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The casualties suffered by the Western Allies in making this contribution to the defeat of the Wehrmacht were relatively light, 164,590–195,576 killed/missing, 537,590 wounded, and 78,680 taken prisoner, [64] [65] a total loss of 780,860 to 811,846 to inflict a loss of 2.8 million prisoners on the German army.
A civilian casualty occurs when a civilian is killed or injured by non-civilians, mostly law enforcement officers, military personnel, rebel group forces, or terrorists. Under the law of war, it refers to civilians who perish or suffer wounds as a result of wartime acts. The term is generally applied to situations in which violence is committed ...
A typical village war memorial to soldiers killed in World War I. National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, is a memorial dedicated to all Americans who served in World War I. The Liberty Memorial was dedicated on 1 November 1921, when the supreme Allied commanders spoke to a crowd of more than 100,000 people.
5 March: 4 Yugoslav policemen killed in an ambush by KLA in Prekaz. 5–7 March: Attack on Prekaz. Yugoslav victory. 28 militants and 30 civilians killed by VJ. 7-10 March: Battle of Llapushnik KLA victory. 24 March: First Battle of Glodjane KLA victory. Late March-December: Llapusha-South Drenica Front.
The Bulgarian occupation of Serbia during World War I started in Autumn 1915 following the invasion of Serbia by the combined armies of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria. After Serbia 's defeat and the retreat of its forces across Albania, the country was divided into Bulgarian and Austro-Hungarian occupation zones .
23 September 1941 – 12 June 1944. Kruševac. 1,642. German war crime [12] Mačva massacres. 24 September – 9 October 1941. Mačva region. c. 6,000. Serbian civilians killed in reprisals during anti-Partisan operations led by German, Ustaše and Hungarian forces.
Almost 1.5% of the Ottoman population, or approximately 300,000 people of the Empire's 21 million population in 1914, [1] were estimated to have been killed during the war. Of the total 300,000 casualties, 250,000 are estimated to have been military fatalities, with civilian casualties numbering over 50,000. In addition to the 50,000 civilian ...
The Great Retreat, also known in Serbian historiography as the Albanian Golgotha [4] ( Serbian: Албанска голгота, Albanska golgota ), refers to the retreat of the Royal Serbian Army through the mountains of Albania during the 1915–16 winter of World War I . In late October 1915, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria launched a ...