This article contains a list of battles and military campaigns with most German military deaths.

Introduction This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of German military fatalities exceed 1,000. The term casualty in warfare refers to a soldier who is no longer fit to fight being in combat. Casualties can include killed, wounded, missing, captured or deserted.

In this article the numbers of killed refer to those killed in action, killed by disease, missing presumed dead, or someone who died from their wounds.

Battles Battle or siege Conflict DateEstimated number killed Opposing forceReferences Battle of Verdun World War I France Battle of Berlin World War II Soviet Union Poland Battle of Smolensk (1941) World War II Soviet Union First Battle of Kiev World War II Soviet Union Battle of Łódź World War I Russia С.Г. Нелипович, 2019, рp. 148–149 Battle of the Ardennes World War I France Battle of Monte Cassino World War II United Kingdom British Raj Newfoundland United States Free France Poland Canada New Zealand South Africa Italy Siege of Breslau World War II Soviet Union Tomasz Głowński, Festung Breslau 1945. Anatomia bitwy, Wrocław 2025, pp. 479-480 Battle of the Seelow Heights (part of the Battle of Berlin) World War II Soviet Union Poland Battle of Lyuban World War II Soviet Union Falaise pocket World War II United States United Kingdom Canada Poland France D'Este, pp. 430–431Wilmot, pp. 422, 424Tamelander, Zetterling, p. 342 Battle of the Bzura World War II Poland Battle of Gravelotte Franco-Prussian War France Battle of Bautzen World War II Soviet Union Poland Battle of Humin-Bolimów World War I Russia С. Нелипович, 1915, 2022, p. 52 Battle of Uman World War II Soviet Union Third Battle of Kharkov World War II Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Battle of Mars-la-Tour Franco-Prussian War France Siege of Sevastopol World War II Soviet Union Forczyk 2008, p. 90. Battle of the Mons pocket World War II United States Belgium Battle of Gdynia World War II Poland Piwnicki, Grzegorz (2009). Polski wrzesień 1939 w Gdyni (in Polish). pp. 192–193. Second Battle of Kiev World War II Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Liberation of Strasbourg World War II France United States Battle of Saint-Mihiel World War I United States France ref: William R. Griffiths: The Great War: Strategies & Tactics of the First World War. Square One Publishers, 2003. S. 161 Battle of Tannenberg World War I Russia Sanitätsbericht über das deutsche Heer im Weltkriege 1914/1918, III. Band, Berlin 1934, S. 36 Battle of Kissingen Austro-Prussian War Bavaria Österreichs Kämpfe im Jahre 1866. Nach Feldacten bearbeitet durch das k.k. Generalstabs-Bureau für Kriegsgeschichte. Fünfter Band (Vol. 5), Vienna 1869, chapter: Die Kriegsereignisse in Westdeutschland im Jahre 1866, III. Abschnitt, p. 75 and 81 (scan p. 249 and 255) digitalised Battle of Wörth Franco-Prussian War France Battle of Leuthen Third Silesian War and the Seven Years' War Austria Robert Asprey, Frederick the Great: A Magnificent Enigma, Ticknor & Fields, 1986, p. 43 Battle of Crete World War II United Kingdom Australia New Zealand Greece Battle of Sedan Franco-Prussian War France Battle of Borny–Colombey Franco-Prussian War France Battle of Rostov World War II Soviet Union Opération Vésuve World War II Italy Free France United Kingdom United States Royan pocket World War II France United States Pierre Montagnon, Dictionnaire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, 2011.

Campaigns Campaign Conflict DateEstimated number killed Opposing forceReferences Operation Bagration World War II Soviet Union Poland France Vistula–Oder offensive World War II Soviet Union Poland Operation Barbarossa World War II Soviet Union Battle of the Dnieper World War II Soviet Union Forczyk, Robert. The Dnepr 1943: Hitler's Eastern Rampart Crumbles. Osprey Publishing 2016, p. 91. Hundred Days Offensive World War I France United Kingdom Canada AustraliaNew Zealand Newfoundland South Africa United States Belgium Italy Portugal Siam Bobruysk offensive (part of Operation Bagration) World War II Soviet Union Beevor and Vinogradova, p. 273 Polotsk offensive (part of Operation Bagration) World War II Soviet Union Glantz, p. 117 Battle of Moscow World War II Soviet Union Vilno-Dvinsk offensive World War I Russia Mogilev offensive (part of Operation Bagration) World War II Soviet Union Glantz, Belorussia 1944, p. 97 Belostok offensive (part of Operation Bagration) World War II Soviet Union Meuse–Argonne offensive (part of the Hundred Days Offensive) World War I United States France Siam "Collier's New Encyclopedia: A Loose-leaf and Self-revising Reference Work". 1922. Page 209. Battle of France World War II France French Algeria French Morocco French Tunisia French West Africa French Madagascar French Indochina Belgium United Kingdom Netherlands Poland Canada Czechoslovakia Luxembourg Battle of the Bulge World War II United States United Kingdom Canada France Belgium Defence of the Reich World War II United States United Kingdom Canada Soviet Union France Belgium Netherlands Norway Poland Czechoslovakia North African campaign World War II United Kingdom India Newfoundland Free France Australia New Zealand South Africa United States Poland Greece Czechoslovakia Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive World War II Soviet Union Heeresarzt 10-Day Casualty Reports for Heeresgruppe Nordukraine (11.7-31.8.44) in Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (BA-MA) RW 6/559. Invasion of Poland World War II Poland Wojna obronna Polski 1939, ed. Eugeniusz Kozłowski, Warszawa 1979, p. 851 Belgrade offensive World War II Soviet Union Yugoslavia Bulgaria East African campaign World War I United Kingdom South Africa British RajRhodesia East Africa Protectorate Nyasaland Uganda Nigeria Belgium Belgian Congo Portugal Portuguese Mozambique Carpathian Campaign World War I Russia С.Г. Нелипович, 2022, p. 224 Baltic operation (Part of Operation Barbarossa) World War II Soviet Union Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 Campaigns, strategic operations and battles. Statistical analysis. Book 1: Summer-autumn campaign of 1941. Moscow, 2004. - Page 18. Odessa Offensive World War II Soviet Union Armeeoberkommando 6 Ia, KTB, Akte C, Band 28, Operationsakten. Aktenvermerk. Verluste und neu zugeführter Ersatz im April 1944. NARA T312, R1499, F000104. Allied invasion of Sicily World War II United Kingdom United States Canada Melitopol offensive World War II Soviet Union 1943 год Norwegian campaign World War II Norway United Kingdom France Poland Lunde 2009, p. 542Derry 1952, p. 230 Donbas–Rostov strategic defensive operation (Part of Operation Barbarossa) World War II Soviet Union Mikhail Zhirokhov 2011, Srazhenie za Donbass. Mius-front 1941—1943 [Battle for Donbas: Mius–Front. 1941–1943], Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf. ISBN 978-5-227-02674-3

See also List of battles with most French military fatalities List of battles with most Italian military fatalities List of battles with most United States military fatalities List of battles with most Canadian military fatalities

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