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WW2: Britain Declares War on Germany to Save Poland [290]
The truth is in in the numbers.
Eastern front:3,5 million German soldiers with 8000 tanks against 6 million Soviets with 14000 tanks.
Italy front:200000 Germans with 500 tanks against 500000 Angloamericans with 1500 tanks.
Western front:600000 Germans with 1500 tanks against 1.2 million Angloamericans with 4000 tanks.
There is no comparison between eastern and western front.Had the Germans the opportunity to remove from the eastern front just 30% of their forces there,that is 1 million men and 2500 tanks to the Western front,the allied forces would have had simply no chance against them.They would have been kicked to the sea.
Churchill waited for three years before launching attack on Normandy in order to cope with a german army weakened and exhausted from the slaughter in eastern front.
Between 1941-1944 the red army killed or captured over 2.5 million german soldiers while the british army killed and captured maximum 200000 german soldiers.
The weight of the war between 1941-1944 fell almost entirely on Soviet army which suffered extreme losses.1 million Soviet soldiers were killed only in operations in Poland,Hungary and Germany between 1944-1945.The red army lost 8 million soldiers during the war.
In comparison the US had only 300000 soldiers dead and UK about 800000 casualties.
The point is if US had to suffer over 1 million corpses,would it be able to continue the war?Would anybody support such a war?Of course the Soviets could not protest against the slaughtering and this was the advanatge of the totalitarian governements of Hitler and Stalin.They could afford more losses,so they could operate better in front.
The americans had hordes of technicians,economists and personell which counted in detail the soviet losses before and after in order to provide them the right amount of supplies.They did not provide a lot,so that red army becomes extremely powerful but not less than needed to continue being able to kill Germans.