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It would have been a miracle.  Here's What You Need to Remember: Berlin made many bad assumptions and therefore had the wrong strategy. Hubris and bad planning would doom the Germans as they tried to seize the vast territories of Russia. Even by the standards of World War II, the Eastern Front stands out as a cauldron of horror.  Over four years of war, millions of soldiers and civilians died as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union pummeled each other relentlessly. Although the Germans inflicted serious damage in 1941 and 1942, the Red Army took the offensive in late 1942 at the Battle of Sta...

Even by the standards of World War II, the Eastern Front stands out as a cauldron of horror.

At this point in the war, Germany could not replace its losses. Here's What You Need To Remember: The Nazis failed spectacularly in the summer of 1944 for three main reasons - elaborated below. The Soviet army’s Operation Bagration offensive in June 1944 destroyed their greatest nemesis — Nazi Germany’s Army Group Center — and drove hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops and thousands of tanks from east of Minsk into the Third Reich itself. It was, arguably, the greatest disaster for Germany in World War II, ironically kicking off three years to the day after Germany’s invasion of ...