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re: How were German armored divisions so much more elite than their US counterparts
Posted on 10/25/14 at 11:32 am to tbrig3211
Posted on 10/25/14 at 11:32 am to tbrig3211
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Without US troop involvement, not just Overlord, I firmly believe that Soviet Russia loses the war.
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.
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.
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.
This post was edited on 10/25/14 at 11:33 am
Posted on 10/25/14 at 11:41 am to Ace Midnight
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I used to believe that, too.
Funny thing is I used to believe what you believe. With Afika Corps the Nazi's cut off the oil fields of Azerbaijan from the Soviets and prevent Soviet breakthroughs around Stalingrad, starving them of vast supplies of oil. Without the oil the Soviet T-34 is useless. Accomplishing this objective would have also allowed the Nazi's to use less resources in developing synthetic oil.
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