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Originally Posted by Doppleganger Well you disagree with Krivosheev then as your number is some 3 million lower than his (assuming you mean 8 million irrecoverable losses). What is your source for 8 million?
When I find the book again I will quote the source here. I'm not saying that I agree with that source mind you. |
The number includes POWs who died when in German hands, and those who returned, I count that as a separate category than those lost on the battlefield. It also includes MIAs and other categories, you did not provide enough context. Nor did you quote the enemy's losses for a juxtaposition between the two.
Here is a breakdown, past what Krivosheev gives:
The following are recognized as military deaths including POWs, also including NKVD frontier forces:
8.668 million minimum.
- 5.227 million killed in action
- 1.103 million died of wounds
- 0.556 million nonbattle deaths of which 267,000 disease, 289,000 accidents and executions
= 6.886 million
- 3.396 million missing in action
- 1.163 million unaccounted losses in first six months
= 11.444 million
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- 0.940 million reconscripted from liberated territories, escaped from encirclement (okruzhentsy)
- 1.836 million POWs returned at end of war
= 2.776 million missing in action refound
= 8.668 million absolute fatal losses