NAZI CASUALTIES
German statisticians who have persistently juggled with figures in efforts to minimise their Avar losses have slipped up once again, says the Daily Telegraph. Into a review of what are-called in Britain, "vital statistics" — births, marriages, deaths, etc.—has crept an admission that their war casualties to date total 250,000. This is nearly 100,000 more than the figure given on July 3, when it was stated that casualties to June 25, the date of the French Armis-< tice, totalled 156,492. As there has been no land fighting since June 25, it is obvious that the total first announced was a gross under-estimate. Even now the figure fallls l'ar short of the real total. It was estimated in London on June 5" that German losses Avere betAveen 400,000 and 500,000, and this figure must have been increased considerably in the last 20 days of fighting in France.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 221, 4 October 1940, Page 3
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