That just prooves our soldiers dodge bullets better... jon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Falloon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: Re: Ouch > This is for Nick: > > Also on your 'Encarta' page I found this paragraph: Pay close attention to > the last sentence. > > "As well as this monstrous programme of extermination, the human cost of the > war was appalling for most of the belligerents. The USSR lost the most-at > least 20 million civilian and military personnel killed-including large > numbers of Russian prisoners deliberately starved to death in German > prisoner-of-war camps. Poland lost around a fifth of its civilian > population. Allied civilian losses were 44 million; Axis losses, 11 million. > The military deaths on both sides in Europe numbered 19 million, and in the > war against Japan, 6 million (which included a sizeable number of Allied > prisoners-of-war starved or tortured to death in Japanese forced-labour > camps in Burma and elsewhere). Only the United States was spared any > significant civilian losses, with 292,131 military deaths in battle and > 115,187 military deaths from other causes." > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
