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Prisoners in World War II Numbered in The Millions

The total number of men taken prisoner in World War II may never be accurately known, but for all the belligerents it may have exceeded 15,000,000, not counting those involved in the final surrender of the armed forces of Germany, Japan, and their satellites. The Western Allies captured more than 4,500,000 enemy troops, all but about 50,000 of them in the European and Mediterranean fighting, and disarmed several millions more when the Axis countries surrendered. The total captured by the Russians, which included large numbers of Hungarian and Romanian troops, was probably of the order of 4,000,000 to 5,000,000. Germany and her satellites suffered the greatest number of prisoner-of-war casualties, the losses being especially high in the fighting in Russia and in the final campaigns in Western Europe. Several hundred Italians were Allied prisoners-of-war at one time. The Germans took about five million prisoners. Not less than 1,500,000 Frenchman were held as prisoners-of-war from 1940 until near the end of the war. (Source Unknown).