[henkster]

400,000 is a lot of men to lose in any war.

If you average 11,000,000 military deaths over 47 months of combat, this is what the Soviet Union lost every two months.

[colorado tanker]

The Germans suffered more than 10 times our dead. Following the daily fighting in the East as we have now for several years explains why.

One of the images that has stayed with me is the smiling, jovial German ski trooper high in the Caucasus Mountains, certain of German victory and oblivious to the Stalingrad disaster that was in his near future. It has been a long and bloody trail from there to Kustrin. No more smiles.