Baltenstein wrote:Kazarogkai wrote:
The worst place you can be though out of all countries during the war was Estonia. Not only was it brutally occupied twice but the highest estimates show as much as 20% of the population died. Mostly civilians I presume, but honestly dying as a civilian(in my view) doesn't sound a whole lot better than dying as a soldier.
The country with the highest percentage of civilian deaths (25 % of the prewar population) is usually estimated to be Belarus.
Belarus wasn't an independent country, it was a constituent republic within the USSR as such it's casualties are counted alongside the rest of the USSR casualties.
I was counting overall deaths.