GERMAN LOSSES
IN FIGHTING ON WESTERN FRONT.
EXPOSURE OF HEAVY UNDERSTATEMENT.
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY. July 4
The recent German official statement of casualties has been treated with some scepticism in authoritative circles. The Germans state that they lost 10.000 killed between May 10 and June 14 and 17,000 killed between June 5 apd June 25. As the French resistance was very slight during the latter period it is improbable that the German losses were greater than during the earlier period when the Dutch Belgians, French and British were all fighting. f A significant fact is that the German wireless on. May 25 asked the public to realise that the German casualties to that date were not as high as in the Somme battle in 1916 when the total casualties were estimated a' 600,000.
Though calculation is difficult it is estimated here that the German casualties from May 10 to the end of. the war in France totalled 400,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1940, Page 7
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