The European battlefield during World War II is, without exaggeration, the main battlefield between Germany and the Soviet Union.
The two sides engaged in a deadly battle between you and me in the vast plains of Eastern Europe.
Germany relied on solid military training and advanced combat equipment on the battlefield, while the Soviet Union had an indomitable will to fight and a steady stream of man-sea tactics.
But why at the end of World War II, the Soviet Union has gained battlefield superiority and eliminated a large number of German forces, but it has always urged Britain and the United States to open up a second battlefield in western Europe, I will explain the reasons for this.
According to the war data released by the German federal government in 1999, we will find that during World War II, especially between 1941 and 1945, when it was at war with the Soviet Union, a total of 3.8 million German troops who fought against the Soviet Union on its eastern front died, plus 360,000 people who died after being captured, for a total of 4.17 million German soldiers died at the hands of the Soviets.
That may seem like a lot, but we need to see how many German troops were requisitioned in Total in World War II, and how much of them were placed on the Eastern Front.
According to data provided by the German federal government, Germany mobilized a total of 12 million troops during World War II.
In order to defend against Anglo-American attacks on the Atlantic coast, the Germans built the Atlantic Barrier and deployed 1.87 million people here at the most.
According to the German data of 1942, the total Strength of the German Army reached 8.1 million in this year, of which 5.7 million were deployed on the Eastern Front.
According to the data released by Germany after the war on the Eastern Front, we can see that the death data of the German army is rising every year, which is 302495 deaths in 1941, 506815 deaths in 1942, 700653 deaths in 1943, 1232946 deaths in 1944, and 1074520 deaths in 1945, for a total of 3817429 people.
Relatively speaking, we look at the Death Data of the Soviet Army, because the Data of the Soviet Union has always been relatively vague, and the more convincing thing is that the Soviet Death Data released in 1991 during World War II was 6.88 million, and if the number of captured deaths is added, this figure will rise to 8.66 million, and if the number of wounded and missing people is added, this data will be more than 10 million.
During World War II, the Soviet Army mobilized a total of 34.4767 million people to join the army, which seems to be a large number, but we have to take into account that this figure already accounts for more than one-fifth of the total population of the Soviet Union, and more than one million of them have to be stationed in the Far East to guard against a possible Japanese attack.
This also means that the Soviet Union has incorporated all its own labor force into the army sequence, its own logistics, that is, military industry and people's livelihood production, have been completely handed over to the remaining old and weak women and children, and without the military assistance of the United States, the Soviet Union can hardly launch a counterattack against Germany.
On the other hand, we look at the ratio of german and Soviet losses to 1:3, even if the Soviet Union tries its best to eliminate the German army alone without sacrificing, the Soviet army's 34 million troops may only leave less than 5 million old, weak, sick and disabled, and after the elimination of Germany, they still need to face their former class enemies Britain and the United States, not to mention that the British and American homeland has not been greatly affected, has a strong war potential, and the potential of the Soviet Union has long been squeezed out.
This is why the Soviet Union, after eliminating 4 million German troops, continued to urge the United States to open a second battlefield in Europe, despite having a great numerical superiority in troops.
In turn, we must also see that in 1944, the Soviet army in several counterattacks, has reached the front line to The German mainland, if at this time the United States and Britain and other countries do not establish a second battlefield in western Europe, then Europe will almost unexpectedly become the territory of the Soviet Union, which is absolutely unacceptable in the eyes of Britain and the United States and other countries, not to mention that Germany still has a large amount of booty, worthy of their contention.
Although the opening of the second european battlefield was more a decision made by the United States and the Soviet Union out of their own considerations, it is undeniable that this decision effectively promoted the early conclusion of World War II and laid the foundation for the people of the world to end this century catastrophe as soon as possible.
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