re: Best WWII documentary on netflix?

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70 million dead in 6 years sounds like a bad horror/scifi movie.

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And dying in combat was pretty merciful - that's a LOT of starvation/exposure deaths and a good bit of those were civilians.

Recall how self-sufficient the U.S. is (and certainly was) from a food, energy, etc., standpoint. Because of maximum effort for the war (and this was the case for almost every warring country) - even in the U.S. we had to ration necessities like food and gasoline.

Imagine smaller countries - heavily dependent on trade to keep their economies balanced, having to shift production to arms, have trade interrupted by conflict, blockades and things like that - a lot of the civilians in those countries were just on their own (and this was with most military age, able-bodied men called up for service, so this was women, children, old folks, etc.) - and we haven't started talking about what happened to civilians in occupied areas, particularly by the Germans and Soviets.