As the initiator of the two world wars, Germany's performance in World War I and World War II was very different. In both world wars, Germany was faced with a two-front war situation, in which Germany was still able to keep the national gate from being breached, and the Allies tried their best to break through the Rhine defense line. In World War II, the German capital Berlin became the trophy of the Allies. Why is this the case? The key may be the earth-shaking changes in Russia.
The pattern of World War I and World War II was basically the same, with Germany fighting on two fronts, one side resisting Britain, France and the United States, and the other resisting Russia. In World War II, Germany also took the initiative and occupied France first. For this reason, if the Allies wanted to land in Europe, they had to start with a landing operation. It can be said that the situation on the Western Front of World War II itself is ten thousand times more difficult than that of World War I. But the Soviet Union and Tsarist Russia in World War I were no longer on the same level.
Tsarist Russia was a backward agrarian country, while the Soviet Army was a mature industrial country. It was the Soviet-German war that made the German army lose all its fighting spirit, and only then was it beaten to pieces. The rout of the German army began during the attack on the Soviet army. During World War I, the soldiers of Tsarist Russia were not very effective, they should be agricultural countries, and many soldiers still used large knives and spears. The Germans had already begun to use the Maxim machine gun. In East Prussia, the Germans annihilated 250,000 Russians with only 25,000 casualties. It can be said that it is a complete crushing.
At the beginning of World War II, the German army also made great achievements in the eastern battlefield, swallowing millions of Soviet troops at once. But the Soviet Union had grown into an industrial country. After the Soviet army's combat effectiveness was restored, it fought several victorious battles on the eastern front, and even if there was no western battlefield, the Soviet army could defeat the German army in one brain.
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