September 26, 2009
Author's Response:
Soviet Union and China have suffered the biggest casualties during World War II, it is because German Fascists didnt consider Soviet people to be humans, nor did Japanese Fascists consider Chinese people to be humans and thus killed millions of them.
Both Soviet Union and China fought hard to defeat The fascist hordes. Most battles which involved millions of soldiers were fought on Soviet Soil.
Berlin (3.25 million soldiers)
Moscow (2.25 million soldiers)
Stalingrad (2.1 million soldiers)
Kursk (2.2 million soldiers)
as a comparison battles on the western front involved much less soldiers, since most german and italian soldiers were already fighting on the eastern front.
An American turning point was Landing on Omaha beach (lost 3.000 soldiers killed 1.200 German soldiers)
A Soviet turning point was Battle of Moscow (lost 1.000.000 soldiers, killed 400.000 German soldiers)
(The whole Italian campaign took 310.000 allied soldiers lives and 350.000 axis soldiers lives.)
China fought against Japan very hard, Chinese Communist Party and Kuomintang were fighting against the Japanese. Republic of China was in power during the war against Japanese, therefore you can see the republican flag of China in the flash movie.
USA flag has been added, since they were fighting Germans, Italians and Japanese on all fronts.
British flag and French flag have been added, since they were major powers.
Here is a list of countries with most lost lives to WWII on the allied side:
Soviet Union 24.000.000
China 20.000.000
Poland 5.000.000
Indonesia 4.000.000
Yugoslavia 1.000.000
...
France 550.000
USA 400.000
UK 400.000
Germany lost 8.000.000
Japan lost 2.700.000
Italy losy 500.000