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Even though for all intents and purposes the war had already been lost slightly more than two weeks earlier in February 1943 with the defeat at Stalingrad, Goebbels rallied the German people, Nazi and non-Nazi alike, to fight on in a Total War. By November, after more than 1500 days of war, total [[Wehrmacht]] permanent casualties (dead, disabled, or missing) amounted to roughly 3 million men. This makes for a loss rate of just under 2,000 men per day for over four years - a time period which includes the campaigns in [[Poland]], [[France]], the [[Balkans]], [[North Africa]], and the colossal eastern battles of [[Operation Barbarossa]], Rzhev, [[Kharkov]], [[Stalingrad]], [[Kursk]], and the [[Caucasus]].

Even though for all intents and purposes the war had already been lost slightly more than two weeks earlier in February 1943 with the defeat at Stalingrad, Goebbels rallied the German people, Nazi and non-Nazi alike, to fight on in a Total War. By November, after more than 1500 days of war, total [[Wehrmacht]] permanent casualties (dead, disabled, or missing) amounted to roughly 3 million men. This makes for a loss rate of just under 2,000 men per day for over four years - a time period which includes the campaigns in [[Poland]], [[France]], the [[Balkans]], [[North Africa]], and the colossal eastern battles of [[Operation Barbarossa]], Rzhev, [[Kharkov]], [[Stalingrad]], [[Kursk]], and the [[Caucasus]].

From November 1943 through the end of the war in May 1945 - a span of 527 days - Wehrmacht losses would be some 5 million men. Thus, over the final eighteen months of the war, German losses were an astonishing 9,400 per day, and although this closing phase made up only a quarter of the war in chronological terms, it accounted for nearly two-thirds of Germany’s total combat losses.

From November 1943 through the end of the war in May 1945 - a span of 527 days - Wehrmacht losses would be some 5 million men. Thus, over the final eighteen months of the war even after Germany had been effectively defeated on the battlefield at Stalingrad, German losses continued at an astonishing 9,400 per day, and although this closing phase made up only a quarter of the war in chronological terms, it accounted for nearly two-thirds of Germany’s total combat losses.

By far, more deaths - millions - occurred after the war had already been lost at Stalingrad, and largely due to the stupidity, ignorance, and stubbornness of leaders and diplomats, not limited to Germany alone, as well as their [[brainwash]]ed populations by a controlled media, on both the [[Axis Powers]] and [[Allied Powers]] sides.

By far, more deaths - millions - occurred after the war had already been lost at Stalingrad, and largely due to the stupidity, ignorance, and stubbornness of leaders and diplomats, not limited to Germany alone, as well as their [[brainwash]]ed populations by a controlled media, on both the [[Axis Powers]] and [[Allied Powers]] sides.