GERMAN LOSSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 3

GERMAN LOSSES

YEAR’S SUPPLY OF MEN USED UP ON EAST FRONT EVERY FORTNIGHT. ACCORDING TO AMERICAN EXPERT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 27. Major Eliot, writing in the “New York Herald-. Tribune,” estimates that the total German force attacking Stalingrad amounts to 55 divisions, of which 45 are infantry. He says that if the scientific tables used, by the United States Army are applied to a force of this size, attacking a similar objective, losses of 23,266 dead weekly must be anticipated, which is. startlingly close to the Russian official estimates of German losses —25,000 a week. Furthermore, according to military theory, 169.000 wounded must be anticipated weekly, which means that Hitler must replace at least 190,000 men on the Stalingrad sector alone every week, while if the entire Russian front be considered the Germans must replace about 250,000 weekly. In a normal year, the total number of German military conscripts is between 600,000 and 700,000. Therefore the Nazi High Command is using up a year’s supply of manpower every fortnight on tne Russian front at the present rate or fighting.