Thanks for the post, but I have seen other stats than what Wikepedia has.
Wikipedia's stats
are consistent with others.
One site compiles them,
so you can check out
the range of "accepted" deaths.
Wikipedia's fair.
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Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century
France
Military:
Ellis: 92,000 (1940), 30,000 (in exile)
Compton's: 166,195
Keegan: 200,000
Eckhardt: 200,000
Info. Please: 201,568
Small & Singer: 210,000 (w/Allies), 2,500 (Vichy, w/Axis)
HarperCollins: 210,671
Britannica: 213,324 (incl. 1,200 Vichy)
Davies: 213,324
Clodfelter: 245,000 incl...
213,324 KIA, which incl. 2,653 Vichy
Encarta: 250,000
Urlanis: 250,000
KIA, 1939-40 War: 92,000
KIA, Free French, 1940-45: 58,000
Resistance: 20,000
Alsatian French conscripts KIA w/German army: 40,000
POW Deaths: 40,000
Civilian:
HarperCollins: 173,260
Britannica: 350,000
Davies: 350,000
Clodfelter: 350,000
Urlanis: 350,000
From bombing: 60,000
Nazi terror: 90,000
Forced labor in Germany: 40,000
German concentration camps: 160,000
Encarta: 360,000
Keegan: 400,000
Eckhardt: 450,000
Ellis: 470,000