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Mark1 · 12-10-2020, 03:08 AM

It was a very bad time for animals, as well as people, on both sides of the eastern front in WW2.
It's well documented that the 200,000 survivors of the German 6th Army trapped at Stalingrad, faced starvation. By the first week of January 1943 they had eaten all 23,000 of their draught horses, some thousand or so bullocks and camels and all 600 of the military police dogs. Total losses of Wehrmacht horses during the failed Stalingrad campaign was over 150,000 animals.
That the German Army of the Nazi era was so dependent on draught animals was a surprise to me.

12-10-2020, 03:08 AM	#5
Mark1 User Join Date: May 2008 Location: New Zealand Posts: 72 Thanks: 332 Thanked 74 Times in 25 Posts	It was a very bad time for animals, as well as people, on both sides of the eastern front in WW2. It's well documented that the 200,000 survivors of the German 6th Army trapped at Stalingrad, faced starvation. By the first week of January 1943 they had eaten all 23,000 of their draught horses, some thousand or so bullocks and camels and all 600 of the military police dogs. Total losses of Wehrmacht horses during the failed Stalingrad campaign was over 150,000 animals. That the German Army of the Nazi era was so dependent on draught animals was a surprise to me.