To date, one of the largest and most costly wars in human history was World War II. The war spanned three continents and four oceans, with 110 million troops and more than 51.2 million deaths.
The person who pushed this world war to the climax was Hitler, who promoted fascism, and because of his rise to power, Germany's frenzied expansion of armaments and wars plunged the Western battlefield into a sea of blood. However, with the formation of the Allies against fascism and the Battle of Stalingrad, the Western theater began to enter a strategic turning point in favor of the Allies. ??????
Hitler
In the spring of 1945, the Allies won the Battle of Berlin; on April 30 of the same year, Hitler committed suicide in the basement. Streller's suicide has made the world ask how many troops he had in his hands when he died? Are the Germans really at the end of their rope?
Of course, although Mussolini, who was invincible and sloppy, could not fight to the last soldier, Hitler, who was determined to the point of paranoia, said and did the same. Before Hitler committed suicide, the German army seemed to have a huge scale of millions, but it was a ragtag group with no food, no weapons and ammunition, and morale was even more plummeting, and Germany had long been exhausted and ran out of food under the blows of tens of millions of troops in the Allies.
Take, for example, the main Strategic Campaign Group of the German Army, the most elite german unit, the Central Group formed on June 22, 1941, with a total strength of about 1.45 million people, equipped with 2,156 tanks, divided into 50 combat divisions. ?????
Army Group Center
Since the founding of Army Group Center, it has been a sharp dagger inserted by Hitler into the heart of the Soviet Union, and this army has made great achievements for Hitler on the battlefields of Europe. However, since 1944, the German army has ushered in a day of defeat, at the end of this year, the total strength of the regular army of Army Group Center is only 580,000 people, and in order to make up for the shortage of troops, Hitler also formed a national commando with a total of 200,000 people.
However, the combined number of the two armies is less than 1/3 of the army in the heyday of the original army. According to relevant information, when the news of Hitler's death came out, the number of army group center was only 100,000 people, and this team was the only remaining force left in Hitler's hands after his death. ??????
The Red Army
At the time of the Decisive Battle of Berlin, the Total Strength of the Red Army reached 464,000, and was equipped with 12,700 cannons, 12,000 Katyusha rockets and 1,500 tanks. Hitler, who still refused to surrender at this time, gathered all the German troops in Berlin, a total of 60,000 fighters, including police, escorts and even women's assembled STORM Troops and Youth Regiments.
Such a disparity in military strength had already determined the final outcome of the battle, not to mention that army group center was trapped in the Prussian campaign and could not be supported at all, so Hitler's defeat was doomed. ????
Battle of Berlin
Judging from the comparison of military forces, the German army has already lost this war. Not only that, the Soviet army's strong hostility and sense of revenge towards the German army led to the complete defeat of the German army. When the Soviets attacked Berlin, they did not have the slightest pity for the city's monuments and local residents.
Because, on the Soviet-German battlefield, the German army treated Soviet prisoners of war as livestock, and those nearly 2 million Soviet prisoners of war who died of killing and starvation completely awakened the killing spirit in the bones of the Soviet army.
The hatred of hundreds of thousands of people for Hitler made him clearly aware that the German Nazis had ushered in the day of their downfall, so when the German army was still stubbornly resisting at Hitler's orders, Hitler had already begun to take care of the aftermath for himself. The German army, which had lost its main backbone, had no possibility of winning the war against the Soviet army.