Revisionist tendencies and Ambrose Sindrome

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Here a table with Luftwaffe ground forcess included and to April 1945

Feldheer Casualties 1 Sep 39-20 Apr 45 (Organizationabteilung d. Gen.Stb. d. Heer, 26 Apr 45, NARA T78, R414, F3189)
Losses in the Heer, Waffen SS, and Luftwaffe Ground Troops
.............................KIA ......................WIA......................... MIA................................... Total
Ostheer ................1,005,413 ............3,992,062 ..................1,369,174 ...........................6,366,649
Geb.AOK 20............ 16,395 .................60,515.........................6,852................................. 83,762
OB Süd-West..... ......48,750 ................174,734 ....................215,525...............................439,009
OB Süd-Ost .............22,370 ..................70,064....................... 24,620 .............................117,054
OB West ................109,046..................382,776 ....................772,460....................... ...1,264,282
Other .....................9,248 ...................28,826.........................6,120............................... 44,194
Total ....................1,211,222 ..............4,708,977 .................2,394,751................... ........8,314,950
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From the same essay(Glantz):
On the 50th anniversary of the Normandy invasion of 1944, a U.S. news magazine
featured a cover photo of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was labeled as the man
who defeated Hitler. If any one man deserved that label, it was not Eisenhower but
Zhukov, Vasilevsky, or possibly Stalin himself. More generally, the Red Army and the
Soviet citizenry of many nationalities bore the lion’s share of the struggle against
Germany from 1941 to 1945. Only China, which suffered almost continuous Japanese
attack from 1931 onward, matched the level of Soviet suffering and effort. In military
terms, moreover, the Chinese participation in the war was almost insignificant in
comparison with the Soviet war, which constantly engaged absorbed more than half of all
German forces.
From June through December 1941, only Britain shared with the Soviet Union the
trials of war against the Germans. Over 3 million German troops fought in the East, while
900,000 struggled elsewhere, attended to occupied Europe, or rested in the homeland.
From December 1941 through November 1942, while over nine million troops on both
sides struggled in the East, the only significant ground action in the Western Theater took
place in North Africa, where relatively small British forces engaged Rommel’s Afrika
Corps and its Italian allies.
In October and November 1942, the British celebrated victory over the Germans
at El Alamein, defeating four German divisions and a somewhat larger Italian force, and
inflicting 60,000 axis losses. The same month, at Stalingrad, the Soviets defeated and
encircled German Sixth Army, damaged Fourth Panzer Army, and smashed Rumanian
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Third and Fourth Armies, eradicating over 50 divisions and over 300,000 men from the
Axis order of battle. By May 1943 the Allies pursued Rommel’s Afrika Corps across
northern Africa and into Tunisia, where after heavy fighting, the German and Italian force
of 250,000 surrendered. Meanwhile, in the East, another German army (the Second) was
severely mauled, and Italian Eighth and Hungarian Second Armies were utterly destroyed,
exceeding Axis losses in Tunisia.
While over 3.5 million German and Soviet troops struggled at Kursk and 8.5
million later fought on a 1,500-mile front from the Leningrad region to the Black Sea coast,
in July 1943 Allied forces invaded Sicily, and drove 60,000 Germans from the island. In
August the Allies landed on the Italian peninsula. By October, when 2.5 million men of
the Wehrmacht faced 6.6 million Soviets, the frontlines had stabilized in Italy south of
Rome as the Germans deployed a much smaller, although significant, number of troops to
halt the Allied advance.
By 1 October 1943, 2,565,000 men (63%) of the Wehrmacht's 4,090,000-man
force struggled in the East, together with the bulk of the 300,000 Waffen SS troops. On 1
June 1944, 239 (62%) of the German Army's 386 division equivalents fought in the East.
With operations in Italy at a stalemate, until June 1944, in fact, the Wehrmacht still
considered the west as a semi-reserve. In August 1944, after the opening of the second
front, while 2.1 million Germans fought in the East, 1 million opposed Allied operations
in France.
Casualty figures underscore this reality. From September 1939 to September
1942, the bulk of the German Army's 922,000 dead, missing, and disabled (14% of the
total force) could be credited to combat in the East. Between 1 September 1942 and 20
November 1943 this grim count rose to 2,077,000 (30% of the total force), again
primarily in the East. From June through November 1944, after the opening of the second
front, the German Army suffered another 1,457,000 irrevocable losses. Of this number,
903,000 (62%) were lost in the East. Finally, after losing 120,000 men to the Allies in the
Battle of the Bulge, from 1 January to 30 April 1945 the Germans suffered another 2
million losses, two-thirds at Soviet hands. Today, the stark inscription, “died in the
East,” that is carved on countless thousands of headstones in scores of German cemeteries
bear mute witness to the carnage in the East, where the will and strength of the
Wehrmacht perished.
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mkenny:

Please answer the questions posted since some days ago, first. Don`t ignore them. You are making of a fool ignoring everything that is being thrown at you.

Luftwaffe? We are talking land warfare here.

What are you going to do next: list the Bismarck casualty list?
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Karl Heidenreich wrote: Feb-May 1945? No, he is saying 1939 - 1945. Please read or you are in a nervous breakdown mode already?
I did read it. Here is what you said:
Karl Heidenreich wrote:By war’s end, out of the 13.5 million men Hitler’s Wehrmacht fielded in the
war, 10.8 million had perished or fallen captive in the East
Thus he does say 10.8 in the East (1941-45)and not 1939-45.
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Let´s check this figures and concepts, mkenny:

During the war and since war’s end, the Soviets have bitterly complained since the
war about the absence of a real “second front” before June 1944, and that issue remains a
source of suspicion even in post Cold War Russia. Yet, Allied reasons for deferring a
second front until 1944 were valid, and Allied contributions to victories were significant.
As the American debacle at the Kasserine Pass in December 1942 and Canadian
performance at Dieppe in 1943 indicated, Allied armies were not ready to operate in
France in 1943, even had a sufficient number of landing craft been available for the
invasion, which they were not. Even in 1944 Allied success at Normandy was a close
thing and depended, in part, on major German misperceptions and mistakes. Once in
France, after the breakout from the Normandy bridgehead in August, the 2 million Allied
troops in France inflicted grievous losses on the 1 million defending Germans, 100,000 at
Falaise, and a total of 400,000 by December 1944. In the subsequent battle of the Bulge
(16 December 1944-31 January 1945), the Germans lost another 120,000 men. These
losses in the West, combined with the over 1.2 million lost in the East during the same
period, broke the back of the Wehrmacht and set the context for the final destruction of
Germany in 1945.
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mkenny:
Thus he does say 10.8 in the East (1941-45)and not 1939-45.
You once said, when admiting that you were wrong with Monty in this same thread, that no one is perfect. In the rush of writing I commited the mistake there of writing 1939 instead of 1941. So what? Not even quarter of a million could be added to that by then.
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Answers please, or you are admiting you have no answers for those questions, which everybody knows by now at the forum.
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Karl Heidenreich wrote:
Luftwaffe? We are talking land warfare here.
Please read carefully the description
and Luftwaffe Ground Troops
Karl Heidenreich wrote:What are you going to do next: list the Bismarck casualty list?
How about total Navy casualties Sept 1939 to November 1944:

91,470
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The bibliography of the Glantz paper is large, but is worth mentioning here, just in order to disperse the comedy-like comment: "Glantz has got the numbers completely wrong."

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mkenny:
How about total Navy casualties Sept 1939 to November 1944:

91,470
What about them? Not relevant in this discussion as all the garbage you are bringing to soffocate your predicament.

My answers? Let me remind you: "Where do I said that the Germans fought to death?

Arrogance, arrogance, arrogance...

I think I can rest my case now.
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German figures

Feldheer Casualties 1 Sep 39-20 Apr 45 (Organizationabteilung d. Gen.Stb. d. Heer, 26 Apr 45, NARA T78, R414, F3189)
Losses in the Heer, Waffen SS, and Luftwaffe Ground Troops
.............................KIA ......................WIA......................... MIA................................... Total
Ostheer ................1,005,413 ............3,992,062 ..................1,369,174 ...........................6,366,649

Glantz, it is claimed, says the East total was 10.8 million. 4.8 million adrift even without the bogus counting of the wounded as permanent losses.
To be fair to Glantz we only have a passing mention and not a referenced total.
I have to admit pulling the legs off a helpless spider is not as satisfying as I imagined it would be. It is sad to see someone trying to defend such a hopeless case.
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We can do a summary now, after the evidence posted from an expert source, not a pàthetic amateur:

The Germans fought in two fronts from June 6th, 1944 to May 8th, 1945. Their most important front was in the East were they fought the bulk of their enemies: the Red Army. To that front they commited the greatest amount of resources.

In the West the Germans were also overwhelmed by numerical superior allies: about 4 - 5,2 million allies against roughfly 2 million Germans. In the West the Germans also fought against an enemy that quickly gained control of the skies.

The Germans greatest toll of casualties was, however, in the East, not in the West.

It has been until the last decade the precise studies has taken place in order to analyse what really happened in the Eastern Front, which includes the operations toward the end of the war. These new studies modify (or correct) previous mistakes.

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Some interesting info on Glantz and his reliance on German secondary sources and the factual errors that ensue.
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... +in+Glantz

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 8604&hilit
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Karl Heidenreich wrote:By war’s end, out of the 13.5 million men Hitler’s Wehrmacht fielded in the
war, 10.8 million had perished or fallen captive in the East
Strangely one of your other highly rated sources (Krivosheev) contradicts this with a total of 6,923,700 German casualties in the East.
This can be seen on page 278 of his book.
Which figure do you think is the most accurate-given the 4 million difference?
Krivosheev also lists 1,725,800 Axis Allied casualties bringing the Axis total to 8,649,550.
It is still c.2 million short of Glantz.
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To toss in my 2 cents... as I am boredathome tonight...


1. I think the internet would be a much happier place if people actually read what other people are saying before arguing againt it.
2. I was lost after page 25 and the name calling started but as I understand it 5 pages have been spent arguing 2 points - Germany was outnumbered in the west & substantial numbers of German troops surrendered in a not wounded or dead condition.
3. I don't remember Karl specifically using the phrase "fight to the death" nor do I remember Mkenny "admiting that [he was] wrong with Monty in this same thread" - as I recall it he acknowledged that Monty failed at Arnhem and was not perfect - both points which no one, including him, had disputed.
4. I bought and read a used copy of Decision in Normandy by Carlo D'Este after about page ~13 of this thread and thought the insight into the Normandy Campaign, particularly Montgomery's role was very interesting.
5. Again I point out the irony, in a thread about "revisionist tendencies," that if 'pro-axis' and 'pro-allied' arguments are advanced the pro-axis argument it automatically taken as the 'truth' by some and any attempt to present the opposite is obviously evidence of 'revisionism.' IMO RF 'won' this thread on p1, post 12 - "Hardly a proposition for intelligent debate....."
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