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Re: Black Cross Red Star, Vol. 2, now sent to the printer - this is not the old edition!
On Soviet casualties: on youtube WW2TV they have had on Nigel Askey on presentations Soviet Casualties During Operation Barbarossa 3 parts:
BCRS Vol 2
page 293 Kerch 162,282 KIA/MIA Krivosheev Germans claim 170,000 POWs
page 323 2nd Kharkov 170,958 KIA/MIA Krivosheev German claim 239,000 POWs
according to Askey and others who has done a lot research German claims of POWs are accurate. Kirvosheev figures for the 1941-42 encirclement battles are on the low side because he didn't get the army records ect. Also there are no records on how many NKVD casualties per battle. As for Kerch some of the POWs I would say are naval or merchant sailors. I have read in other accounts the Germans sometimes rounded up any military aged male they found as POWs.
Askey has a site Operation Barbarossa.net
I hope this is of some use to everyone.
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