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Müller-Hillebrand maintained that the OKW figures did not present an accurate accounting of German casualties because they understated losses in the final months of the war on the eastern front and post war deaths of POW in Soviet captivity. According to Müller-Hillebrand actual irrecoverable losses in the war were between 3.3 and 4.5 million ...
The Eastern Front was the largest and bloodiest theatre of World War II. It is generally accepted as being the deadliest conflict in human history, with over 30 million killed as a result. [6] The German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. [121]
German casualties based on statistics collected during the war were 10,570 KIA, ... The Allied casualties at the Eastern Front total at 8,900,000 deaths.
These figures include Austria and foreign nationals of German ancestry in eastern Europe.) [386] German military casualties (1945) The casualty figures compiled by the German High Command (OKW) as of January 31, 1945 put total military losses at 2,001,399 dead, 1,902,704 missing and POW held by Allies and 4,429,875 wounded. [387]
By January 1945, what had been the Eastern Front was now controlled by the Soviets, whose military might was aimed at the German capital of Berlin. [344] Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945 in order to avoid capture by the Soviets, and the war in Europe finally ended with the total defeat and capitulation of Nazi Germany in May 1945. [345]
Throughout 1942 German casualties totaled around 1.9 million personnel, [10] and by the start of 1943 the Wehrmacht was around 470,000 men below full strength on the Eastern Front. [11] At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa , the Wehrmacht was equipped with around 3,300 tanks; [ 12 ] by 23 January only 495 tanks, mostly of older types ...
The Soviet Union destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. [17] The overall engagement is the largest defeat in German military history, with around 450,000 German casualties, [18] while 300,000 other German soldiers were cut off in the Courland Pocket.
By the time the Germans initiated the offensive, their force amounted to around 777,000 men, 2,451 tanks and assault guns (70 percent of the German armour on the Eastern Front) and 7,417 guns and mortars. [111] [131] [o] The Battle of Kursk would engulf more than 70% of Germany's military force on the Eastern Front. [44]