I saw a program about the Wehrmacht on TV today.
It actually showed something I had never noticed before. In the early months of the war in Russia, the Germans while capturing and killing Russians by the millions were also suffering heavy casualties themselves.
They lost most of their horses which was their main means of transport. Sort of surprising that such an advanced military still depended on horses.
The Russians got millions of trucks ... well, maybe hundreds of thousands ... from the U.S.
“the Germans while capturing and killing Russians by the millions were also suffering heavy casualties themselves.”
The Germans lost an average of a regiment (1,500+ men) a day KIA on the eastern front from June 1941 to May 1945. That’s almost 50,000 soldiers a month for the entire war in the east. The Russian loses were even more staggering. It was a total bloodbath.