Editing Nazi Germany (section)

==== German casualties ====
{{Main|German casualties in World War II}}
{{Further|World War II casualties}}
[[File:The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B14736.jpg|thumb|German refugees in Bedburg, near [[Kleve]], 19 February 1945|alt=]]
Estimates of the total German war dead range from 5.5 to 6.9&nbsp;million persons.{{sfn|Hubert|1998|p=272}} A study by German historian [[Rüdiger Overmans]] puts the number of German military dead and missing at 5.3&nbsp;million, including 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders.{{sfn|Overmans|2000|p=Bd. 46}} [[Richard Overy]] estimated in 2014 that about 353,000 civilians were killed in Allied air raids.{{sfn|Overy|2014|pp=306–307}} Other civilian deaths include 300,000 Germans (including Jews) who were victims of Nazi political, racial, and religious persecution{{sfn|''Germany Reports''|1961|p=62}} and 200,000 who were murdered in the [[Aktion T4|Nazi euthanasia program]].{{sfn|Bundesarchiv, "Euthanasie" im Nationalsozialismus}} Political courts called ''[[Sondergericht]]e'' sentenced some 12,000 members of the [[German resistance to Nazism|German resistance]] to death, and civil courts sentenced an additional 40,000 Germans.{{sfn|Hoffmann|1996|p=xiii}} [[Rape during the occupation of Germany|Mass rapes of German women]] also took place.{{sfn|Beevor|2002|pp=31–32, 409–412}}