National Death Tolls for the Second World War
Level 1: more than 1,000,000 dead
China
Military:
Britannica: 1,310,224 (Nationalists, 1937-45)
Compton's: 1,310,224 (Nationalists, 1937-45)
HarperCollins: 1,324,000
Clodfelter
KMT: 1,319,958 KIA
Communists: admit to 500,000 d., but true toll probably 2M soldiers + civilians in Comm. areas.
Total: 3M
Japanese [make link]:
China and Korea
Nanking Massacre, 13 Dec. 1937-Feb. 38:
Spence, The Search for Modern China: 42,000
Gilbert: >200,000 civilians and 90,000 POWs
Dict.Wars: 200,000
Rummel: 200,000
P. Johnson: 200-300,000
27 Aug 2001 Newsweek, quoting Japanese textbook: "The number of dead is said to be over 100,000 and it is estimated to be over 300,000 in China."
Palmowski, Dictionary of 20th Century World History: "perhaps as many as" 400,000
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking (1997) cites these:
Liu Fang-chu: 430,000
James Yin & Shi Young: 400,000
Sun Zhaiwei: 377,400 corpses disposed of
Wu Tien-wei: 340,000
District Court of Nanking: 300,000
International Military Tribunal of the Far East: 260,000
Fujiwara Akira: 200,000
John Rabe: 50,000-60,000
Hata Ikuhiko: 38,000-42,000
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Appendix A: Battle Deaths in Major WW2 Campaigns
(Includes missing, but not POWs. According to John Ellis, World War II : a statistical survey (Facts on File, 1993) unless otherwise noted.)
China
Chinese: 3,211,420 (all casualty types)
Japanese: 388,600
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