German Losses in Barbarosa 1941

[Carl Schwamberger]

Searched through a dozen pages of search results and failed to find this info. Would appreciate any data, info, sources, or discussion of German losses in the east in 1941. The sources I have on hand are a few old magazine articles from thr 1960s through 1990s. They place the German casualties between 800,000 & one million between 22 June and 30 November or 30 December respectively.

Aside from the accuracy of these number I'm curious about the distribution, ie: combat, aircrew, ground unit, illness, accident, numbers returned to duty after healing.

Thanks

[Boby]

Anlage 1 zu OKH/GenStdH/GenQu/Abt. 1/Qu. 2/III, Nr. 6205/41 g.Kdos. v. 5.12.1941:

until 30.11.1941 = 753.046 (of these, 349.864 (46.45%) from Heeresgruppe Mitte)

Boby,

[Boby]

From Halder KTB of 14 December 1941

losses 22.6.-10.12.1941

Wounded = 18 220 officers, 561 575 non-commissioned officers and privates
Killed = 6 827 officers, 155 972 non-commissioned officers and privates
Missing = 562 officers, 31 922 non-commissioned officers and privates

Total lost 25,609 officers and 749,469 non-commissioned officers and privates.

Total losses, excluding patients = 775,078 people, or 24.22% of the army on the Eastern Front (an average of 3.2 million people) ...

[Boby]

From Halder KTB of 30.11.1941

losses 22.6.-26.11.1941

Wounded = 17,582 officers, 538,103 non-commissioned officers and privates
Killed = 6,552 officers, 149,923 non-commissioned officers and privates
Missing = 524 officers, 30,428 non-commissioned officers and privates

Total losses = 24,658 officers, 718,454 non-commissioned officers and privates

Total losses, excluding patients = 743,112, people, or 23.12% of the army on the Eastern Front (an average of 3.2 million people) ...

[Art]

Take a look at:
http://ww2stats.com/cas_ger_okh_dec41.html
http://ww2stats.com/cas_ger_okw41.html
Combat losses of all the three branches by the end of the year were 848 thousands men:
http://ww2stats.com/1941_12_TOT.jpg
In addition other nations (mostly Romania and Finland) lost some 200+ thousands men as combat casualties.

[Carl Schwamberger]

Ok. Thanks, Merci, Danke... This is very helpful. Eventually I'll be wanting the same for other dates and locations & hopefully the sources mentioned above will be helpful there as well.

[Qvist]

There are lots of statistics, which as usual varies somewhat according to their remove from events, and as always it's illusory to think there will ever be a final precise figure. We are always talking about approximation. But the variation isn't very large, and it is probably safe to assume that we are in the territory of 850,000 casualties thereabouts, or a bit more if the arctic front losses are added.

My own consolidated figure for the main army field commands, based on their own casualty reporting and what information I have on Nachmeldungen etc, is 826,000. Geb. AOK20 not included, which adds another roughly 30,000, if you want to include them. The WFSt summaries produced by WVW list 2,005 combat losses for the KM by the end of the year, and 3723K/9876W/2099M= 15,698 for the LW as of 20 December. These (like the figures quoted in Halder) being a running tally that is certainly somewhat understated.

'Then there are the hospitalised sick and frostbitten, for which there are really no figures. But from what can be pieced together from bits and pieces, they must certainly have amounted to something like 6-700,000 cases.

[Boby]

frostbitten

until 20 feabruary 112.627 cases
third-degree 17.357
second-degree 62.000

goebbels diary for 6.3.1942

[Qvist]

228,000 for the whole winter 41-42. And that is actually a consolidated and seemingly reliable figure. It's the sick that is problematic.

[Carl Schwamberger]

My appreciation for the further information, particularly for the sources.