Editing Franco-Prussian War (section)

===Casualties===
The Germans deployed a total of 33,101 officers and 1,113,254 men into France, of whom they lost 1,046 officers and 16,539 enlisted men killed in action. Another 671 officers and 10,050 men died of their wounds, for total battle deaths of 28,306. Disease killed 207 officers and 11,940 men, with [[typhoid]] accounting for 6,965. 4,009 were missing and presumed dead; 290 died in accidents and 29 committed suicide. Among the missing and captured were 103 officers and 10,026 men. The wounded amounted to 3,725 officers and 86,007 men.{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|p=187}}

French battle deaths were 77,000, of which 41,000 were killed in action and 36,000 died of wounds. More than 45,000 died of sickness. Total deaths were 138,871, with 136,540 being suffered by the army and 2,331 by the navy. The wounded totaled 137,626; 131,000 for the army and 6,526 for the navy. French prisoners of war numbered 383,860. In addition, 90,192 French soldiers were interned in Switzerland and 6,300 in Belgium.{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|p=187}}

During the war the [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] (ICRC) established an international tracing agency in [[Basel]] for prisoners of that war. The holdings of the "Basel Agency" were later transferred to the ICRC headquarters in [[Geneva]] and integrated into the [[International Committee of the Red Cross archives|ICRC archives]], where they are accessible today.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 April 2016 |title=Agency Archives |url=https://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/individual-archives/ |access-date=28 July 2020 |website=International Committee of the Red Cross – CROSS-files}}</ref>