READ FULL STORY - "The most destructive war in human history claimed between 40 and 50 million lives, displacing tens of millions of people"

The most destructive war in human history claimed between 40 and 50 million lives, displaced tens of millions of people, and cost more than $1 trillion to prosecute.

The financial cost to the United States alone was significant. Nearly one-third of homes in several countries were damaged or destroyed.

In Germany’s 49 largest cities, nearly 40 percent of homes were seriously damaged or destroyed. In the Western Soviet Union, the destruction was even greater.

Millions of European souls perished from war-related causes between 1939 and 1945, more than half of them noncombatants. Millions were killed, almost all of them civilians. Soviet deaths totaled between 25 million and 27 million, the vast majority civilians as well. million Jews were killed, almost all of them civilians. Soviet deaths totaled between 25 million and 27 million, the vast majority civilians as well.