Total casualties on the Eastern Front as of 5th December 1941 were
750,000, or 23 per cent, of the average total strength
of 3,500,000 troops. Nearly one man in every four was killed, wounded,
or missing.
The Russians had suffered considerably greater losses, but they also
had the greater resources. Army Group Centre did not receive a single
fresh division in December 1941. The Soviet High Command, on the other
hand, switched to the Moscow front thirty fresh rifle divisions,
thirty-three brigades, six armoured divisions, and three cavalry
divisions.
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