The toll of the final struggle was immense, for Germans as well as for their victims and the Allies. Of the 5.3 million German soldiers killed in the war, half died in the final ten months. The Nazis threw Hitler Youth, women and old men into battle.

Source: Trentmann, Frank. Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 (p. 69). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.