When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, in Operation Barbarossa, the Red Army's ground forces had 303 divisions and 22 separate brigades (4.8 million soldiers), including 166 divisions and 9 brigades (2.9 million soldiers) garrisoned in the western military districts. The Axis deployed on the Eastern Front 181 divisions and 18 brigades (5.5 million soldiers).
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Spain did not take part in ww2
13,400,000 men at arms including airmen and naval forces
At the start of WWI the armies of the main powers were roughly as follows: Germany 4,5 million Austria-hungary 3 million Great Britain 0,975 million France 4 million Russia 6 million
some estimates go up 2 million people, while others are estimated at 600,000. other estimates are as low as 32,000. regardless,in every war Canada has participated in, it has had the largest army in ratio with population.
30000 and through the war 30000
Hitler had not prepared for a long drawn-out campaign in the Russian winter, across such vast territory, and the sheer size of the Russian Army
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Russian people are of average size. The country of Russia is the largest country by size in the world. Russia spans two continents.
The size of the German army was other 25 million strong.
"http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_factors_contributed_to_Napoleon%27s_retreat_from_Russia"The vast size which allowed the Russian Army room to out maneuver the French.
Spain did not take part in ww2
international size.
The main reason that World War 2 started was because of the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 and how Germany had been breaking policies made after World War 1 about the size of their army. Yo mama! XD
Generally speaking, the German Army was superior to any other army in 1914. It was much bigger than the British Army (who had about the same level of quality training and equipment as the German Army), about the same size as the French Army (while having moderately better training, tactics, and organization than the French), and somewhat smaller than the Russian Army (which was much less organized and poorly trained, led, and equipped). The Italian, Austro-Hungarian, Turkish, and Serbian armies were all generally considerably inferior to any of the aforementioned ones. In 1914, the US Army was tiny (less than 20,000 members), the Japanese maintained a good-quality but relatively small army, and the rest of the world had nothing really worth mentioning as a modern (for the time) army.
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See: http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvvets.html