Comments by "Андрей Борцов" (@Mentol_) on "World War Two animated: Western Front 1940" video.

  1. You compare all killed + wounded in poland vs part of killed in france. Should be: 17k killed in poland vs 50k in france.
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  2. > but regarding early WWII, Soviet command was almost worst than French. In the first 36 days of the war, the French and allies killed 35,000 German soldiers. During the same period, 95,000 Axis soldiers were killed on the eastern front. Yes, the number of armies in the east is greater, but not 2.5 times.
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  3. No. At the beginning of the war, the French and allies had an army of 3.3 million. The Soviet army had a strength of 3.8 million soldiers. I do not see the difference 2.5 times here. Germany had 3.3 million soldiers against France, against the USSR (including allies) about 5 million. For the first time, the Soviet army received a slight numerical superiority at the front only in December 1941.
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  4. Soviet mobilization does not mean that the army automatically doubled - it takes time. Due to large losses, the size of the Red Army in September 1941 was 3.2 million. In December 1941, it was 4.2 million. The Red Army at the beginning of the war was divided into three strategic echelons (unlike the Allied armies). The number of the first echelon including air force and navy personnel amounted to 3.2 million people. The second echelon entered the war only on July 10, 1941. Thus, we can calculate the German losses for the first 18 days of the war (until the second echelon took effect). I take data from the German losses from the work of Rudriguer Overmans. According to him, the Wehrmacht lost 21 thousand soldiers killed in the Western Front in May 1940 and 29 thousand in June. He also lost 25 thousand soldiers in June 1941 in the east and 63 thousand in July. But we only need the first 18 days. Mathematics gives us that the Wehrmacht lost in the east 43.350 soldiers in the first 18 days of the war and 7.500 Allied soldiers. In total - 50.850 soldiers or 2825 soldiers per day. During the same period, the Wehrmacht in France lost 17,200 soldiers or 956 people a day. Italy has not declared war yet, so we do not take into account its losses.
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