Talk:World War II casualties/Archives/2014/March

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Allied Bias

There's no images of fallen Axis soldiers. Why is this? Does Wikipedia value the lives of German/Japanese soldiers, who through no fault of their own were born into those particular countries and forcibly drafted into the military, than the lives of Americans? JDiala (talk) 06:47, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 22 March 2014

Casualties for greece are cited from an unreliable source, based on two pages only! (ref.259 of the article) . There has been a 20-year research on the number of victims of Greece as a consequence of WWII and are reported as follows: military deaths: 35,077 Civilian deaths due to military activity and crimes against humanity: 171,845 Civilian deaths due to war related famine and disease: 600,000 Total deaths: 806,922 Deaths as % of 1939 population: 11.2% Source: "Council for Reparations from Germany, Black Book of the Occupation(In Greek and German) Athens 2006 p. 1018-1019"

I request the table be updated with the reported numbers abovementioned.

194.94.44.220 (talk) 16:11, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Gregory Frumkin. Population Changes in Europe Since 1939, Geneva 1951. is a reliable source:

Gregory Frumkin, who was throughout its existence editor of the Statistical Year-Book of the League of Nations gave the following assessment of Greek losses in the war. He points out that that "the data on Greek war losses are frequently divergent and even inconsistent". His estimates for Greek losses are as follows: the war dead included 20,000 military deaths in the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41, 60,000 non-Jewish civilians, 20,000 non-Jewish deportees, 60,000 Jews and 140,000 famine deaths during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II

I have included the figures of the Council for Reparations from Germany --Woogie10w (talk) 17:21, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Pointer: This issue has become political hot potato in 2014. DEDICATED PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED TO SEEK GERMAN WAR REPARATIONS [1]

Here on Wikipedia we need maintain a neutral POV and present both sides of the argument, please see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view--Woogie10w (talk) 17:31, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Not done for now: Based on Woogie10ws comments here and edits made to the article, I choose to close the request, and suggest that discussion is continued as needed. Sam Sailor ^Sing 18:41, 22 March 2014 (UTC)