“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.
Those are sobering figures. “Bloodbath” is the only way to describe it.
The magnitude of WWII is beyond anything ever before.
In his book about the fall of Berlin, Cornelius Ryan describes how the Germans destroyed 400 Russian tanks in only an hour at the Battle of Selow Heights.
Despite the losses, it hardly even slowed the Russians down.