The German army also had men conscripted from outside of Germany’s 1937 borders, in Austria, and in east-central Europe, who also died in this battle.
In addition, as many of five million ethnic Germans died in Europe after WWII from targeted attacks, abuse, disease, hunger, and exposure — according to Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer who was the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963. He was co-founder and first leader of the Christian Democratic Union.