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Show NAZIS HAVE LOST 4,000,000 MEN More than 4,000,000 Nazi soldiers are now believed be-lieved to have been killed, captured or permanently crippled so far in the war, reports C. L. Suzberger, writing from London to the New York Times. The newspaper correspondent says the estimate es-timate is based on confidential figures, assembled assemb-led by the Intelligence Division of one of the United Nations and German insurance statistics smuggled out of the Reich. These are astounding figures, indicating the e-normous e-normous losses that the Germans have suffered in Russia, where the bulk of the heavy fighting has occurred, according to the Red Army theory that successful strategy in this war against Hitlerism involves bleeding it to death. The confidential report made available to the correspondent estimated German losses up to June 30, 1912, at 1,250,000 dead, 1,450,000 severely sev-erely wounded and incapable of further service, and 3,500,000 lightly wounded. Losses at the same rate for the second half of 1942 would bring the totals to 1,750,000 killed, 2,005,-000 2,005,-000 incapacitated and more than 4,000,000 when prisoners pris-oners and missing are counted. These figures are termed conservative in view of recent events in Russia Rus-sia where the Red Army's Winter offensive is playing play-ing havoc with German armies. The estimate is that Germany has about 6,000,000 men under arms at this time out of a population of 40,000,000 males, of whom 12,000,-000 12,000,-000 are children less than 15 years old and 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 are men over 65 years of age. This leaves 27,000,000 men "disposed for military and auxiliary aux-iliary duties at the fronts and behind the lines.'' By subtracting the men under arms and those dead and incapacitated, the Reich has a manpower reservoir of 17,000,000 left. This is not enough for the extensive and heavy requirements, of the German war effort, especially when it includes boys between fifteen and seventeen, and old men above sixty years. |