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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. [122]
965 aircraft (17th Air Army only – 3rd Ukrainian Front) Casualties and losses; German offensive (6–15 March 1945): Germany. Army Group South: 12,358 men [5] 31 tracked AFVs destroyed [5] 1 APC destroyed [6] Army Group F:: Soviet counter-offensive (16 March–15 April 1945): 30,000 killed; 125,000 captured [7] 1,345 tanks/assault guns lost ...
The Soviet Union destroyed 28 of the divisions of Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. [17] [18] The overall engagement is the largest defeat in German military history, with around 450,000 German casualties, [19] while 300,000 other German soldiers were cut off in the Courland Pocket.
[7] [8] Total German losses at the Battle of Stalingrad, excluding prisoners, were between 120,000 [9] and 150,000. [7] 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]
The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...
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] [130] [o] The Battle of Kursk would engulf more than 70% of Germany's military force on the Eastern Front. [44]
After fierce battles the Red Army units overcame the powerful German fortifications to the south of Lake Ladoga, and on 18 January 1943, the Volkhov Front's 372nd Rifle Division met troops of the 123rd Rifle Brigade of the Leningrad Front, opening a 10–12 km (6.2–7.5 mi) [verification needed] wide land corridor, which could provide some ...