Methodology [edit]. Life expectancy equals the average number of years a person born in a given country would live if mortality rates at each age were to remain constant in the future. The life expectancy is shown separately for males and females, as well as a combined figure.
Police report divulges Rommel did not die of âheart attackâ, he committed suicide. SHARE:FacebookTwitter. Nazis attempted to cover up the forced suicide of Erwim Rommel with a âheart attackâ after being implicated in a failed assassination of his master, Adolf Hitler. A police report recently discovered debunks initial assumptions that surround the death of famed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Half a million German Army soldiers died in the (failed) battle of Stalingrad alone, with another 100,000 taken prisoner. But for the USSR, victory came at an even steeper price, as the Soviets lost nearly twice as many soldiers as the Nazis in that battle alone. In all, at least 8.7 million Soviet soldiers died in World War II (Halloran notes that some estimates place the tally as high as 14 million). That number becomes all the more eye-popping when compared to the losses incurred by other countries.