[52] Hitler favoured killing 10,000 politically unreliable Czechs, but after he consulted Himmler, the idea was dropped because Czech territory was an important industrial zone for the German military, and indiscriminate killing could reduce the productivity of the region. Keegan, John, Second World War, Penguin Books , 1990, Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder, Transaction Publishers, 1992 Table A. Hermann Kinder, Werner Hilgemann & Ernest A. Menze, Ishikida, Miki (2005). [70][71] On 5 August 1942, British foreign secretary Anthony Eden issued a declaration that Germany had destroyed the Munich Agreement. If they were not caught by then, the Germans threatened to spill far more blood, believing that this threat would be enough to force a potential informant to sell out the culprits. They estimated 635,000 total deaths, 500,000 due to the strategic bombing of Germany and an additional 135,000 killed in air raids during the 1945 flight and evacuations on the eastern front. As the car passed, Heydrich made an ultimately fatal error; instead of ordering his driver to accelerate, he stood up and drew his Luger pistol, yelling at the driver to halt. Ambrose maintains that the figure of 800,000 POW missing from the US records was a bookkeeping error, that many POW were released and no records were maintained. Official statistics published by the West German government 1956 put the death toll due to air raids at 635,000. A third plan was to kill Heydrich in Prague. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. One is by Jan Vytal, from Czech country band Greenhorns, called Battledress (2006). The operation was initiated by Frantiek Moravec, head of the Czechoslovak intelligence services, with the knowledge and approval of Bene, almost as soon as Heydrich was appointed Protector. Certainly a top Nazi anyways. According to Overmans there are no reliable figures to breakout the national origin for the figure of 900,000 men of German ancestry conscripted into the Waffen-SS[39] Overmans maintains that records of the Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) surveyed only persons of German ancestry "deutsche nach Abstammung"[39] However Polish sources maintain that during the war the Germans forcibly conscripted ethnic Poles into the German military. [63] The casualties suffered by the Western Allies in making this contribution to the defeat of the Wehrmacht were relatively light, 164,590195,576 killed/missing, 537,590 wounded, and 78,680 taken prisoner,[64][65] a total loss of 780,860 to 811,846 to inflict a loss of 2.8 million prisoners on the German army. [163] The German government currently places the ultimate blame for the mass flight and expulsion on the wartime policy of the Nazis in Eastern Europe. The operatives who carried out the assassination were soldiers of the Czechoslovak Army who were prepared and trained by the British Special Operations Executive with the approval of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, led by Edvard Bene. Heydrich returned fire and ducked behind the stalled tram. What happened when the Nazi generals turned themselves in, 75 Mller-Hillebrand maintained that the OKW figures did not present an accurate accounting of German casualties because they understated losses in the final months of the war on the eastern front and post war deaths of POW in Soviet captivity. by B5N2KATE 19 Apr 2008, 16:38, Return to German Strategy & General German Military Discussion. Reinhard Heydrich had been the chief of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) since September 1939 and was appointed acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia after replacing Konstantin von Neurath in September 1941. Laurent Binet's novel HHhH (Himmlers Hirn heit Heydrich, or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich"), published in 2010 by Grasset & Fasquelle, chronicles the lives of Reinhard Heydrich and his assassins Jozef Gabk and Jan Kubi. WebOn September 29-30, 1941, SS and German police units and their auxiliaries, under the jurisdiction of Einsatzgruppe C, murdered the Jewish population of Kiev at Babi Yar, a The research project involved taking a statistical sample of the confidential German military personnel records located at the (WASt). General Lesley McNair: His Tragic Death During Operation Cobra Never! Nineteen employees at Deutsche Dienststelle assisted in the survey. WebGreene is the highest-ranking officer to have been killed in either Iraq or Afghanistan. [32], Monthly German military casualties at point of death per Overmans study. He was a nazi, which makes him a bad person already. [39] A German wartime report on the incident stated, "[d]eath occurred as a consequence of lesions in the vital parenchymatous organs caused by bacteria and possibly by poisons carried into them by bomb splinters". The Japanese Relief Bureau's army dead figure for this battlefront is 435,600. Figure includes deaths actually recorded from May 1939 until June 1944 and from January to October 1946. The Japanese Relief Bureau's army dead figure for this battlefront is 163,000. by Lornito Uriarte Mahinay Jr. 19 Apr 2008, 11:54, Post Of the 2 million presumed dead, Overmans believes 700,000 died in Soviet custody without being reported as POWs. On the other hand, Overmans states that "300,000 soldiers per month" (p.275), "that is, 10,000 men per day" (p.279, cf. Left: McNair as Army Ground Forces commander. For instance, in the battle of the Ruhr Pocket, there were about 10,000 fatalities on the German side (including prisoners of war in German captivity, foreign forced laborers, Volkssturm militia and unarmed civilians),[67] whereas about 317,000 Germans surrendered. Bevlkerungsbilanzen fr die deutschen Vertreibungsgebiete 1939/50. The operation was also intended to demonstrate to senior Nazis that they were not beyond the reach of Allied forces and the resistance groups they supported.[5]. by tigre 13 Feb 2008, 22:47, Post [166] The former President of Germany Joachim Gauck and the former German chancellor Angela Merkel have voiced support for the Center Against Expulsions. Ullstein Taschenbuch vlg., 2002. Highest rank officer by tigre 10 Feb 2008, 14:16, Post
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