- The death of some 60 million people, between the military and civilians. Among them, the millions of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the disabled and opponents who were murdered in the concentration and extermination camps of Nazi Germany.
- After the war, hundreds of thousands more people died of hunger and various diseases. In Japan, thousands of people died after 1945, affected by radiation from the bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- There were intense migratory movements, both of people displaced by the war seeking to return home, and of Europeans who settled in America or returned to Europe when the struggles for decolonization began in Asia and Africa.
Luis Fernando Ruiz Valdez 