jupp only around 6000 men made it back…the last one came back in 1957 from p.o.w and many had to walk back to germany across russia and poland, you can imagine what some or most of the time happend to them when they where detected…
like the womens voice announced through a speaker during the time of encirclement in stalingrad "STALINGRAD - MASSGRAVEYARD…every 5 minutes dies a german soldier…
and those numbers of death for the battle of stalingrad are not even include the amount of soldiers dying on the way there when they walked from woronesh to stalingrad because of exhaustion…there is a good book out there called the “heart of the 6th army”.
I don’t know if their is an translated version out but the book tells you about the soldiers who suddenly died on their watch or where they stood because of starvation and exhaustion…hitler did send specialist in to figure out the reason but they couldn’t figure it out they said.
probably they don’t wanted to know the truth…