how many soldiers died IN germany?

[Sailboat]

@spifflog

I’d argue that it’s not exclusively an American thing, but a human thing.

We all think we’re at the “center of the universe.”

Concur. Even Europeans have blind spots about WWII history; it isn’t exclusively an American failing, as my conversations with a German exchange student revealed.

[AK84]

@Dissonance

To take a very (very) rough stab at some numbers, the official figures of US Army strength and casualties in the ETO broken down by month is here. From March the fighting was largely in Germany, adding the numbers from March til May they come to:

18,834 KIA
66,736 WIA
2,803 Died of Wounds

Again, this is a very rough and entirely imprecise set of figures, but I’d guess it is fairly close to the number of US soldiers who were killed or wounded in Germany.

Only a bit more than the British casualties during the First Day on the Somme.

[foolscap]

@Shakester

Hopefully we agree that “Russians” as a general word for the peoples of the USSR is wrong.

My friend IS russian(ethnic), and I refer to myself as American (even if I should say
United States American)
.
What was important to us, is, how many of our bunch were involved.
we kinda ignore everyone else. In a perfect world this shouldn’t happen
but, it does.

[Captain_Amazing]

@Shakester

Hopefully we agree that “Russians” as a general word for the peoples of the USSR is wrong.

It’s not wrong. It’s called synecdoche, and it’s an established rhetorical device.