The true figure of Russian losses needs to be reassessed, and may well turn out to be 80% less, that is just over five million. It will be recalled that Bolshevik propaganda was formulated on the principle of telling mammoth lies.
At the Nuremberg trials in November 1945, the Russian delegation announced that the Soviet Union had lost approximately 26 million people (9.2 million military personnel and 16.8 million civilians,) and that this loss would entitle them to extract maximum revenge at the expense of Germany.
The deaths of 16.8 million civilians are perplexing. 632,000 persons are estimated to have died during the siege of Leningrad (872 days), but how does one account for the other 16.2 million.
Not a single mass grave has been discovered in Russian territory held by the Germans to date. On the contrary almost all mass graves found in central Europe contain the remains of Germans while the mass graves in the Ukraine contain the estimated six million victims of Stalin's induced Holodomor.
When German armies advanced into the Baltic states and the Ukraine, they were greeted as liberators by enthusiastic, cheering crowds. The German army reopened the Russian Orthodox churches. A decision intended to befriend rather than antagonize the population.
Tens of thousands of Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Carelians, Cossacks, Estonians, Georgians, Latvians, Lithuanaians, Ruthenians, Tartars, Turkomans and Ukrainians volunteered to serve in the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS. Furthermore, Lieutenant General Andrey Vlasov raised an army of over one million Russian prisoners of war against the invading Soviet army in East Prussia.
Germany had only a small window of opportunity to have carried out any alleged extermination campaign against civilians from June 1941 to October 1942. Thereafter she was forced to fight a desperate war of retreat, outnumbered on the war front by at least five to one.
At the Nuremberg trials in November 1945, the Russian delegation announced that the Soviet Union had lost approximately 26 million people (9.2 million military personnel and 16.8 million civilians,) and that this loss would entitle them to extract maximum revenge at the expense of Germany.
The deaths of 16.8 million civilians are perplexing. 632,000 persons are estimated to have died during the siege of Leningrad (872 days), but how does one account for the other 16.2 million.
Not a single mass grave has been discovered in Russian territory held by the Germans to date. On the contrary almost all mass graves found in central Europe contain the remains of Germans while the mass graves in the Ukraine contain the estimated six million victims of Stalin's induced Holodomor.
When German armies advanced into the Baltic states and the Ukraine, they were greeted as liberators by enthusiastic, cheering crowds. The German army reopened the Russian Orthodox churches. A decision intended to befriend rather than antagonize the population.
Tens of thousands of Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Carelians, Cossacks, Estonians, Georgians, Latvians, Lithuanaians, Ruthenians, Tartars, Turkomans and Ukrainians volunteered to serve in the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS. Furthermore, Lieutenant General Andrey Vlasov raised an army of over one million Russian prisoners of war against the invading Soviet army in East Prussia.
Germany had only a small window of opportunity to have carried out any alleged extermination campaign against civilians from June 1941 to October 1942. Thereafter she was forced to fight a desperate war of retreat, outnumbered on the war front by at least five to one.