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^^ Well, according to Boris Chavkin russian historian and professor at the state acadamy of military science of moscow since 2005, the russian -better- soviet sources regarding the death´s of german PoW´s in the soviet union are not correct.

In his research about the "German prisoners of War in the Soviet Union 1941-1945" he comes to the conclusion that the administration for PoW´s and internees of the mininstry of interior (GUPVI), where your statistic comes from, counted f. e. only those PoW´s who entered the PoW Camps in the Hinterlands.

PoW´s who were executed by soviet soldiers or just died at the front after their surrender were not enumerated. Furthermore PoW´s who died on their way to the camps were not enumerated either.

Another problem with those data Chavkin mentions, is the proven attempt of the government to manipulate the statistics of the death´s of german PoW´s in the soviet union.
(Chapter "The statistics as epitome of a lie.")

Why is it so difficult to get exact numbers today? Because most documents in russian archieves which could be important on this topic are still not for the public´s eyes nor for researches of historiens, even russian historiens.

How do german or western historiens, if you like to call them so, come to such a high estimated number of death´s of the german PoW´s in the soviet union?

According to Chavkin the answer is simple: F. e. in germany the research on this topic has been since the 1950´s. In the USSR this topic, better PoW´s of WW2 in the soviet union in general, simply was taboo. The modern russian historiography is just at the beginning of their research on this topic and cannot give exact numbers due to this fact and f. e. closed archives at this moment. But believing in and argueing with unprooven unelaborated soviet statictics is not an option for todays modern russian historiography.

Just a question: Is today the day of whine threads?

On Top CAS is fine.

Just a question for clarification:

Are those 4,0 million units all vCoH2 game sales or are sales of single addons like commanders, skins, AA, WFA and the base game counted together?

Thank you for your effort keeping us up to date nigo!

But honestly spoken, it makes me really sad to see that one of our forum members must view the official forum to get information.

Is it too much for relic to show some presence in this forum? I guess we all know the answer unfortunately since some months.

Pfc. Jesse Devore holding a French Boy after the liberation of Trevieres. Devore was KIA just two weeks after the photo was taken, presumably while trying to take hill 192 with the 38th infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.

The quality of these coloured pictures in this thread is astonishing and normally deserves an own thread! Thanks for sharing!