Monday 9 November 2020

Remembrance

On Remembrance Sunday we tend to think of plucky Britain, fighting on alone against all odds, but three quarters of all German casualties were on the Eastern Front, which sapped German materiel and prevented Hitler crossing the Channel.

I came across this chart yesterday, which is somewhat sobering:


It shows the percentage of the population, by country, that died in WWII, along with the absolute numbers.


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