70 years later, and it's increasingly hard to fathom the extent of the devastation wrought during World War II. Conservative estimates place the overall global death toll -- soldiers and civilians -- at around 60 million. Some, though, reckon that figure is likely far higher.
Reddit user lanson15 created this map, depicting what percentage of a nation's population died during the conflict. The countries marked in gray are ones where there was insufficient data. To be sure, the map draws on numbers listed in Wikipedia, but despite its potential inaccuracies, it gives an interesting snapshot of where the war extracted its steepest price.
[Don't forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler.]
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Map: The countries that suffered the most during World War II - The Washington Post