Actual Soviet casualties in Operation Trappenjagd 1942

[Kelvin]

Hi, I would like to ask for Soviet casualties from Soviet docment or statistics in the battle of Kerch (Operation Trappenjagd) in May 1942. German claimed that they took 170,000 Soviet soldiers, how about Soviet data on that ? Thank

[Art]

According to Krivosheev the Crimean Front lost 162 thousand men killed or missing in May 1942, so no big overstatement here.

[Kelvin]

Hello, Art, thank so much on that.

It is curious that in many cases, the number of Soviet POW captured by German is more or less equal to total casualties suffered by Soviet army in some battles.

[stg 44]

Hello, Art, thank so much on that.

It is curious that in many cases, the number of Soviet POW captured by German is more or less equal to total casualties suffered by Soviet army in some battles.

I've seen it speculated that the Germans rounded up civilian men in the area too, which may or may not have been related to them being forced into service by the Red Army units in the area without official conscription or just out of the Germans thinking they were soldiers trying to pass themselves off as civilians. I think German PoW numbers are probably not simply estimates, so their numbers are likely padded by rounding up civilian males that may or may not be combatants.

[Kelvin]

Hi, I heard that many Soviet captured in battle of Kiev were civilisan too, I have no ideas.

The heavy casuaties suffered from Soviet army and caused by relatively small German-Romanina allied troop possibly caused by the formed was forced against the sea barrier and let to panic as most of Soviet troop were raw concript. I guess.