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3 million people died from starvation and malnutrition due to man made famine. British army stored all grains in anticipation of Japanese invasion and exported food to allied forces in Middle east and Europe while local population starved. Amartya Sen (a Bengali) won Noble price in economics for welfare economics based on researching this famine, argues that there are no famines in democracy. He also pointed out that rice production in Bengal was higher in 1942 and 1943 vs. 1941 when there was no famine. Since Indian independance while India remains a poor country with wide-spread malnutrition there have been no famines vs. 25 major famines under British rule in India in which approx. 30-40 million Indians died
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Over 1.2 million human beings were executed, worked to death or otherwise killed at this Nazi concentration camp. Victims were mostly Jews, but did include gypsies, Poles and POWs.
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The US Holocaust Memorial Museum estimated casualties at this death camp to be between 700,000-850,000.
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Around 641,000 Soviet civilians died in the siege; one million died in the siege and subsequent evacuation combined.
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While the official death toll for this Soviet prison hovers around 500,000, some historians number the causalities as high as 1 million.
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600,000 were executed at this Nazi concentration camp.
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