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It is no wonder that thousands of Germans froze to death that winter. By the turn of the year they had suffered about 100,000 cases of frostbite, more than 14,000 of which required amputations. By the end of that terrible winter the number of frostbite victims exceeded a quarter of a million, and more than 90 percent were second- and third-degree cases. To these must be added thousands of cases of pneumonia, influenza, and trenchfoot.
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All I can say is that was a terrible price to pay for someones sheer stupidity. I would not have wanted to be a German soldier there, or for that matter a Russian one either. I can't imagine the misery those men went through.