Seven million troops in Hitler's hands? Do you add another one that is still trustworthy? Big Brother, you can pull it down! Before the Soviets and Germans fought each other, there were only eight and a half million troops.
After two years of conscription, the Germans were about to scrape the ground, and even the bottle division was recruited, and the German army doubled to seventeen million.
By the time of the Battle of Berlin, seeing that Germany was about to be crushed, Hitler's troops in his hands would have survived three million, and there could not be more.
And these troops were in the middle, and those who could listen to Hitler's dispatch were the only one million troops guarding Berlin. If there are any additional troops, it is also a temporary number of troops, such as the People's Stormtroopers, a bunch of old men and women carrying an iron fist to the battlefield.
Speaking of the real qualities of these teams, can they be called troops? No, this is the army, the whole is cannon fodder. This is just a number that Hitler came up with when he was finally dying. It is very good to put it on the books, at least the numbers have gone up, in fact, the actual combat effectiveness is like that.
You must know that in the whole Battle of Berlin, only the Soviet Union participated in the offensive, and Britain, the United States, and France all drilled into the ravines to investigate what German resurgence capital (in fact, there was nothing), and there was a lot of time to eat melons.
So in history, the Soviet Union finally mobilized a total of 2.5 million troops to carry out a final siege of Berlin.
In fact, in the original case of this matter, our Grandson's art of war has been nagged to the big guys, ten times the siege, five times the attack, the same times is divided, and the soldier who yields without fighting is the best strategy.
If Hitler really had seven million soldiers in his hands, according to the teachings of our grandson's art of war, the two and a half million Red Army of the Soviet Union would really have done something to Berlin, saying that the real Soviet Union had invested not enough troops to see, and it would not be enough to plug the gaps between the teeth.
And you must not forget that throughout the Second World War, the Germans' military equipment was not in vain, there was no quantitative advantage, and even the United States lamented that it was inferior, otherwise it would not have vigorously plundered German science and technology and scientists after the end of World War II and pulled it to its own turf.
This is a bit far away, let's pull back the conversation and continue to talk.
If you look at the entire Soviet-German campaign, no matter which one, the Soviet Union fought with overwhelming superiority in troops, and the strength of the troops could not go up, and it really could not be taken down.
Therefore, at the point of the Battle of Berlin, the German army was only three million, and Hitler could mobilize and join the Battle of Berlin by more than one million.
In this way, the Battle of Berlin, a battle, the Soviets also sacrificed more than 80,000 people, if you count the wounded, there are 300,000 people.
Of course, this narrative is indeed a bit dry, so let's recount the battle a little bit, and you will understand.
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Why? The Soviet plan to capture Berlin had already been brewing as early as 1944.
At this point in time, you should not be too early, after all, the battle between countries, do not prepare a few steps in advance, when the time comes to really hit the eyes, and then start to prepare, this is about to be blind.
Let's not talk about the deployment of military forces and the order of attack, but just talk about the preparation of various armaments and materials, and he will have to spend a long time.
The time of the attack on Berlin was determined on April 3, 1945, when the Red Army held a high-level operational conference in Moscow, organized by the High Command.
In addition to Stalin, the meeting included Zhukov, commander of the First Belorussian Front, and Konev, commander of the First Ukrainian Front, and a series of senior generals.
As soon as you say this, everyone knows that the last to besiege Berlin was the two fronts led by Zhukov and Koniev.
Because the two fronts were attacking one location, the General Staff at that time drew a combat demarcation line between the two fronts, which was equivalent to cutting a cake, one piece for each person.
After all, the capture of Berlin, whether it is left in the history of the Soviet Union or in the international arena, is a considerable honor and achievement.
As a result, Stalin disagreed with this plan of the General Staff, and directly wiped a part of the dividing line, redrawn it, and the final destination was placed in Lüben, southeast of Berlin.
Finally, a meaningful sentence was said: "Whoever is the first to invade Berlin will let him occupy it!" ”
In fact, this sentence has already told everyone that the collapse of the Germans is in front of them, and by the way, they have also inspired their two marshals to beat Hitler fiercely, and whoever fights fiercely, this honor is whoever it is.
Let's go back and look at Hitler's preparations.
In order to defend Berlin, Hitler was already desperate, he was thinking of building Berlin into an iron barrel, which meant that if he wanted to take Berlin, he would wait for his life to be exchanged.
If you don't want to, then sit down and talk about it, put the matter of World War II on the table and talk about the results.
This trick frightened the Americans well, but it could not scare the Soviets, and the hatred of the Soviet Red Army and the Germans in World War II was a deadlock that could not be solved, and there was no need to think about it without blood.
Even if the highest level of the Soviet Union agreed to this, the people below would not agree, after all, revenge and hatred are in front of them, and if you say no fight, it is impossible.
After holding back for four full years, I waited for this final blow.
So, we saw the Americans with the British and the French instigating first.
So in history, we have seen that when the Soviets were only sixty kilometers away from Berlin, and the Allied troops were still fighting the Ardenne Battle on the Rhine, the battle was not finished, they were almost five hundred kilometers away from Berlin, and on the distance of five hundred kilometers, there was a mountain and a river in the middle.
Why? Sixty kilometers is the distance of a layer of window paper for the torrent of steel, and one finger can be broken, and the click can rush to Berlin and break the wrist of the Germans.
At the distance of five hundred kilometers from the Allies, there is still a mountain and a river in the middle, and you don't have to say that you have several fingers, and it will take a lot of effort to cross the mountain and cross the river.
So in the end, Hitler's idea could only fail, and he had to face the anger accumulated by the Soviets at the beginning of the Soviet-German war, which could be seen as a volcanic eruption, and Mother Earth could not stop his anger.
Hitler was no longer in a position to fight on the Western Front, and began to draw troops to the east to fill the holes.
Speaking of this, I have to say that the entire battlefield of World War II was divided into the Western Front and the Eastern Front, and the Eastern Front and the Soviets fought a cruel battle, and eighty percent of the Germans' troops were left here to consume it? And the Allies on the Western Front, with twenty percent of the German soldiers, or all kinds of disgruntled German troops, fought hard, hey!
It was under these circumstances that Hitler squeezed out his forces from the Western Front, and in Berlin he painstakingly pieced together two armies, one was the Vistula Army Group and the other was Army Group Center, which together were only a million people.
Of this army of more than one million people, there are fifteen hundred tanks and self-propelled guns, more than 10,000 artillery and artillery shells, and three thousand three hundred combat aircraft.
For this reason, the Germans dug out three lines of defense in the Berlin area, the Oder River- Nice and the region, reaching a depth of twenty to forty kilometers.
Three defensive rings were built in Berlin, so that the germans' defense depth reached forty-five to eighty kilometers.
The Soviets, on the other hand, prepared eighteen synthetic armies, four tank armies, and four air force armies, for a total of two and a half million.
The hardware facilities were not bad at all, with 6,250 tanks and self-propelled guns, 42,000 artillery and mortars, and more than 7,500 aircraft. That one is more than the Germans, which is also a battle of wealth.
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Then, on April 16, 1945, at five o'clock in the morning, Zhukov was the first to issue a general attack order, and what mortars, artillery, and even Katyusha, whom we are familiar with, were on the field, and the baptism of artillery opened the prelude to the Battle of Berlin.
The entire German position on the west bank of the Oder River was instantly covered by various artillery shells and rockets, and the Germans had no room for counterattack.
But this was only the initial battle, and attacking Berlin was not easy to fight, and it was more and more difficult to nibble on the further back.
At the end of the day, Zhukov also broke through eight kilometers and was blocked by the second of the three outer lines of defense.
It was not until the evening of the next day that the second line of defense was broken.
By the morning of the third day, the capture of the Zelaufer Heights had led the Red Army into a wide frontal battlefield.
As soon as this is said, it is estimated that the big guys will know that the Soviet tanks will come in handy.
So in the face of the torrent of steel, by the fourth day, the entire Oder defense line was broken, and the Germans began to retreat to the city.
As for Konev's First Ukrainian Front, the attack was an hour later than That of Marshal Zhukov, and on the eighteenth, the task of forcibly crossing the Split River was also accomplished.
Even if the whole of Berlin was wrapped in dumplings, waiting for another opening, the first step of the siege was completed.
Of course, no matter how close it is, it is actually not necessary, in order not to give the Germans a chance to breathe, wait for them to be ready to go up.
So on the twentieth, Zhukov's First Belorussian Front began to attack the outskirts of Berlin.
A day later, they invaded the city.
The narrative in the middle is not very strong, let's talk about an incident on April 26th, which is quite representative.
By April 26, the Red Army had come to the German Armies of Frankfurt-Guben.
As soon as this matter hit the twenty-ninth, the Germans were compressed to a two-kilometer stretch, and the Germans really could not hold on, and planned to break through at night.
As for the breakthrough to that, this needless to ask, it is necessary to go west, which has become an old German custom.
As a result, the breakthrough was not very successful, and by may 1, more than 200,000 people of the entire Guben Group in Frankfurt, Germany, had been annihilated, and there was nothing left but 120,000 prisoners.
At this point, Berlin has begun to go crazy.
Why? At this point, the whole of Berlin was built by Hitler as a huge fortress.
The whole city was divided into nine defensive areas, and if you were in the environment at the time, if you looked up, it was all barricades, anti-tank obstacles, and so on.
As far as those buildings were concerned, the original window openings were sealed and turned into shooting holes one by one.
All kinds of anti-aircraft guns were also not empty, and they were pulled into the barricades to be used as anti-tank guns.
You don't talk about anti-aircraft guns, even the tanks and artillery that have not been repaired, as long as the barrels of the guns can fire shells, are stuffed into the barricades and become fire points.
Do you think you're done with that? No, on Hitler's orders, Germany also flooded the subway to prevent the Red Army from invading the various defensive zones from the subway lines.
You don't know that at that time, there were many people who took refuge in the subway line, and he drowned so much that there were many Germans who died in it.
In this case, there were also fleeing German soldiers, and the Nazi officers shouted and chased these fleeing soldiers.
So the whole of Berlin has become a hell on earth.
That is to say, if the Soviet Red Army wants to conquer Berlin, this is the most critical time, after all, in the war, street battles are always the most cruel and difficult, but this difficulty is nothing for the Soviet Red Army.
For they had been holding back for four years for this matter, and in the four years of weather the Germans had done no less bad things on Soviet soil, and it was time for revenge.
So in this situation, the Germans have no room to resist, and as for the last blow of the dying struggle, the failure is a matter that the nails on the board have long been set.
In this case, it is impossible to turn the tables, and Hitler can only commit suicide, after all, there is no room for him as a big devil in the world.