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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: maceng2 who wrote (37047)8/11/2002 9:37:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I believe the statistics you cite for the Eastern Front are German losses.

The Soviets lost more than 4 million combatants during the first few months of the Nazi invasion. The Nazis broke through their line because they were not expecting the attack, and surrounded them. They surrendered, and were kept penned up until they starved to death.

That was just the beginning. It got worse for the Communists, because the Nazis wanted to kill every commisar, and every person who supported the Communists.

The Ukrainians were so anti-Communist that they were happy to run the concentration camps, and did a damn fine job of it, freeing ethnic Germans for more important tasks.

As I have posted before, more than 20 million Russians died on the Eastern Front.

Stuff like that makes me feel little sympathy for Germans who want to cry about how mean the Russians were when they finally got the upper hand.

I agree with you that the Soviets would have fought just as hard against the Yankees as they did against the Nazis. And there were a hell of a lot more of them. Not to mention the fact that they had installed puppet states in all the countries they liberated from the Nazis.

But if you want to talk about who suffered the worst (after the Jews) in my opinion, it was the Poles. 80% of the Polish military died in WWII, worse for the officers.
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