Found this on the Internet the other night. http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/battles.htm Stalingrad, World War II (Sept. 1942-31 Jan. 1943): 770 000 k.
- Guinness World Records: 1,109,000 k. total
- Richard Overy, Russia's War (1997)
- German losses: 147,000 dead + 91,000 POWs
- Soviet KIA, citing Erickson, Barbarossa: The Axis and the Allies.
Table 12.4
- Defensive operations: 323,856 k.
- Offensive operations: 154,885
- [Total: 478,741 k + 651,000 wd. = 1,129,741 casu.]
- A. Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 (1998)
- "In the whole Stalingrad campaign, the Red Army had suffered 1.1
million casualties, of which 485,751 had been fatal."
- In the pocket
- 250,000 or 268,900 or 275,000 or 290,000 or 294,000 trapped (citing
multiple sources), incl...
- Germans: 195,000 or 232,000
- Romanians: 5,000 or 10,000 or 11,000 or 12,000
- Hiwis (Soviet POW turncoats): 19,300 or 20,300 or 50,000
- 25,000 wounded evacuated.
- Soviets record 111,465 Axis POWs taken (19 Nov.-31 Jan.) plus 8,928 in
hospitals
- [est. ca. 290T in pocket - 25T evac. - 121T POWs = ca. 144T k.]
- William Craig, Enemy at the Gates (1973)
- Soviets: 750,000 kwm
- German: 400,000 lost
- Italian: >130,000 lost
- Romanian: 120,000 lost
- Hungarian: 120,000 lost
- [TOTAL: 1,520,000 casualties]
- Stephen Walsh, Stalingrad : The Infernal Cauldron, 1942-1943
- Germans: >600,000 casualties (k/w/c), Army Groups A, Don and B, 28 June
to 2 Feb.
- Italian: 84,830 k/m/c + 29,690 wd./frostbitten 11Dec.-31Jan.
- Romanian: 158,854 k/w/m
- Hungarian: 80,000 k + 63,000 wd. in 2nd Hung.
- TOTAL: 494,374 casualties among Germany's allies
- Webchron [http://campus.northpark.edu/history/webchron/easteurope/Stalingrad.html]
- Soviet: ½M killed
- German: 147,000 "lost" + 91,000 POWs
- [TOTAL: 647,000]
- Palmowski: 146,000 Germans and Romanians k.
- Gilbert
- Germans: 160,000 d. + 90,000 POWs
- Romanians: 65,000 POWs
- John Erickson, Hitler Versus Stalin
- Germans: 147,000 K
- Rumanians: 140,000 "lost"
- 2 Feb. 1993, The Age (Melbourne)
- "[T]wo million men, women and children ... died."
- "800,000 German soldiers died, including 130,000 ... [in the] blockade
of the Sixth Army."
- Edwin Hoyt, 199 Days: the battle for Stalingrad (1993)
- In the six weeks since moving from the Don R. [? maybe 21 Aug-27 Sept],
German 6th Army lost 7,700 k.
- Oct. 14: 2,000 German dead in the Tractor Factory
- Clodfelter
- Soviets: 300,000 casualties
- Axis
- 200,000 Germans killed, wd. or captured inside encirclement.
- 100,000 Germans k/w/c outside encirclement.
- 150,000 non-Germans Axis k/w/c
- 28 Feb. 2003 Guardian (London)
- "At Stalingrad the Soviets lost a million people."
- "... 150,000 Germans lay dead."
- ANALYSIS
- Let's start with ca. 480T Soviets KIA. (Erickson, Beevor, Overy)
- Add the common estimate of 147,000 German 6th Army personnel killed within
the pocket.
- Over 9,700 Germans were killed in the weeks of street fighting, before the
Soviet encirclement. (Hoyt)
- Romanian casualties run from 120-160,000, so a quarter of the mid-point
would give us 35,000 k.
- The Italians lost 85-130,000, so a quarter of the mid-point would give us
27,000 k.
- Hungarians: hard to say
- Germans outside the pocket: hard to say
- TOTAL of what we've got here: 699,000. Plus, we could easily add another
10% to cover all the missing categories, giving us 770,000.
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