# of Soviet civilians under occupation at the peak of Nazi rule?

Cmyers1980

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How many Soviet citizens lived in Nazi occupied territories during the peak of Nazi rule during WW2? What total percentage of the Soviet Union's population was in the occupied territories?
 

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I don't think more than 40 million as they evacuated some 27 million from the occupied areas.
 
How many Soviet citizens lived in Nazi occupied territories during the peak of Nazi rule during WW2? What total percentage of the Soviet Union's population was in the occupied territories?

~1/3rd of the Pre-War population inhabited the area seized, which works out too 50-60 million people. Take into account that, as Wiking noted, that nearly 30 million people were evacuated (or just fled) eastward and the real number under occupation is probably around 20-30 million.
 
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