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Of the children, 81 were later killed in gas vans at the Chemno extermination camp, During the Cold War, the West German government estimated the death toll at 2.225 million[14] in the wartime evacuations, forced labor in the Soviet Union as well as the post war expulsions. [168] Rdiger Overmans believes that "on the basis of factual individual data, shown before, the thesis of the Canadian James Bacque cannot be supported". According to Krivosheev "The figures in the Wehrmacht documents relating to Germany's war losses are therefore contradictory and unreliable. The foreword to the book was written by German President. [70][71] On 5 August 1942, British foreign secretary Anthony Eden issued a declaration that Germany had destroyed the Munich Agreement. [50], Hitler ordered an investigation and reprisals on the day of the assassination attempt, suggesting that Himmler send SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski to Prague. [11] However, the position of the German government, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education and the German Red Cross is that the death toll in the expulsions is between 2.0 and 2.5 million civilians. What happened when the Nazi generals turned themselves in, 75 Klein, whose gun was still jammed, ran into the shop and collided with Gabk in the doorway. )[64] Adolf Oplka and Josef Bublk were killed in the prayer loft after a two-hour gun battle, and Kubi was reportedly found unconscious after the battle and died shortly after from his injuries. The research project involved taking a statistical sample of the confidential German military personnel records located at the (WASt). Page 61", Imperial War Museum- German and Italian Prisoners of War in the United Kingdom, United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Summary Report, Germany and the Second World War, Volume 9, Part 1 Page 475 By Germany (West). Civilian bombing deaths (not including refugees) of 436,000 include 350,000 dead, 54,000 died of wounds and 32,000 missing and presumed dead. Monthly Field Army (Feldheer) casualties September 1939 to November 1944, Notes: Figures include Waffen SS, Austrians and conscripted ethnic Germans. The Germans were unable to locate the attackers until Karel urda of the Out Distance sabotage group turned himself in to the Gestapo and gave up the names of the team's local contacts for the bounty of one million Reichsmarks. Highest rank officer Notes: Figures include Waffen SS, Austrians, conscripted ethnic Germans, Volkssturm, and other paramilitary forces. [48] Based on his research, Rdiger Overmans believes that the deaths of 459,000 dead POWs can be confirmed in the files of Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt)(including 363,000 in the USSR). [3][4], Civilian deaths during the war include air raid deaths, estimates of German civilians killed only by Allied strategic bombing have ranged from around 350,000[5][6] to 500,000. We are Czechs! [48], Heydrich's condition while hospitalized was not documented in detail, but he was not noted to have developed any of the distinctive symptoms associated with botulism, which have a gradual onset, invariably including paralysis, with death generally resulting from respiratory failure. [45] Another suggestion was that Heydrich died of a massive pulmonary embolism (probably a fat embolism). [43] The statistics of the German High Command put casualties of the volunteer forces from the Soviet Union up until 1/31/1945 at: 83,307 dead; 57,258 missing and 118,127 wounded[44].