and ca. 400,000 civilians
- Gt. Britain and colonies: ca. 450,000, ca. 384,000 military and ca. 66,000 civilians
- United States: ca. 430,000, ca. 407,000 military and ca. 12,000 civilians
- Many other counties lost up to 400,000 casualties
Note: that Jewish citizens of each country are included in these totals.
According to the same source, deaths of Jews in the Holocaust are estimated between a lower figure of 4.9 million and an upper figure of 5.9 million people. It is usual to round the figure off to ca. 6 million. Given the general level of casualties and the specific declared intention of Nazi Germany to exterminate all Jews, why is it so difficult for so many people to accept this figure. Do they not believe the figures given above for other countries?? Or is it just that they remain anti-Semites?
It should be noted that Jews fought in most armies, including ca. 300,000 in the Army of the Soviet Union. Also, as a percentage of the total, the loss to the Jewish people was staggering, ca. 55% of all Jews in Continental Europe and ca. 40% of all Jews worldwide. No other single nation or people suffered such losses.
(The source is Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties, and original sources cited within; I have rounded all figures and estimated the average)
