[dead]

It’s astonishing the number of casualties the Germans inflicted on the soviets in the first two years, and yet they kept fighting.

What choice did they have? Die fighting or die not fighting.

[Aetius]

True. I should have said that it was astonishing that they were able to keep fighting after sustaining such losses.

I guess they were one of only a few nations that had the population to do so.