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Disappearance Of Axis Satellite Troops (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 10. One aspect of the deterioration of the German position in Russia in the past year is the disappearance of at least 600,000 troops of Germany and her allies from that theatre of war. In the autumn of 1942, when the German armies were at the peak of their 'advance, they were assisted by approximately 400,000 Rumanians and 200,000 Italians, 150,000 Hungarians, 20,000 Slovaks, and 20,000 Spaniards. In rather more than a year, all the Italians have been liquidated or withdrawn. The Rumanians have been reduced by the Don and Caucasian battles to about 150.000. Of the Hungarians, perhaps 15,000 survived the defeat on the Don, and this remnant was recently defeated when the Russans pushed through Rovno. No trace remains of the Slovaks, but perhaps 5000 Spaniards still remain. The total number of satellite troops still taking part is thus reduced to about 170,000.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 7
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