GERMAN LOSSES.
WAR CASUALTY TOTALS.
(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 3. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says German casualties in the Polish, Norwegian, Flandere and French campaigns are given as 38,963 killed, 142,960 wounded and 24,168 missing. These include casualties announced yesterday, but exclude Western Front losses prior to May 5.
The German High Command yesterday announced that the German casualties since the invasion of the Lowlands were 27,074 killed, 111,034 wounded and 18,384 missing. It was claimed that over 1,900.000 French troops were captured, including 29,000 officere.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 7
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