A table of World War II casualties listed by nation.

This table from a Readers’ Digest book about World War II was preserved in a scrapbook by a collector of information about World War II. The table includes military and civilian deaths and shows the high tallies in both categories incurred by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Citation Information
Layden, Lawrence, “WWII casualties, table,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/aabc69922d1db1ca0560fb9eba41b2c8.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of College of Charleston Libraries via South Carolina Digital Library.

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