• Austria 60,000
• Belgium 25,000
• Czechoslovakia 250,000
• France 70,000
• Germany 170,000
• Holland 104,000
• Hungary 550,000
• Italy 8,000
• Latvia 70,000
• Lithuania 140,000
• Poland 3,200,000
• Romania 270,000
• Soviet Union 1,000,000
• Yugoslavia 55,000

Sharing the Responsibility: The winners write the history

• Britain: Britain had one of the largest crowd of Hitler sympathizers in the world
• France: very few French volunteered to fight against Hitler
• Italy: there were no partisans fighting Mussolini before he started losing the war
• Poland: anti-semitism was already rampant before Hitler invaded Poland
• Romania: Romania was second only to Germany in killing Jews and Gypsies (200-300,000)
• Soviet Union: many Soviet citizens welcomed Hitler's army and enrolled to fight against Stalin
• Soviet Union: unprovoked attacks of Poland (1939), Finland (1939), Lithuania (1940), Latvia (1940), Estonia (1940), Bulgaria (1944), Japan (1945) and continued occupation of Ukraine
• USA: opposition to the war against Hitler was always high (the USA Congress passed a "neutrality act" after Hitler invaded Poland)

• Germany: many German officers, intellectuals and politicians plotted to overthrow Hitler throughout his reign, with two major assassination attempts in 1939 and 1944 (and one involving Rommel himself) On the other hand...

• The German invasion of France in 1940 caused minimal destruction to historical buildings and few civilian casualties, but the Allied invasion of Germany killed about one million German civilians and destroyed thousands of monuments
• The German blitz on Britain of 1939-40 killed 40,000 civilians, but the Allied bombing offensive of 1943-45 killed about 500,000 German civilians (British concentrated on night-time carpet bombing of German cities, which killed mostly civilians, whereas Americans concentrated on daytime bombing of industrial and military targets)
• Throughout the war, Stalin continued the purges he had begun in the 1930s, killing dissidents at the rate of one million per year (Robert Conquest's estimate, largely confirmed by the secret archives opened after the fall of the Soviet Union).
• Needless to say, the countries that were "liberated" by the Soviet Union were not any better off after the war than they had been during the German occupation: many more Polish, Czech and Hungarian citizens were killed by the communist regimes than had been killed by the pro-Hitler regimes.
• The Soviet Union lost 25 million people during the war, of which nine million were soldiers and 16 million were civilians; but that includes Russian civilians "as well as" non-Russian civilians of the other Soviet republics. Statistics tend to count the people killed by the Soviet Union inside the borders of the Soviet Union (i.e., Ukrainians, Lithuanians, etc) as if they had been killed by Hitler's troops, when they were in fact many of them were killed by Stalin's troops. For example, Ukraine (technically, a republic of the Soviet Union) suffered the greatest loss of human lives in the entire Europe (six million soldiers, four million civilians and 600,000 Jews), but many of them were killed by the Soviet army not by the German army. Both the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Galicia Division (or Divizia) fought against both Hitler and Stalin: they are all counted as "Soviet casualties" of the war.
• Another country that got away relatively easily from its war crimes is Japan. If one counts civilian casualties only, Japan's invasions were far more brutal than Germany's invasions. They killed, enslaved and raped millions of civilians. Japan was the only country to use chemical weapons, and it pioneered biological warfare by dropping plague, cholera and anthrax germs on Chinese villages. The number of people submitted to medical experiments in Japan's secret labs is much higher than the number of German prisoners who suffered the same fate. Nobody will ever know the number of "sex slaves" who were used (probably more than one million) and who died (sources say up to 90%). Prisoners of war in German camps were not mistreated (only 1% died) but prisoners of war in Japanese camps were used as slave labourers (and 31% died). If one includes China and all the occupied countries (Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, etc), Japan caused the death of about 12 million civilians, far more than those caused by Germany.

Sharing the Responsibility: where are the innocents?

• Italy: ally of Hitler
• Finland: ally of Hitler
• Hungary: ally of Hitler
• Romania: ally of Hitler
• Bulgaria: ally of Hitler
• Slovakia: ally of Hitler
• Croatia: ally of Hitler
• France: ally of Hitler
• Holland: 20,000 Dutchmen volunteered to serve in the SS
• Norway: thousands enrolled in the German army
• Switzerland: banker of Hitler, deported thousands of Jews
• Spain: did not participate, but supported Hitler
• Portugal: did not participate, but supported Hitler
• USA: declared netutrality after Germany started war (in may 1933, Roosevelt referred to Hitler and Mussolini as great reformers, and in 1935 he spoke of Mussolini as "that fine Italian gentleman")
• Sweden: let Germany use its territory in order to avoid an invasion
• Ireland: declared netutrality after Germany started war
• Soviet Union: secret pact with Hitler to split Poland

Sharing the Responsibility: Japan's holocausts

• 13/12/1937 - 3/1938: Rape of Nanking or "Nanjing Datusha" (369,366 Chinese killed, and 80,000 women raped)
• 18/4/1942: 250,000 Chinese civilians murdered in retaliation for Chinese help to USA airmen
• 23/12/1943 - 14/2/1944: Rape of Manila (all male Filipinos 14 and older condemmed to die, 100,000 killed)
• 1937-45: Forced prostitution or "jugun ianfu" (400,000 Chinese women, 250,000 Korean women, 90% death rate, largest and most deadly mass rape recorded in history)
• 1933: Shiro Ishii'ss medical experiments in Manchuria (victims vivisected while still alive)
• Only nation that used biological weapons in WW II
  • 1939: Shiro Ishii's biological experiments in Harbin, China (10,000 prisoners died)
  • 1940: Air bombing of Chinese villages with germs of bubonic plague (october 1940, Quzhou), cholera (1940, Yunnan), anthrax, etc (200,000 die)
• Only nation that used chemical weapons in WW II
• POW camps
  • 10 million Asians were used as slaves and only 5,000 or so survivors may still be alive.
  • Death rate in Japanese prisoner camps: 38.2 %
  • 25/4/1943-6/44: 16,000 PoWs and 80,000 Asian slave labourers died constructing the Thai-Burma railway
• Japan is responsible for the casualties of more than 20 millions in Asia