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the lied on their population numbers. optimistic projections put them at 38-39 pre war (including Crimea for some reason) and around ~20 mil left who will never ever return, including a lot of fighting age males, and an ungodly amount of reproductive age girls and young women.
Most estimates put their population at around 19 mil a few years back, so half are male (9 mil), our of them fighting age would be around half (4.5 mil) and fit for service (around 3.5-3 mil).
Now exclude jews, turks and others who get exemption or work as meatcatchers and you get around 3 million potential soldiers from the start.
The tactic of moving slowly and letting hohols kill themselves in meat waves pays off real well.