Sorry. I should have also linked to the numbers. I got the external link from the Wehrmacht wiki article: http://www.feldgrau.com/stats.html http://www.feldgrau

Sorry. I should have also linked to the numbers. I got the external link from the Wehrmacht wiki article: http://www.feldgrau.com/stats.html http://www.feldgrau.com/stats.html That table has nothing older than 1939, but the number in 1939 was still pretty impressive. I also got confused, the 12,000,000 peak is directly comparable to the recent 178,000 since "Wehrmacht" was the previous name for the complete "unified" armed forces, not just the army. 1939: 4,722,000+ 1940: 6,600,000+ 1941: 8,154,000+ 1942: 9,580,000+ 1943: 11,280,000+ 1944: 12,070,000+ 1945: 9,701,000+