Surviving accounts of the Munster siege report starvation deaths during the blockade, combat deaths in the final storming, and post-capture executions as separate, unreconciled figures rather than a single running total, and no modern historian has combined them into one reliable death toll for the episode as a whole.
What would resolve this A demographic or archival study working from Munster's own municipal and parish records, where they survive, to establish the city's population immediately before the siege and reconcile the chronicle accounts of starvation, combat and execution deaths into a single disaggregated total.
OpenReformation history; historical demographySigrun Haude, In the Shadow of "Savage Wolves": Anabaptist Munster and the German Reformation during the 1530s