Hi Suin Kim,
Jan Mokrzycki (xuegxaw@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 13:38:54 GMT
here is an attempt at a reply to your questions:
1) I don't think any one can give a reasonable
estimate.Do you just mean soldiers? or do you include
civilians? Would you classify the child or elderly or
sick person who died whilst being deported, because
they could not stand the hunger or the cold as being
killed in the war? If you classify all these and many,
many others whose death was indirectly caused by the
war, the number goes to many, many millions, probably
approaching the figure of 50-100 million.
2)This information you should look up in one of the
many books on the subject.
3)In Europe, the Germans tortured, starved and killed
Jews, Gipsies, Jehova@s Witnesses, Poles, Russians and
in smaller numbers, French, Norwegians Dutch, Belgians,
Danes, British.
The Russians were no better where Poles, Ukrainians,
Lithuenians Latvians and the Germans were concerned.
I have probably missed some nations in the 2 lists
above. The point I am trying to make is that whilst
what happened to the Jews was awfull, many others
suffered as well.
Then don't forget the British and the Americans who
suffered atrocities at the hands of the Japanese. That
was not a pretty war and the Japanese camps defy
description.
And finally remember what was happening in China where
the Chinese were fighting the Japanese as well as
fighting each other!
It altogether was not a pleasant time to be alive in.
no matter where you lived.
Jan Mokrzycki.