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Apart from the above major parties, other smaller countries were also involved in the war. The Axis countries also included Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Thailand, while the Allies included Albania, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Ethiopia, Greece, Iran, India, Iraq, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. These countries had to voluntarily join the war because they had no other choice.

n the following report, the number of dead and wounded of both sides is being given respectively (we have combined these two numbers in this report)

Axis countries

The country

population

The dead and wounded

Germany

8½ crores

70 lakh

Japan

7 crores

30 lakh

Italy

4 crore 36 lakh

2 lakh 50 thousand

Bulgaria

70 lakhs

50 thousand

Finland

40 lakhs

42 thousand

Hungary

One crore

40 thousand
The reader will know from this statement that the number of Russian killed and wounded in this war alone was greater than in any other war the world had ever fought. After Russia comes the number of Germany, Poland, Japan and China... Totally more than 50 million people were killed or injured in this war. Of these, 75 percent were killed in regular combat, while collateral damage is estimated at 25 percent. The financial cost of this war was estimated at 10 trillion US dollar.

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