“Finally, how disheartening and infuriating that 83% of all deaths were Allied, versus just 17% Axis.”
IIRC most of the WWII casualties on the chart in Europe resulted from Hitler attacking Stalin before the US got into the war...right when Hitler was on the verge of invading England!
The US and UK had to bail out Stalin as an “Ally” and it was touch and go as to whether England would survive the German Submarine blockade right into 1943!
In China, I suspect that Japanese butchering Chinese from 1937 on until to end of the war added up to a lot of bodies given the dithering the General Chiang and having to fight the Commies under Mao at the same time!
Yes, and vice-versa, with neither of them in the least averse to shedding the blood of millions of innocents--indeed, they reveled in it. If you hold the power of life and death over millions, and can impose death on them with seeming impunity, then by golly you're pretty darned important, aren't you? A god among gods.
Japanese butchering Chinese from 1937 on
Yep.
Note that by far, Poland had the highest percentage of her population killed by the war.