GERMAN CASUALTIES
5,000,000 IN 1944 ALONE LONDON, May 23. During investigations following upon the arrest of the German High Command at Flensburg, the Allied Control Commission has found official German records showing an incomplete total of 5,000,000 Germans killed, admitted to hospital, or missing during 1944 alone, stated Reuters correspondent at Flensburg. General Jodl, in conversation wtih the Allied authorities, according to a British United Press correspondent, said that Hitler told him at the end of 19il that he would never have undertaken tte invasion of Russia if he had known 'the real strength of the Red Army. Jodl added that he himself knew at the end of 1942 that.Germany could not win the war militarily.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5
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