In World War II, a German soldier was killed in a war between the Russian, British, French, and American armies that was repeated over and over again. His body was caught on his back by a tank's The corpse was caught on its back on the tank's capillary.

 　　In World War II, a German soldier was killed in a war between the Russian, British, French, and American armies that was repeated over and over again. A German soldier was killed and his body was caught on his back on the caterpillar of a tank (details unknown). It was presumed that the U.S. military photographed it in color. In World War II, some 75 million people died worldwide, including some 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians. Many of these deaths were due to deliberate genocide, massacres, mass bombings, disease, and starvation.

　Statistics on German military casualties during World War II are mixed. Wartime military casualty figures compiled by the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW: Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) through January 31, 1945, are often cited by military historians when describing individual operations of the war. A study by German historian Rüdiger Overmans concluded that the total number of German military casualties was much higher than originally reported by the German High Command, 5.3 million, including 900,000 men recruited from outside Germany's 1937 borders in Austria and East Central Europe. The German government reported that its records listed 4.3 million dead and missing military personnel.

 Air raids were the main cause of civilian deaths. Estimates of German civilians killed solely by Allied strategic bombing range from about 350,000 to 500,000. Estimates of civilian deaths due to German flight and expulsion, Soviet war crimes, and German forced labor in the Soviet Union are disputed and range from 500,000 to over 2 million. According to the German government's search service, there were 300,000 German victims (including Jews) of Nazi racial, political, and religious persecution. This statistic does not include the 200,000 disabled Germans killed in the euthanasia programs of Operations T4 and 14f13.

　In January 1946, a life insurance company estimated German deaths at 3,250,000, referring to the entire German army, including those drafted outside German borders in 1937, 1951. German military losses were assessed on the basis of a demographic analysis of the European population for the period 1939-1947 in the League of Nations Statistical Yearbook. German soldier losses were estimated at 3,500,000. the West German government in November 1949 estimated German military losses at 3,250,000 (1,650,000 dead and 1,600,000 missing) based on a demographic analysis of the population within its borders in 1937. according to a demographic analysis by the West German government in 1960, Wehrmacht total troop losses were 4,440,000.