Percentage of ‘non-Germanic’ troops who helped start Operation Barbarossa
Percentage of ‘non-Germanic’ troops who helped start Operation Barbarossa
‘Finland mobilized a greater proportion of its small population than any of the other combatants, including Germany (476,000 men from 3.7 million inhabitants). […] Relative to the Finnish population (3.7 million), this was a greater mobilization than in any other country involved in the Second World War. […] Together [Berlin’s] allies in 1941 mobilized well over 700,000 troops for the war against the Soviet Union[.]’
— David Stahel