| If you look at the combat history of the Gross Deutschland division you can see they lost entire regiments at a time. By the time they reached Memel in '45 it looked as a strong force on paper, in reality it was a bunch of ragged soldiers with hardly any equipment left.
It happened often and on a large scale as well, think of Von Paulus' 6th Army. So it isn't easy to give a clean cut answer to your question. |