There weren’t 1.7 million dead. There were 1.014 million dead across the whole of the ex-Yu. As Milovan Djilas admitted and as the man who came up with the number admitted (both Serbs), the numbers were inflated not only to get more reparations out of Germany, but for propaganda purposes as well.
Hudson K. (2003). Breaking the South Slav Dream: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia. p. 37.