Talk:World War II casualties/Archives/2013/August

Czechoslovakia

I have a problem with CS losses. Population does include German minority but losses doesn't. I know that total amount of dead Germans in Czechoslovakia is approximately 250 000 (40 civilians and 210 000 soldiers). I think it is not good to include Germans in population and not in losses and do a percentage of population from it. On Czech wiki we neither include Germans to losses and population. Because they are already included in German losses. --Bedivere.cs (talk) 17:13, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

German losses are included with Germany, also in the case of Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Romania. What you propose would mean moving 7 million Germans from those countries to Germany. This is already done at see World War II casualties#Third Reich --Woogie10w (talk) 19:43, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

The real problem here is how many ethnic Germans lived outside of German borders. German sources have higher figures than the Polish and Czech sources. Some of these people remained in Poland and Czechoslovakia after the war. Also remember that the figures of German losses are disputed. There is no final and correct answer on that issue.--Woogie10w (talk) 19:53, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

The issue you bring up is a can of worms, the USSR population is 168.5 million in 1939, however they annexed territory with 20 million people. The Poles count 2 million dead in the annexed territories, the Russians count them with Soviet losses. There is no right or wrong source in this case. We need to explain the differences when these reliable sources are in conflict.--Woogie10w (talk) 20:11, 6 August 2013 (UTC)