The Eastern Front By The Numbers

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Of course the number of lines was quite limited but did this have an impact on the supply of the Ostheer and the corresponding troops movements behind the front line and the

German casualties in World War II

From 1941 to 1944, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union fought tooth and nail for control over the region, resulting in immense loss of life on both sides. This blog post will take a

Battle Lines of WWI. Examin the extent of the battle lines on the ...

The culmination of this is that for a long time, English-language accounts of the Eastern Front took German accounts and sources basically at face value. The Soviets were attacking with

The first number is the eastern front and the second number is the western front and the final value to the ratio of eastern quantity to western quantity. Operational=4298 and

Given the numbers involved, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 made it unambiguously the decisive theater of the Second World War. Almost four million

World War II – Eastern Front, June-Dec 1944: The progress of the Soviet armies toward central and southeastern Europe made it all the more urgent for the western Allies to

THE EASTERN FRONT: 1942-1943
Operation Barbarossa: The Biggest of All Time
The Oxford Companion to World War II, p. 341.
WW2 Eastern Front fatality ratios between Axis and Soviet Union

35 Facts About Eastern Front World War 2

Final Glimpse at the Eastern Front. The Eastern Front of World War 2 was a brutal theater of conflict that shaped the course of history. From the staggering number of casualties

In August 2017 the TIK Channel on YouTube posted a video presentation with the title ‘The Numbers Say it All: The Myth of German Superiority on the WW2 Eastern Front’. A

After examining the manpower and aircraft strength and loss statistics in the Eastern front it’s time to take a look at the tank situation. Both sides built large numbers of

Zukov’s Winter Offence before Moscow (December 1941) inflicted massive casualties on the Wehrmacht–casualties that the Germans could not possibly replace in

German Air Operations on the Eastern Front, 1916-1917 Richard L. DiNardo, USMC Command and Staff College When one thinks of German airpower in the First World War, one is

The numbers of foreign volunteers deployed on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 are estimated as the following: 47,000 Spaniards, 40,000 Dutchmen, 38,000

Churchill called the Eastern Front ‚the unknown war‘ and there is still no Soviet official history of the army’s role during the First World War. It was in the East, with Russia in

Also, the number of „engaged“ (the units which are actually in contact) troops is always smaller than the number of total troops on the respective front. Neither can the total

Based on Soviet sources Krivosheev put German losses on the Eastern Front from 1941-1945 at 6,923,700 men: including – killed 4,137,100, taken prisoner 2,571,600 and 215,000 dead

The Germans suffered about 4 300 000 dead on the Eastern Front. This includes Germans, non-Germans from Greater Germany who were conscripted despite this (common with Poles) and

Estimates of the number of military personnel on the Eastern front as of 7 May 1945 made by the OKW’s Organizational Department: The strength of the Army, Waffen-SS and

In this first video, I will first present a novel dataset containing estimates of German and Soviet losses, personal strength, tank strengths, and manpower reserves for every month of the war

back to Part I: Russian vs German AFVs in WW II If the Western Allies would not take into consideration, and the Russians had not received the 11,900 armored vehicles by Lend-Lease,

According to OKW report, the overall German armed forces (incl.Heer, SS, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine) had suffered 5,873,268 casualties on Eastern Front (incl. 20th

Whether it’s the number of divisions, the drama and the bloodshed, or the strategic significance: the Eastern Front should command the attention of any student of World War II. It really was the biggest war of all time. And come to

From the opening days of Operation Barbarossa to the end of the fighting at Kursk, more than 2.5 million Germans were killed or wounded on the Eastern Front. No nation suffered greater loss

Historian Gröhler in „Stärke, Verteilung und Verluste der deutschen Luftwaffe im zweiten Weltkrieg“ gives for the Eastern front in 1944 0,00703 losses per sortie with the

The numbers of foreign volunteers deployed on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 are estimated as the following: 47,000 Spaniards, 40,000 Dutchmen, 38,000 Belgians, 20,000 Poles, 10,000 Frenchmen, 6,000

When looking at the ratio of combat to non-combat losses, it is interesting to see that Tiger losses on the Eastern Front and Western Front ratios are almost identical, while the

Say it All: The Myth of German Superiority on the WW2 Eastern Front’. A few people have asked me what I thought of the video because I have done some work on calculating the Soviet and

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