On finding accurate figures......

Do you think finding correct figures for the Eastern front will probably be always hard to find, Stalins regime held back defeats [eg Mars] and lied [eg Katyn massacre] although old Soviet secret archives are now being opened up.

On the other hand the German version of the war, written straight after the war by their historians and in particular, Wehrmacht commanders, also were prone to to be often loose with the facts.

Glantz claims that in Manstein's book Lost Victories,[which I haven't read] opposing force ratios are in conflict with those shown by archival materials of Fremde Heeres 0st Gehlen's organizations, and of the OKH. Soviet superiority's are often overstated.

He says the dominant role of German source materials in shaping American perceptions of the war on the Eastern Front and the negative perception of Soviet source materials have had an indelible impact on the American image of war on the Eastern Front. What has resulted in a series of gross judgments treated as truths regarding operations in the East and Soviet Army combat performance. The gross judgments appear repeatedly in textbooks and all types of historical works, and they are persistent in the extreme. Each lies someplace between the realm of myth and reality.