300,000 is more than the number of people who died in WWII??? A simple search on how many died in WWII finds "Most suggest that some 75 million people died in the war, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians. " That's from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/casualties-of-world-war-ii/.

Starting the article with a statement that is clearly false is a bad misstep.