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- From: parson_r@cubldr.colorado.edu (Robert Parson)
- Newsgroups: soc.history
- Subject: Re: Soviet Losses at Stalingrad
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.152032.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:20:32 GMT
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- In article <vzhivov.727717611@cunews>,
- vzhivov@alfred.carleton.ca (Vladimir Zhivov) writes:
- > Today, Reuters carried a small news-item on Soviet losses in the
- > Battle of Stalingrad. According to RUSSIAN historians (this appeared
- > in the TRUD newspaper, a trade union publication), 1.1 million
- > Soviet soldiers perished (that's killed, not counting the wounded or
- > POWs) in this epic and decisive battle. Also, 13500 Soviet soldiers
- > were executed for cowardice. Any comments on these figures? They sound
- > reasonable to me. If anyone can provide any more details (names of
- > these historians, publications) please do so. Also, what are the
- > estimated German (and allied - Italian, Rumanian, Hungarian)
- > casualties in this battle?
- >
- > Vladimir
-
-
- According to Wm. Craig, _Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad_
- (1973):
- Germans 400,000
- Italians 130,000
- Hungarians 120,000
- Rumanians 200,000
-
- He says that Soviet Official Sources told him, off the record, that
- Red Army _total_ losses (killed, wounded, and missing - of course a
- large proportion of the prisoners would have died in Nazi POW camps but
- then again I don't suppose the Germans _took_ many prisoners in this
- battle) come to 750,000. The number of civilian deaths is large but
- unknown - 40,000 killed in the first bombardment, and the total is
- probably far larger. Perhaps the new figures include civilian losses?
- Of course, Craig's 1973-vintage Soviet sources may have underestimated,
- deliberately or otherwise.
-