How many soldiers did the Germans commit to defending France?
How many soldiers did the Germans commit to defending France?
Could they have won the war in the Soviet Union, if they didn’t have to defend France as well?
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How many soldiers did the Germans commit to defending France?
Could they have won the war in the Soviet Union, if they didn’t have to defend France as well?
Germany attacked on too many fronts and were spent financially and depleted of petroleum. Hitler no longer trusted his commanding officers who in turn mistrusted him. Vichy France was being taken out by the French Underground and Germany’s days were numbered. By attacking Russia nearing winter, German soldiers moral was shot and they were poorly equipped with almost no ammunition, food, and winter supplies by the time the brutal Russian winter hit. To answer your question, yes Germany would have wiped Russia out early in the war because Nazi Germany took over all the oil fields in the Russian Caucasus while they were destroying France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and all of Eastern Europe as well as Southeastern Europe. Germanys problem was a poor Italian ally who could not fight this type of war on all these fronts. Early on in World War II, Germany was a juggernaut that was hell bent on world domination. A known fact is that Germany also sunk many American ships off the New York and Jersey shores and their submarines patrolled constantly in the Atlantic.
A couple million