Thus the grand total of losses amounted to 8,668,400.[51][page needed] This is the official total dead, but other estimates give the number of total dead up to almost 11 million men, including 7.7 million killed or missing in action and 2.6 million POW dead (out of 5.2 million total POWs), plus 400,000 paramilitary and Soviet partisan losses.[52] The majority of the losses, excluding POWs, being e