A tranquil view of war graves in Kanchanaburi's beautifully landscaped cemetery.

The majority of WWII dead weren’t soldiers.

An estimated 60–75 million died; about 67% to 80% were civilians.

World War II: Most Victims Were Civilians

Soviet partisans hanged by the German army. The Russian Academy of Sciences reported in 1995 that civilian victims in the Soviet Union at German hands totalled 13.7 million dead, twenty percent of the 68 million people in the occupied Soviet Union.

Why civilians bore the brunt.

Genocides including the Holocaust, massacres, starvation, disease, bombings, and battle zones killed millions.

World War II: Most Victims Were Civilians

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