VAST COST IN NAZI MANPOWER
NEW YORK, September 27. Major Feilding Elliot, writing in the New York “Herald-Tribune,” estimates the German force attacking Stalingrad at 55 divisions, of which 45 are infantry. He says that, if the scientific tables used by the United States Army were applied to a force of this size attacking u similar objective 23,206 dead per week must be anticipated, which figure is startlingly close fo the Russian official estimates of the German losses of 25,000 a week.. Furthermore, according to , military theory, 169,000 wounded Would lie anticipated weekly. This means that Hitler must replace nt least 190,000 men in the Stalingrad sector alone every week, while, if tile entire Russian front is considered, the Germans must replace about 350,000 a week. _j Ju a normal year the total number of German military conscripts is (100,000 to 700.000. Therefore the Nazi High Command is using up its year’s supply of manpower every fortnight on the Russian front, at the present rate of fighting.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 3, 29 September 1942, Page 5
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