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Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [152]
It really wasnt. What it was was significant for post war world of communism vs capitalism and for influence of what countries. The war was decided at Stalingrad some say earlier that at Smolensk in 21 the winner was already foretold as it showed resistance was now starting and deep operations or the doctrine of deep operations vs blitzkrieg which was the German way of war at this point.
The German plan was to establish a line near urals or archangelks:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-A_line
They did not even get to Moscow and failed in every way possible even in 41. There was zero chance of them winning unless they did everything right and Guderian and Mainstein literally had hitler imprisoned and would take over high command since inception of the campaign in addition to the total war directive. Thats how outmatched they were. And they would have had to only focus on the soviet union and continue to go past this archangelks line because stalin showed he had a incredible resiliance and ability to continuously shift factories and industry east like into the urals to bust out tanka fter tank t34 after t34 24/hr women working all night all day factories. It was really a losing effort from day one just a question of how long. Maybe there was a chance in there if they got more motarized and either waited till after spring 42 and got more european allies onboard but who knows.
"The plan was for the Red Army to the west of the line to be defeated in a quick military campaign in 1941 before the onset of winter.[5] The German Wehrmacht assumed that the majority of the Soviet military supplies and the main part of the food and population potential of the Soviet Union existed in the lands that lay to the west of the proposed A-A line.[5] If the line were reached, the Soviet Union would also be deprived of around 86% of its petroleum assets (oil territories in the Caucasus).
The A-A line as the end-goal of military hostilities was chosen because an occupation of the entire Soviet Union in a single military campaign was considered impossible in view of its geographic dimensions. The remaining Soviet industrial centers further eastward were planned to be destroyed by aerial bombardment, for which an entire Luftflotte ("air fleet"; equivalent in status to an army group) was to be assigned.[5]"
If they just bypassed Stalingrad and hitler didnt care that it had stalins name on it and focused on the oil in 42 that may have been their last chance or hailmary chance. But they supposedly burnt or made the crude oil production impossible for like a year or two ayway so who knows. the 42 plan was quite brilliant tho to totally forego moscow and focus on resources or crude oil only when it came to stalingrad they fuked themselves up. it really meant nothing.
But the fact they couldnt take it after getting so close and pulling so many resources to do it and same with leningrad where single cities held out shows they lost from the get go. and no crappy d day or americans meant anything., they couldnt take individual cities lol. and warsaw uprising mwans garbage little for anyone outside of polaks or the war efforts btw.
Even if Guderian and Mainstein had total control and say they reached this line the AA r Archangelsk line in 42 and actually dug in instead of fanatically going for moscow in 41 when snow started hitting. how the fuk would they even win then with fuking aerial bombardments? you got to be kidding me. they were retarded like hitler and soviets still would have won.
"The remaining Soviet industrial centers further eastward were planned to be destroyed by aerial bombardment, for which an entire Luftflotte ("air fleet"; equivalent in status to an army group) was to be assigned."
Or sorry I apologise. The great Rodinya the Great Rosiyyyya The Great Russia Mother Russia would have won.