REICHSWEHR LOSSES
Benes Puts Figure At Four Million LONDON, October 27. More than 4,000,000 German soldiers have been killed or severely wounded on all fronts up to the end of last August, said Dr. Benes, the Czechoslovak President, in a broadcast. Speaking of the Russian front, Dr. Benes said the German offensive in July came two months too late, partly because the German army was exhausted after the.winter and partly because there were dissensions between Hitler and Goering and the generals as to whether the offensive should begin at all. Goering and a number of the generals had opposed this summer offensive in Russia. Dr. Benes said that these dissensions recurred at a meeting of the War Council in Berlin last August, when Hitler quarrelled with von Boek and another general over the conduct of the operations in Russia.
Hitler had wanted Stalingrad to be taken within a week and the Eastern Front stabilized for a defensive war. The generals held a different view.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 29, 29 October 1942, Page 5
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164REICHSWEHR LOSSES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 29, 29 October 1942, Page 5
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