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No, if so there would be no non-military German civilians in ww2, and the Germans would pretty much be extinct.
The Germans were fighting the Russians. The German army included nationalities from countries they occupied, such as Poland. Also, since Hitler had sent German troops to help Italy fight in North Africa, Mussolini sent some Italian soldiers to help the Germans. In fact, after the German VI Army was surrounded, the 6th Italian Alpini Regiment lead a group of Italians and Germans in a break-out through the Russian lines.
The objective of the Battle of Stalingrad was the Germans wanted to capture the town named after the Prime Minister of Russia and then cross the Volga river in order to continue their advance into Russia. The Germans lost the battle and the German VI Army was surrounded and surrendered. The Germans had to retreat in order to re-group. Stalingrad was where the Russians stopped the advance of the German army and they began to push them back out of Russia over the next year.
The Germans lacked Hoth's 4th Panzer army which would have helped to capture the city of Stalingrad but instead the 4th Army was assisting Manstein in the Crimean peninsula . The loss of Paulus' 6th Army at Stalingrad was a crushing defeat for the Wehrmacht which the Germans never recovered from and lost momentum which was never regained and marked a signal victory for the Russians and was a significant morale booster to Russian war efforts .
The Russians backed out of World War I due to the Bolshevik Revolution, which created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Russia did NOT back out of World War II. Russia had a non-aggression pact/trade agreements with Germany until the German Army launched Operation Barbarossa, breaking the treaty and invading Russia. The Russian Army held the Germans at Leningrad and Stalingrad, eventually defeating the Germans at Stalingrad while taking 300,000 Germans prisoner. From there, the Russians pushed the German army back to Berlin, capturing the Reichstag, or the German equivalent of the US capital building. In fact, the Russian army was responsible for defeating around 65% of all German forces, while Russia recieved 6 million casualties.
Yes, it had a large Army. This army was out-fought & then defeated by the German Army.
No , the Germans suffered a significant defeat at the hands of the Russians losing the battle for the city of Stalingrad ; one which the Germans never recovered from since the Russians from that point on had the initiative .
The Nazis never had an entire army of their own, but they had the German Army under their direction, and it was a very good army which was very difficult to beat. There is a tendency to confuse German and Nazi in World War 2, but not all Germans were Nazis, just as not all Americans are Democrats. In WW2 it was not even required that a German general be a member of the Nazi Party, and actually most of them were not.
The Romans were defeated by the Germans at the battle of Teutoburg Forest which was one of the biggest Roman defeats
The Romans were defeated by the Germans at the battle of Teutoburg Forest which was one of the biggest Roman defeats
No, the German army was the army for Germany and the Nazi's was a party created by Adolf Hitler during his rise of the Third Reich. Since Hitler was the Furher the German army fought for Hitler during the war
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There were quite a few soldiers named Weisz in the German Army but many more Germans with the spelling of Weiss were Nazi's.
He made them believe that they were redeeming themselves after the crushing defeat of Germany in World War I
No, if so there would be no non-military German civilians in ww2, and the Germans would pretty much be extinct.
The Germans were fighting the Russians. The German army included nationalities from countries they occupied, such as Poland. Also, since Hitler had sent German troops to help Italy fight in North Africa, Mussolini sent some Italian soldiers to help the Germans. In fact, after the German VI Army was surrounded, the 6th Italian Alpini Regiment lead a group of Italians and Germans in a break-out through the Russian lines.
The Russians in Stalingrad lost the battle and the Germans occupied it. The Russians waited. A cold winter was approaching and the German's supply lines were cut by the Russians. German soldiers only had their summer uniforms and no cold weather gear. After most of the German army starved and froze to death the Russians came in and slaughtered the Germans when the Germans had no will to fight. The pincer movement, one of Germany's tactics, was used against the Germans.