How was Germany able to inflict heavy casualties and losses to the Allies in the second World War.?

Question

Though USA & USSR were giant countries and part of the Allies, they have to struggle and had to take lot of efforts to push the Germans to the ground.

Answer 1

The Germans developed blitzkrieg and coupled it with the first tank groups, massive units of tanks. Most countries were too small to adequately resist the size of the German army. When German invaded France, they believed that German tanks would be unable to come through the Ardennes Forest because it was too densely forested.



Instead, entire German tank groups smashed through weak French lines. The French didn't put enough anti-tank weapons and their tanks were interspersed through their army rather than concentrated into large groups like that of the German army. As such, the German tank groups were basically unstoppable and the French army could not reorganize itself in time to save itself, resulting in massive encirclement and a situation relative hopelessness.



The USSR stationed much of its army on the border. German planes annihilated Russian planes while they were still on the ground while the tank groups again smashed through Russian positions (as they too lacked tank groups like the French had). This enabled wide encircling maneuvers that trapped and destroyed huge formations of Russians.



Then the Russians had production problems. They had more men than weapons, a situation which no one should want to deal with. The Germans, on the other hand, were well supplied and tore through the Russian armies as fast as they could. The Russians were basically sending men into the grind to desperately defend the ground they were losing.



The USA did not participate in any massive campaign where a decisive encirclement and rout of a German army was completed. Or vice versa (Germany annihilating an American army). Instead, they fought in Africa where there were limited numbers of soldiers and then in Italy where the front was tiny and easily defended (and the Germans on the defensive). The Normandy invasions were crippling to the Germans but the actual casualties inflicted were done by the Russians who had now developed their own tank groups and were taking advantage of the lack of mechanized vehicles the Germans had although resistance was still stiff.



German strategy was critical as was the lack of strategy by the Soviets in the early stages of the war. This was where the source of the extreme Allied casualties came from.

Answer 2

no longer an elementary question. Germany's defeat on the east front had no longer that lots to do with troop capability. Germany replaced into outnumbered there a million:10 from the initiating. maximum of Germany's defeat had to do with the alternative of stunning protection rigidity commanders with idiots and the creation of the T34 to the battlefield. mutually as being no tournament to the hot era of German tanks it replaced into affordable and could desire to be produced in numbers Germany could desire to easily dream of. yet without different fronts and extraordinarily without the air raids on the business complicated Germany could have been able to offer extra of those monsters. The management difficulty even inspite of the undeniable fact that could stay as they have been replaced at a time while Germany replaced into nevertheless slicing through Russia like a warm knife through butter.

Answer 3

The Third Reich military I believe consisted of every able bodied man in Germany. So it was huge!!

Answer 4

The Germans will rule the world again one day, the Allies always knew the Germans were stronger and much more efficient which is why they brought them down, was just jealously but they will rule again, its their destiny, as the economies of America, Britain, France and most other western countries begin to crumble the Germans are striding ahead.

Answer 5

the German troops where out numbered, but highly trained. with modern weopons. which in many cases where supior to their coounter parts. the Germans said one Panzer could knock out 5 Soviet tanks, but they couzld produce another 10 more.

Answer 6

The Germans are the best military people on the planet, that is why they have been 'multiculturalised'' to weaken them.

Answer 7

The Germans were overrated in the sense of people thinking they were invulnerable; Germany had an early advantage of being an aggressor who had prepared for war. Their tactic of blitzkriek were

well-defined and indoctrininated. The German forces were very flexible, and less rigid in their tactical approach to battlefield situations. They were highly mobile, and their tanks were well equipped with telecommunications. They had the best tanks, aircraft and infantry equipment.



The Germans were not unvulnerable. They relied on horses. The German military had weak resources of fuel/oil, and was forced to adopt creative solutions to these problems. The German Army was extremely vulnerable to morale problems due to its policy of ethnic cleansing/genocide. The German Army committed acts of mass murder ie. it exterminated 1/4 of the entire 4million population of Moldova. The German Army rolled into countries bringing with it mass murders of civilian populations and the seeds of guerilla warfare fought desperatly against such onslaughts. Also, the Germans bombed extensively civilian populations as well as military targets. The USA didn't lose

and strugglr against the Germans as much as other countries due to its late entry in the war and its relatively low numbers of contact with German forces. For example Russia lost more soldiers in the singular Battle of Stalingrad than the USA lost in soldiers in both the European and Pacific theatres of the War combined. The Russians had 5 such heroic cities desginated as such due to their harsh battlegrounds in their stance against Germany's aggression.



The Germans swept through Russia and initially were very successful ie. they were racking up statistics almost exactle the same as those in the invasion of France. Army after Army of Russian soldiers were being enveloped by the rapid German blitzkrieg. The German airforce was detroying the Russian airforce before it could get off the ground and interceptthe German drive forward. Millions of Russians were taken prisoners. Civilian populations were subject to cri,es of rape and mass murder. Russian children died from being used for blood tranfusions to wounded German soldiers.

Refugees from the holocaust in Eastern Europe had fled East into Russia. The Russians laid over 900miles of defensive workd before the gates of Moscow. Today there is a statue of Marshall Zukov

with one palm lifted up...and the quotation below readds 'They shall not Pass...'



Germany was perplexed ie. it had captured and killed millions and millions of Russians, and wiped out entire armies. Yet as winter came, and as their tanks and other equipment broke down and became vulnerable requiring massive overhauls and maintenance, there gradually emerfed some troubling signs. Despite, the heavy body count that German experts interpreted as Russian defeat,

and despite the terror the German army had inflicted, there were active partsons in their rear disrupting the German supply line, and there were no Russian war factories in reach of German bombers...so there was a sense of forboding because the Germans realized geographically they were deep in a country that had vast lands and factories and population far to the east out of range that was now preparing a vast counteroffensive while partison forces disrupted the German rear.



The German stats were wrong and the Russian Army launched its own blitzkrieg, wiped out the entire German Army at Stalingrad and relentlessly

tore the German army to pieces sending it reeling back into Germany. This fighting was very bloody.

Germany and fascist Polish troops at one point put 70,000 Russian prisoners on locked railroad cars

and abandoned them to die of exposure.



The German Army adopted an official policy of total ruthlessness ie. it gave no quarter, especially if you were Eastern European or Russian. British and American prisoners were treated relatively well by comparison. Germany guillotined over 100,000 German dissidents during the WW2 era.

Britain was subjected to massive bombing and V2 Rocket campaigns that hit mostly civilian targets, the idea was that such terror weapons would weaken British morale but it tended to have the opposite effect. In Russia too, the people rallied around Stalin instead of abandoning him mainly because he became perxeived as a patriarchal icon of Russia itself embattled against the German onslaught. I believe American heroism was most personified in the air war against Germany, and while Germany was initially successful, the mighty long range USA bombers were superior and could not be stopped. Such US aircraft as the P51 Mustang could not be matched by the German airforce. I would say that the allied airwar over France and Germany was in a sense the Wests's Stalingrad.

Germany initially had a technological advantage, but it lost that advantage by 1943.

Answer 8

by shooting them in the head.................with guns.