But that’s incorrect. Over 20 million were Chinese, which had no direct conflict with the Nazis but instead fought the Japanese (and had their own brutal civil war). In a weird twist of history a Nazi party member named John Rabe helped save 250,000 civilians in China during the Japanese rape of Nanking. It would be more accurate to say that the total 70 million dead were due to Axis aggression, not just the Nazis.