The numbers are all wrong
The German forces never went under 2/3 of the eastern front
I dont know where you get 40% from maybe you were looking at divisions and got tricted by assumeing all divisions are the same size or maybe you were looking on the budget a great part of the budget in 44 was going into rockets and other miracle weapons. Also not all divisions are fighting all the time lots of men are resting or moveing from point A to B also many divisions were needed to keep down the people of the occupied countries
A division can be anywhere from 2000 --- 20000 depending on how under strength it is or how fat it is
Also the Axis did invade with 3.3 million germans but there was also 1 million axis allies (finland, romania, hungary and italy plus waffen ss)
Yes the soviets did have 5 million men but only 2.6 million of those were in the west 1,5 million were in the far east and the rest were around the country.
The Soviets did have more men for a full 2 weeks then the axis would have more men in battle untill 1943, so great were the soviet losses during 1941 that they were unable to gain back the advantage untill 43
Anyway just wanted to give my 2 cents about the numbers
Also the aircraft numbers are all wrong on D-day the germans had 3000 planes on the eastern front
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