re: How were German armored divisions so much more elite than their US counterparts

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Without US troop involvement, not just Overlord, I firmly believe that Soviet Russia loses the war.

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I used to believe that, too.

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Germany can use the divisions, and Rommel, from Africa and more troops from fortress Europe against the Soviets.

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All true. Of course, a lot of that would have been tied down in France expecting an invasion. The only way to have guaranteed no invasion would have been to take Britain - and that would have posed its own challenges.

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This would have been enough to destroy the red army.

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Germany didn't have enough, short of developing nuclear weapons, to destroy the Red Army - once Soviet production was relocated to the Urals.

The Soviets put almost 35 million men in the field during the war - around half of the total pre-war population of Germany.

Staggering - think about that - 35 million - and a 1/4 of those guys got killed.