Reddit reviews The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
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>Soviet losses on the eastern front were 7,000,000 to 5,500,000 for the Germans, if the Soviets were sending ''millions of untrained conscripts to their deaths'' I want to know what the Germans were up to.
>(Soviet loses are massively inflated by the millions of Soviet soldiers who died in German captivity.)
It depends on who you ask. There is no single, definitive source for the losses sustained by either side during the eastern front. However, this book has estimates that are highly unflattering for the Soviets.
The USSR sustained 8,773,200 KIA and MIA, with 5,880,800 P.O.W. Thats a total of 14,654,000 losses. The Germans sustained 3,526,500 KIA and MIA, with 1,415,100 P.O.W. Thats a total of 4,941,600 losses.
In other words, they suffered 196% more losses by the wars end. For every 1000 Germans soldiers lost, the Soviets lost 2965 soldiers.