Here is a comparative death toll listing for Germany and USSR during WWII according to a multitude of sources:
GERMANY
* Military:
o HarperCollins: 2,850,000
o Ellis: 3,250,000
o Compton's: 3,250,000
o Info. Please: 3,250,000 (all causes)
o Britannica: 3,500,000 (incl. 1M missing. Not incl.: 250,000 dead of natural causes, suicide and execution)
o Small & Singer: 3,500,000
o Encarta: 3,500,000
o Keegan: 4,000,000
o Kinder: 4,000,000
o Urlanis: 4,500,000
o Eckhardt: 4,750,000
o MEDIAN: 3.5M
* Civilian:
o Compton's: 500,000
o Britannica: 780,000
o Wallechinsky: 780,000
o Davies: 780,000
o Eckhardt: 1,471,000
o Keegan: 1,593,000
o Urlanis: 2,000,000
o HarperCollins: 2,300,000
o Ellis: 2,050,000 (by Allies), 300,000 (by Germans)
o Kinder: 3,800,000
o Encarta: 3,800,000
o MEDIAN: 1.6M
* All (undifferentiated):
o Compton's: 3.75M
o Wallechinsky: 4M
o Britannica: 4.28M
o Messenger: 5M
o HarperCollins: 5.15M
o Ellis: 5.55M
o Keegan: 5.593M
o Eckhardt: 6.221M
o Urlanis: 6.5M
o Encarta: 7.3M
o Kinder: 7.8M
o MEDIAN: 5.5M
USSR
* Military:
o Info. Please: 6,115,000 (all causes)
o Compton's: 6,750,000
o Keegan: 7,000,000
o Small & Singer: 7,500,000
o Eckhardt: 7,500,000
o Davies: 8,000,000 to 9,000,000
o Barbarossa, the Axis and the Allies, by John Erickson and David Dilks
+ KIA, Died of wounds, Accidents, Suicides: 6,885,1000 [sic]
+ Dead and Missing: 8,668,400
+ Mentions and dismisses other estimates of 23M and 26.4M.
o Richard Overy, Russia's War (1997); also :
+ KIA, DoW, etc.: 6,885,100
+ Total Dead: 8,668,400
o Mazower: 3M POWs through starvation + 6.5M in battle = 9.5M
o Urlanis: 10,000,000
o Volkogonov: 10,000,000
o Ellis: 11,000,000
o Britannica: 11,000,000
o Encarta: 13,000,000
o Kinder: 13,600,000
o Wallechinsky: 13,600,000
o HarperCollins: 14,500,000
o 30 Apr. 1994 Guardian: 22M
o Steven Shabad
+ Sokolov's new calculations: 26.4M
+ Gorbachev's official est.: 8,668,000 Red Army dead
o MEDIAN: 10M
* Civilian:
o Compton's: 6M
o Ellis: 6,700,000
o Britannica: 7,000,000
o HarperCollins: 7,000,000
o Encarta: 7,000,000
o Kinder: 7,000,000
o Keegan: 7,000,000
o Eckhardt: 7,500,000
o Mazower: 10M
o Urlanis: 10,000,000
o Steven Shabad (citing Sokolov): 16.9M
o Richard Overy, Russia's War (1997): "best estimate" 17M, citing
+ Sokolov: 16,900,000
+ Korol: 24,000,000
o Davies: 16,000,000 to 19,000,000
o 30 Apr. 1994 Guardian: 18M
o MEDIAN: 7M
* Total:
o Compton's: 12.75M
o Keegan: 14M
o Eckhardt: 15M
o Ellis: 17.7M
o Britannica: 18M
o Mazower: 19.5M
o Encarta: 20M
o Messenger: 20M
o Urlanis: 20M
o Kinder: 20.6M
o HarperCollins: 21.5M
o Wallechinsky: 20-26M
o Richard Overy, Russia's War (1997): 25M
o Davies: 24M to 28M
o Volkogonov, Dmitri, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (1991): 26-27M
o Guiness World Records: 26.6M [
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=46251]
o Hochschild: 27M
o 30 Apr. 1994 Guardian: 40M
o Steven Shabad
+ Sokolov's new calculations: 43.3M
+ Stalin's official public est.: 7M dead
+ Khrushchev's official est.: 20M
+ Gorbachev's official est.: 27M
o Barbarossa, the Axis and the Allies, by John Erickson and David Dilks: 49M (acc2 book review: Agence France Presse, 16 June 1994)
o MEDIAN: 20M
Take out the smallest and the biggest numbers for each category and calculate the average:
GERMANY
* Military:
3.625.000
* Civilian:
1.311.555
* All (undifferentiated):
5.500.000
USSR
* Military:
~11.000.000
* Civilian:
~10.000.000
* Total:
~23.400.000
This gives as result USSR/German losses :
Military 3to1
Civilian ~8to1
Total ~4to1
Provided Germany was ruthlesly carpet bombed by the Allies especial in industrial complexes and cities, the death toll for Russia is enormous...
Some interesting statistics that actually proove the power of numbers that won the war for Russia can be seen here:
http://www.angelfire.com/ct/ww2europe/stats.html
Also, regarding military losses in Eastern front especially:
(Includes missing, but not POWs. According to John Ellis, World War II : a statistical survey (Facts on File, 1993) unless otherwise noted.)
* Poland, 1939
o Poles: 66,300
o Germans: 13,110
o [Soviets]: 900 ("Russians")
o [TOTAL: ca. 80,000]
* Denmark/Norway, 1940
o Germans: 3,692
o Norwegians: 2,000
o Danes: -
o [TOTAL: ca. 5,700]
* France 1940
o French: 120,000
o Germans: 43,110
o British: 11,010
o Belgians: 7,500
o Dutch: 2,890
o Italians: 1,250
o [TOTAL: ca. 185,000]
* Balkans, 1941
o Yugoslavs: ?
o Italians: 38,830
o Greeks: 19,000
o Germans: 3,674 (K+W) [A total of 34,040 Germans were killed in the Balkans to 31 Dec. 1944]
o [TOTAL: ca. 160,000]
* Greece, 1940-41 (according to Gilbert, A History of the 20th Century)
o Italians: 13,755
o Greeks: 15,700
o Germans: 2,232
o British: 3,712
o [TOTAL: ca. 35,400]
* Eastern Front, 1941-45
o Ellis
+ [Soviets]: 11,000,000 ("Russians")
+ Germans: 2,415,690 (K+M+POWs, incl. SS troops, to Dec. 1944. Another est. is 1,001,680K + 1,287,140M = 2,288,820 in Field Army only, 22-June 1941-10 March 1945.)
+ Romanians: 381,000 (as Axis). 170,000 (as Allies)
+ Hungarians: 136,000
+ Poles: >40,000
+ Bulgarians: 32,000
+ [TOTAL: ca. 14,000,000]
o Clodfelter
+ [Soviets]: 7.5M to 12.0M ("Russians")
+ Germans: 1,001,000 kia
+ Romanians: 300,000 d.
+ Hungarians: 200,000 d.
+ [TOTAL: ca. 11,251,000 ± 2,250,000]
If this is no proof of the fact that Russia won not by superior tactics, not by superior armour or weaponry but by a huge death toll then what is?
It is very impressive and speaks for itself that Romanians, who fought first as Axis and later with Allies, lost 381.000 with the Axis side and 170.000 with the Allies.... This means alot!!!
I am looking for information regarding the same data but sparsed over the years of war and also, of the forces occupied in Eastern front during the war... Since our friend Kunikov is not willing to share his sources with the rest of us, someone has to do it... I am looking forward for anybody who can add information from ANY liable source so I can build a propper chart and publish it on a web-page so it will not occupy forum space and bandwidth...