Various scholars have estimated the Axis suffered from 500,000 to 850,000 casualties ( killed , wounded , captured ) among all branches of the German armed forces and its allies , many of them POWs who died in Soviet captivity between 1943 and 1955 .
The Axis had from 500,000 to 850,000 casualties ( killed , wounded , captured ) among all branches of the German armed forces and its allies and only 5-6 ,000 returned to Germany by 1955 .