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> 90% of German army was killed in the East front. This is an overstatement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#German_sources_fo
by cameldrv 7y ago
> 90% of German army was killed in the East front.
This is an overstatement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#German_sources_for_military_casualties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War...
If you go by KIA, MIA, and POW, Eastern Front is about 2 million, France/Belgium + North Africa + Italy + Navy is about 900k.
- michalu 7y agoIf you go by Overmans Eastern Front until 12/31/44 2,742,909 Western Front until 12/31/44 339,957 makes eastern front 91%. If you look at the size of the battles in Western front it's hard to see how would the figure exceed 339k. For comparison, Stalingrad alone claims 500k Germans and 900k axis total. Battle of Moscow estimates 500k killed, missing, wounded or captured. Now we can play with semantics. Are we looking at killed only, or captured and wounded or otherwise incapacitated? Is it Germans only of axis. I think did overstate. To put it better, I would say 90% of Nazi power was defeated in Eastern front.