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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (10860)	12/20/2005 2:20:39 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 32591

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 users.erols.com 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 users.erols.com