Well Raging Reich, what are the names of these historians who chose 1944 as the year of "balance"?
A layman like me can't help but look at the map of Jan 1944/Jan 1945 and think 1944 was the year Red Army recovered all the conquered territories and made inroads to Central Europe.
Srry, bro I mean on a Russian-German only War ..... 1944 would've been a year on the eastern front like 1915/1916 at the western front most probalbly.
Two strong armys without a major advantage, I mean the western allies get underrated in their performance. They had an absolute huge impact on the eastern front, with lend-lease and constant bombing of the german industry ......
I remember a high Soviet Officer laughing about the slow british advance through france. The british faced the biggest concentration of 8,8mm Guns in History while the soviets mainly had to fight against decimated Infantry Divisions 1944. Simply the last well equiped and trained forces of german were situated at the Normandy.
it could have been an endless trench warfare on the estern front 1944 with an unclear year 1945, without western help. Year by year the soviets would become stronger due to higher birth rate, and bigger resources ....
I'm from Switzerland my mum is french my dad is german so and i only chose this name bec of it's coolness "Rage_of_the_Union", or "Rage_of_the_States" are options too, but don't sound so hard ^^
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