At full strength, usually eight. There were seven squads to a German platoon, and each had a machine gun, normally the MG 42. This was such an excellent machine gun that the US basically copied it after the war, as the M 60, and used it until very recently. The average German soldier was still armed with a Model 1898 Mauser rifle, but he was also carrying belts of ammo for his squad's machine gun.
A US platoon had four twelve man squads, and only two machine guns, which were nowhere near as good. The only edge the average US foot soldier had was his semi-automatic M1 rifle, which could fire eight shots as fast as he could pull the trigger.
I believe if you add up the forces which came from the west and the east into Germany and all the German soldiers you would get a total of 5 million.
The Battle of Britain was an air campaign. No German soldiers were wounded, only airmen.
Raul Hilberg gives an estimate of 300 at the most.
'Involved' as victims or perpetrators?
Most of those who were prisoners of war were sent home after the war, though in many cases not immediately. The USSR kept some German prisoners till 1955.
how many german soldiers returned to germany after the war.
5.53 Million German Soldiers were reportedly to be killed during World War 2.
The number of German soldiers who served in the German Military in World War I was 13,250,000. The number of American military personnel that served during World War I was 4,743,826.
1,808,000
About 10,000 soldiers
three million
18 million
178,000
about 7 and a half
Two, sniper and observer.
210 million German soldiers fought in WW1..... or was it 210? i cant remember :D
Between 12-13 million soldiers served in the German Defense Force - or Wehrmacht - in the Second World War.