1. Great, sir! Thank you for such a humorous post. Moreover, it is perhaps the most useful for solving the issue of FHO estimates. Of course, Soviet data could clarify a protracted debate. I would have taken in your place not 37 days (from the beginning of the war until August 8), but 48 days (9 - June, 31 - July and 8 - August).Richard Anderson wrote: ↑20 Oct 2019, 04:02...
OOO! OOO! OOO! I can answer that. Irrecoverable losses to 31 August 1941 were 2,129,677, wounded and sick were 687,626, for a total of 2,817,303. Assuming a standard distribution over time - for the sake of argument - then 37 days into the 70 days means about losses of about 1,489,145 to 8 August. So the scale of the German delusion was c. 2.69-to-1. Pretty bad accounting on the part of FHO.
2. I would clarify the term "defeated division." Does this mean that in order to defeat a division, it is necessary to kill all its soldiers and officers? Of course not. There are special criteria, most likely then, in different states they were different. For example, with a 30% loss, the division was considered incapable, and at 50% it was defeated.
3. If the document on losses is dated August 8, then the real losses reflected in it should be considered, say, on July 25. Those loss data were collected in more than one day. There was no Internet then, was it? That is, you need to make adjustments to your calculation. However, do not take all my words seriously. I just wanted to lower the "scale of the German delusion". Both my grandfathers and one uncle died at the front, and I am somehow sad to think that they were killed by morons with such a high coefficient of delusion.