The German government maintains that its records lists 4.3 million dead and missing personnel .
ISBN 3-486-56531-1 page 228 `` Since the end of the 1990s , we have known that the total German military losses were actually far higher that had long been believed : close to 5,318,000 men '' However the German government still maintains that its records list not enough dead and missing military personnel .
German casualties in World War II