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Pay for research Consider paying for research. Please bear in mind that The National Archives does not hold death certificates. What do I need to know before I start? Try to find out: the name of the person the approximate date of death the branch of the armed forces and the unit, if applicable. Allied air casualties recorded by German authorities, — Consult German record cards containing details of several thousand deceased allied airmen whose bodies were found by or near to their aircraft, having been shot down.
Name of person or ship. Contact us for advice. Still need help? Live chat For quick pointers Tuesday to Saturday to Soviet ex-POWs and repatriated civilians were treated with great suspicion as potential Nazi collaborators, and some were sent to the Gulag upon being checked by the NKVD.
Japanese POW camps, many of which were used as labor camps, also had high death rates. While 37, prisoners from the UK, 28, from the Netherlands, and 14, from the United States were released after the surrender of Japan, the number of Chinese released was only After , the number reached 10 million. About , of these Javanese laborers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia, and only 52, were repatriated to Java.
Canada had a similar program. In addition, 14, German and Italian citizens who had been assessed as being security risks were also interned. Hungarians were forced to work for the Soviet Union until Privacy Policy.
Skip to main content. Search for:. That caveat aside, the most up-to-date estimates calculate that between 70 million and 85 people died in World War II. Surprisingly, more than twice as many civilians died in World War II than did members of the military. Current estimates place military deaths between 21 million and By comparison, civilian deaths include 29 million to Dutch East Indies Indonesia — 3 million to 4 million. French Indochina Laos , Cambodia , part of Vietnam — 1 million to 2.
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