Question about Division numbers (Why so low?) and Casualty Totals

[monkspider]

Thanks for the replies guys. Interestingly, I am currently in the middle of reading Manstein's memoirs and just came across this passage about the state of the German army in 1944.

"In the same connexion we had to report that for the immediate defence of a 440-mile Dnieper front, the three armies left to the Army Group had a total of thirty-seven infantry divisions at their disposal. (This figure included three which were at present on their way out to us. Five divisions whose fighting power was completely spent had been absorbed into other formations.) In other words, every division would be responsible for some 12 miles of front.As against this, the average number of soldiers fit for front-line combat duties per division was now only about 1,000 - a figure which would not rise above 2,000 even after the promised replacements had arrived. Obviously no decisive defence could function on this basis, even from behind the Dnieper."