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How intense was the Battle of Berlin?
Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:40 pm
Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:40 pm
You want to talk about a quick and bloody fire fight.
The battle was fought between April 16-May 2, 1945. In that time frame, both sides suffered a combined 985,000 casualties in and around the city. Of that number, 225,000 were estimated to have been killed in combat. All of that in the space of just over two weeks.
To have been a part of that final push. Wow. I can't even imagine being killed at the very end having survived so many horrors in the lead up to it.
The battle was fought between April 16-May 2, 1945. In that time frame, both sides suffered a combined 985,000 casualties in and around the city. Of that number, 225,000 were estimated to have been killed in combat. All of that in the space of just over two weeks.
To have been a part of that final push. Wow. I can't even imagine being killed at the very end having survived so many horrors in the lead up to it.
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Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:41 pm to RollTide1987
I was thinking the same damn thing while watching a ww2 doc on Netflix the other day, Russians and Germans went at it hardcore
Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:43 pm to RollTide1987
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Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:43 pm to RollTide1987
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The battle was fought between April 16-May 2, 1945. In that time frame, both sides suffered a combined 985,000 casualties in and around the city.
I lived in uptown in 94.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:45 pm to RollTide1987
Nazis >>> Tom Brady
Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:45 pm to RollTide1987
Look at that shite... Could you even imagine?
Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:47 pm to RollTide1987
the clean up crew was not pleased.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:50 pm to Rebel
Mostly Germans and Russians dead
Merica just cleaned up the mess
Merica just cleaned up the mess
Posted on 2/25/17 at 10:55 pm to Cosmo
Imagine the location for storing the dead bodies until they are ready to be taken care of. I'm guessing the used warehouses or some other enormous facility
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:15 pm to Cosmo
Eisenhower knew how bloody the battle for Berlin would be and did not want to suffer the casualties for taking it. It was more symbolic for the Russian and they wanted it and did not care about the casualties.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:19 pm to aVatiger
Russian losses in the period from 1914-1945 were mind-boggling. The Great War, the Russian Civil War, the Russo-Polish War, the purges, and then the Second World War. And yet, at the end of all that, they were still able to field armies that dwarfed the Germans. fricking incredible.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:19 pm to ornagestorm
Russia lost 100,000 men taking Hungary alone. They did the heavy lifting to defeat the Nazi's. Most american's don't even know this.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:26 pm to miketiger
The Russians would have defeated Germany without our help. It would have taken longer, but was still inevitable. All we did was make sure Western Europe didn't become part of the Iron Curtain.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:29 pm to miketiger
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Russia lost 100,000 men taking Hungary alone. They did the heavy lifting to defeat the Nazi's. Most american's don't even know this.
They earned taking Berlin (they destroyed Germ,an divisions in one battle that the western Allies would face in in the entire war).Stalin was so afraid that they would get to Berlin before his forces could; he pushed them before they were ready and they suffered massively for it.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:30 pm to RollTide1987
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How intense was the Battle of Berlin?
Like, so intense. You wouldn't even believe it.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:33 pm to Sayre
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The Russians would have defeated Germany without our help.
Not even doubtful, but hell no. We (the US) basically outfitted the Russian Army, sending them thousands of trucks, tanks, and airplanes, not to mention ammunition, uniforms, shoes, railroad locomotives, etc.
They sent troops into battle without weapons, knowing that they would be able to pick up the weapons of their dead comrades along the way. They cleared minefields by running companies through them.
Even with all the help we gave them, Germany nearly conquered Stalingrad, Leningrad and Moscow.
Without our help, the Soviets were toast and the ungrateful bastards still don't acknowledge it.
LC
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:34 pm to aVatiger
almost 500k captured.
that's a big number.
that's a big number.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:36 pm to Rebel
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almost 500k captured.
And the crazy thing is many spent time in the gulags well after the war was over.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:38 pm to Sayre
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e defeated Germany without our help.
Whoa there settle down.
Yes the Russians did the bulk of the fighting by any measure, but they did it with our rifles, our planes, our tanks,our boots and our bombs. Hell even the food in their belly was ours.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 11:45 pm to TheGooner
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Whoa there settle down.
Yes the Russians did the bulk of the fighting by any measure, but they did it with our rifles, our planes, our tanks,our boots and our bombs. Hell even the food in their belly was ours.
Food, supply trucks, and support equipment yes. Tanks hellz no. The T-34 was one of the best tanks in the war and was a lot better than the Sherman. The bulk of their artillery, guns, ammunition, tanks, and planes was made in the Soviet Union.
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