American army Quote by Andrei Cherny

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

— Fidel Castro

“Estimates of casualties, civilian and military, are notoriously inexact, but it is likely that some 27 million Soviet citizens died as a direct result…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“By 1944, three years later, the ordeal and the turnabout had both been spectacular. The Soviet Union had lost as many as 20 million…

— C.J. Chivers

“Ad they entered Berlin, while still killing off the last of its German defenders, The Russians indulged in an orgy of rape and rage…

— Andrei Cherny

“Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.”

— Andrei Cherny

“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if…

— Alan Clark

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many…

— Rick Atkinson

“Only those who experienced our war in the East can truly picture its scale and ferocity. There are many of us who were there;…

— Wolfgang Faust

“The Germans had more men killed and wounded at Verdun, 325,000, than all the 230,000 men deployed in the field at Stalingrad twenty-six years later.”

— Joseph E. Persico

Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably less than…

— Tony Judt

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions,…

— Paul von Hindenburg

“The war in Europe was over. Germans called it die Stunde Null, zero hour. Cities lay in ruins. Allied bombing had destroyed more than…

— Annie Jacobsen