X-Message-Number: 18132
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:02:10 +0900 (JST)
From: "Matthew S. Malek" <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #18116 - #18123

> >The war casualties of WWII were about six million over the course of six
> >years, with fighting on three fronts (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and
> >the Pacific).  This figure does _not_ include the additional millions
> >slaughtered in Nazi death camps.
> 
> Six million is the figure of people slaughtered in Nazi death camps.  
> German casualties during WWII (mostly in the Soviet Union) approx.
> twelve million.  Soviet casualties were approx. twenty to twenty-five
> million.  Western Allies were only to a much lesser degree involved in
> land combat and suffered therefore considerably less war deaths.

Thanks, Olaf, for clearing up my numbers.

You point out, however, that the casualty rate was largest where there was
the most ground fighting.  Thus, I still do not think that prolonging the
Pacific war by avoiding nuclear devastation would have resulted in "many
millions" of additional deaths.  I would, of course, be better able to
evaluate this if I had an idea of the total casualties in the Pacific war
only during WWII.

=>Long Life to ALL,
=>Matthew

P.S.  In your previous post, I agree very much with most of what you said.
Especially your comment about the perspective of a nation which has lost
the incumbent government with the loss of a war.  I have spent half my
time in Japan for the past several years, and I can see the same insight
here...

P.P.S.  I'll be out of the country for a couple of weeks.  Any additional
replies to anything that I have written might be best delivered as private
responses (or at least CC'ed to my private email) as I will not be reading
CryoNet again until just after New Years.

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