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There were no 10x people. The Eastern Front statistics in wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki

There were no 10x people. The Eastern Front statistics in wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II): Strength Year Axis troops Allies troops 1941 3,767,000 2,680,000 1943 3,933,000 6,724,000 1945 1,960,000 6,410,000 Casualties and losses 5.1 million dead 8.7–10 million dead Note, also, of the total dead numbers the prisoners died in captivity is 637,000 vs 2,250,000–3,300,000. So the battlefield losses are close for both sides.

the_af 8y ago
Agreed. Not only that, military historians who don't base their knowledge of the Eastern Front solely on German sources, such as David Glantz [0] and Jonathan House [1], claim that when there was superiority of Soviet vs Germans numbers, it was because the Soviets successfully employed concentration of forces, which is a sound military tactic! That is, to the German caught unawares, it looks as if there is an endless "Asiatic horde" (which was the fascist propaganda to explain losses), but what is actually happening is that the Soviets are successfully concentrating their forces by thinning them down where they aren't needed, and achieving greater numbers where they are needed. Good operational warfare that is, and the Soviets excelled at this. Also, a lot of the time the Germans were unaware of Soviet reserves, so that fresh forces would appear when they weren't expecting them. The self-serving memories of Wehrmacht Generals mostly conveniently "forgot" about this, and so the myth of the endless Asiatic hordes was born. There's a fascinating YouTube video [2] where House (Jonathan, not Hugh Laurie!) dismantles the three usual German alibis of why they were defeated: 1- Hitler interfered too much and was the cause of every blunder. 2- "General Winter". 3- "The Asiatic Horde". ---- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Glantz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Glantz [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_House [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zinPbUZUHDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zinPbUZUHDE

the_af 8y ago

Agreed. Not only that, military historians who don't base their knowledge of the Eastern Front solely on German sources, such as David Glantz [0] and Jonathan House [1], claim that when there was superiority of Soviet vs Germans numbers, it was because the Soviets successfully employed concentration of forces, which is a sound military tactic! That is, to the German caught unawares, it looks as if there is an endless "Asiatic horde" (which was the fascist propaganda to explain losses), but what is actually happening is that the Soviets are successfully concentrating their forces by thinning them down where they aren't needed, and achieving greater numbers where they are needed. Good operational warfare that is, and the Soviets excelled at this. Also, a lot of the time the Germans were unaware of Soviet reserves, so that fresh forces would appear when they weren't expecting them. The self-serving memories of Wehrmacht Generals mostly conveniently "forgot" about this, and so the myth of the endless Asiatic hordes was born. There's a fascinating YouTube video [2] where House (Jonathan, not Hugh Laurie!) dismantles the three usual German alibis of why they were defeated: 1- Hitler interfered too much and was the cause of every blunder. 2- "General Winter". 3- "The Asiatic Horde". ---- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Glantz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Glantz [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_House [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zinPbUZUHDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zinPbUZUHDE