![]() By contrast, the Soviet Union fielded over 10 million personnel and had suffered over 30 million civilian and military casualties. ![]() Up to that point, they had suffered roughly 4-5 million civilian and military casualties. At the surrender of Germany in May 1945, the Western Allies fielded roughly 4.5 million personnel between all of its formations in France, the Low Countries, Germany, and Italy, with about 5.4 million personnel total having ever served in Europe. By sheer size, it comparatively dwarfs the Western Allies’ efforts. Whether measured by landmass, casualties, or personnel involved, it is the largest war to have ever been fought, and the theater demonstrates an unparalleled capacity for human suffering. Covering a land mass of 286,000 square miles and involving over 20 million people, it is the inarguable lynchpin of the war’s focus and centrally determined its outcome. In the history of human warfare, nothing surpasses the scale or brutality of the Eastern Front of the Second World War. ![]() ![]() Screen capture of a scene from Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter. ![]()
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