I cant find the statistics of number of men on the eastern front (buried somewhere in my links/books) but I have a few numbers:

Nearly 7 million men in Heer+Waffen SS in 1944.

Eastern front:
July 1 1943 78% of all divisions
June 1 1944 66% of all divisions.

November 1, 1942 – October 31, 1943 German KIA/MIA/WIA was 1.6 million and got about 1.2 million replacements.

November 1 1944 OKW gives total of 2.1 million German soldiers on the Eastern front (and that is after the horrible losses in the July/August fighting and Hitler building up the force that would be involved in the battle of the Bulge)

July/August 1944 was terrible for the Germans as they had a total of 840.000 KIA/MIA (no numbers for WIA except the 400.000 on the Western front from June 6 to Nov 30 but most likely a majority in July/August)

Another figure says 214,000 killed, 626,000 wounded/missing on Eastern front from June to Nov.

I have no idea how accurate these numbers but nonetheless the Germans took a serious drain in manpower in just a couple of months.

http://www.feldgrau.com/stats.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~akarabal/WW2/WW2.htm


CBR