how many ww2 veterans are still alive?
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Loads, ask again in 20 years and it will be easier to count.
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Good question. I would say more people can work during war time.
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over 3000 non military people were killed on 9-11. Is it worth it. On D-Day WWII over 7,000 were killed on one single day. WAS IT WORTH IT.
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Well, most of the WWII vets I've talked to have seen plenty of it. And often inflicted a fair amount of it, too. Like many soldiers, they were quite young and thrust into a situation they never could've imagined. Almost every vet will have a story about some kind of gruesome death they've witnessed. That's the reality of war.
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over 45 million. world war 2 was because Hitler was being a jack ass.
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Don't know, but I have read that the total number people alive today is far greater than the total number of people who have ever lived and died.\n\nThe short answer is; everyone who has survived birth.
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The exact number of people killed by the Nazi regime may never be known, but scholars, using a variety of methods of determining the death toll, have generally agreed upon common range of the number of victims. Recently declassified British and Soviet documents have indicated the total may be somewhat higher than previously believed[20]. However, the following estimates are considered to be highly reliable. The estimates:\n\n5.1–6.0 million Jews, including 3.0–3.5 million Polish Jews\n1.8 –1.9 million non-Jewish Poles (includes all those killed in executions or those that died in prisons, labor, and concentration camps, as well as civilians killed in the 1939 invasion and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising) \n500,000–1.2 million Serbs killed by Croat Nazis \n200,000–800,000 Roma & Sinti \n200,000–300,000 people with disabilities \n80,000–200,000 Freemasons [23] \n100,000 communists \n10,000–25,000 homosexual men \n2,000 Jehovah's Witnesses \nRaul Hilberg, in the third edition of his ground-breaking three-volume work, The Destruction of the European Jews, estimates that 5.1 million Jews died during the Holocaust. This figure includes "over 800,000" who died from "Ghettoization and general privation;" 1,400,000 who were killed in "Open-air shootings;" and "up to 2,900,000" who perished in camps. Hilberg estimates the death toll in Poland at "up to 3,000,000."[24] Hilberg's numbers are generally considered to be a conservative estimate, as they generally include only those deaths for which some records are available, avoiding statistical adjustment.[25] British historian Martin Gilbert used a similar approach in his Atlas of the Holocaust, but arrived at a number of 5.75 million Jewish victims, since he estimated higher numbers of Jews killed in Russia and other locations.[26]\n\n \nMap titled "Jewish Executions Carried Out by Einsatzgruppe A" from the December 1941 Jäger Report by the commander of a Nazi death squad. Marked "Secret Reich Matter," the map shows the number of Jews shot in the Baltic region, and reads at the bottom: "the estimated number of Jews still on hand is 128,000". Estonia is marked as judenfrei ("free of Jews").Lucy Davidowicz used pre-war census figures to estimate that 5.934 million Jews died. Using official census counts may cause an underestimate since many births and deaths were not recorded in small towns and villages. Another reason some consider her estimate too low is that many records were destroyed during the war. Her listing of deaths by country is available in the article about her book, The War Against the Jews.[27]\n\nOne of the most authoritative German scholars of the Holocaust, Prof. Wolfgang Benz of the Technical University of Berlin, cites between 5.3 and 6.2 million Jews killed in Dimension des Volksmords (1991), while Yisrael Gutman and Robert Rozett estimate between 5.59 and 5.86 million Jewish victims in their Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1990).[28]\n\nThe following groups of people were also killed by the Nazi regime, but there is little evidence that the Nazis planned to systematically target them for genocide as was the case for the groups above.\n\n3.5–6 million other Slavic civilians \n2.5–4 million Soviet POWs \n1–1.5 million political dissidents \nAdditionally, the Nazis' allies, the Ustaša regime in Croatia conducted its own campaign of mass extermination against the Serbs in the areas which it controlled, resulting in the deaths of at least 330,000–390,000 Serbs.\n\nmore info:
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most of the people who are dead have remained so
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only the dead have seen the end of war
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don't waste time defending this proposition. the fact is that all wars have survivors, even nuclear war. I'd suggest that your essay should chronicle progression of the mass murder that commenced in 1938 and continued through August 1945, with the extermination of 35 - 50 million (no one knows exact casualty totals) people during WW II. Billions survived this catastrophe, and billions will survive the next one.  Nonsense aphorisms such as the one your essay is to explore seem sensible, but in fact serve no purpose other than to distract rational persons from viewing their world in terms of its history and likely - even if dark - future. good luck!
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wrong:actually,360,000iraqis\nSORRY!\nactually,\nBy Will Dunham. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 655,000 Iraqis have died from the Iraq war, exceeding previous estimates, researchers
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approximately 5.6 million, or 16%, of its pre-war population of 34.8 million died.
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Well there are a few. My Grandfather (my papa) he was in the Military. My dad, he passed away on May 29,1992. So, this Memorial Day it will have been 14 years since he died. He will be greatly missed. I love him very much and it is still so hard to deal with. And of course I always think of the men and women who have died for us and the men and women over there right now.My prayers are with all the family's of the men and women serving today.\nBy The BradAusmusls.....GO ASTROS!!!!!
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8th air force has records of most of the crews in wwII. There is a web site. Look it upon google or yahoo.
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That was over 90 years ago and then men who served must be well over 100 years of age. But since it was so long ago, I'm sure the Army's in Europe weren't very organized at the time. And there is little knowledge of who served. But there is less than 50 still living within the US. So I would say maybe around 100 (and that's pushing it!)\nProud Great Grand-Daughter of Cpl. Capo-WWI
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I met an veteran from Market Garden 9 years ago who had a 10 year old son, so would be 19 now.\nMy dad also fought at Arhem and my school mates didn't believe me that my Father fought in the war, ( as he was 46 when I was born).
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54,229 deaths\n\n103,284 wounded