Eichmann in Jerusalem

The banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

Malaspina Great Books

Direct War Losses (WW II)

Country Military Civilian

USSR 13,000,000 7,000,000China 3,500,000 10,000,000Germany 3,500,000 3,800,000Poland 120,000 5,300,000Japan 1,700,000 380,000Yugoslavia 300,000 1,300,000Romania 200,000 465,000France 250,000 360,000British Empire 410,000 60,000Italy 330,000 80,000Hungary 120,000 280,000Czechoslovakia 10,000 330,000United States 407,000 -Canada 42,000 -

Totals 24,000,000 30,000,000

Indirect War Losses (Genocide)

German Reich (boundaries of 1938) 130,000 Austria 58,000 Belgium 26,000Belgium & Luxembourg 24,700Bulgaria 7,000Czechoslovakia 245,000 France 64,000 Greece 58,000 Hungary & Carpatho-Ukraine 300,000 Italy 8,000 Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia 200,000Luxembourg 3,000Netherlands 101,800 Norway 677 Polish-Soviet area 4,565,000Romania 220,000 Yugoslavia 54,000

Totals 5.0 – 5.8 million

Summary of Special Treatment

Kulmhof 150,000Belzec 600,000Sobidor 250,000Treblinka 750,000Lublin 50,000Auschwitz 1,500,000Shootings (General Government) 1,400,000 (Einsatzgroupen)Ghettos 600,000

Totals 5,300,000