Monthly German ground troop strength on the Western Front

[CJK1990]

Anybody have any documentation on exactly how many ground troops the Germans had in the West from October 1944 to March 1945?

[CJK1990]

I guess I'm a little disappointed nobody has responded. I saw a source that claimed there were about 700,000 in September 1944, but that was it.

[Michael Kenny]

I guess I'm a little disappointed nobody has responded. I saw a source that claimed there were about 700,000 in September 1944, but that was it.

This might give you an idea of the complexity.

http://ww2stats.com/index.html

The problem is that there are various counting methods.
Do you mean Army Troops.
Are SS included?
What about Luftwaffe/Navy?
The area is a minefield.

There are a number of threads here on the subject.

viewtopic.php?p=684155#p684155

[CJK1990]

I am already well aware of the complexity. I know that Germans gave the strength of Heer, SS, and Luftwaffe ground troops on various dates for the Eastern front (for example 2.2 million on 1 January 1945, according to a book I read) and am wondering what the correspending figures for the Western front are.

[Qvist]

It fluctuated, but by the same measure as the one you refer for the East, we are generally in the territory of 6-700,000, if I remember correctly. That is, in (non-mediterranean) France, Belgium and the Netherlands.