From january first to may eighth, when the war ended in europe, ten thousand a day on average. That is almost twice as many people as the united states lost at the battle of antietam. Historian nel ferguson says the german military loses more soldiers in the last year of the war than the entire rest of the war put together. In his book, how wars end, authur gideon rose says that every month in ninet forty five, between a hundred thousand and 250 thousand non combatants in asia were dying again every month due to the actions of Japan.