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German soldiers in cattle cars on their way to the Western Front in France
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Robert Whalen reports that after four years of battle, 2,037,000 German soldiers had died; 4,300,000 were wounded; and 974,977 reported missing or wounded. Total casualties: 7,311,977.
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| The boxcars that transported Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust were the same boxcars that transported German soldiers to their deaths in the First World War. |
Jews from the Lodz ghetto board
trains for the death camp at Chelmno |
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Jews killed during the Holocaust: approximately 5,933,900 (Dawidowicz).
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