Comments by "Old Guy Gaming Network" (@CRAZYHORSE19682003) on "Top 10 Battles in History" video.

  1. Wrong, Stalingrad was the deathblow to the German army, they never again had any large scale offensives on the Eastern front. D-Day was a minor battle that was insignificant in the outcome of the war. If there was no D-Day than the Germans would have still lost the war. You are also wrong on it being the first successful allied invasion of German occupied territory in Europe. The allies invaded Italy in 43.
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  2. Stalingrad was the DECISIVE battle that Germany could never recover from. From a simple manpower standpoint a small country like Germany could never replace those losses. From Stalingrad on the Germans were on the defensive until the fall of Berlin.
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  3. Kursk was not really that important. The Germans were already beaten and Kursk was a hail mary for the German Army. It was the final attempt to reverse the momentum on the Eastern front but it never had a chance of success any more than the battle of the bulge had.
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  4. You are incorrect, there were NEVER more than 40% of the German armies strength in the west. The Russians did 90% of the heavy lifting in the European theater and would have defeated the Germans without the western powers.
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  5. The Germans were so far behind on launching the attack and the Soviets could break the German codes. The Russians knew EXACTLY where the Germans were going to attack and they had time to put in a 3 layered defense. The Germans NEVER had a chance at Kursk...it was the biggest ambush in history.
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  6. The Russians produced more T-34's in a single month than Germany produced Armored vehicles during the ENTIRE WAR. The Germans were NEVER going to be able to even come close to producing the weapons of war on the same scale as the Soviets.
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  7. Stalingrad was both the turning point and the breaking point. Germany could never recover from those losses. Kursk was a desperate gamble on the part of Hitler to reverse Germany's fortune on the Eastern front. None of his Generals wanted to fight that battle. None of his generals thought they could win. All of his generals thought fighting at Kursk would hasten the German defeat by as much as 2 years. If the Germans had won at Kursk......would it have gotten them ANYTHING? That answer is no because any victory would have been a Pyrrhic victory. Germany would have emerged to weak to exploit any openings in the Russian lines. The Russians could have simply moved in large reserve formations and smashed what was left of the German formations. Kursk was just like the battle of the Bulge...a desperate gamble by a mad man who couldn't face the reality that the war was lost.
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  8. I have studied Kursk extensively, yes it was the largest tank battle in history. However is was a desperate gamble on the Germans part. It had no real chance of succeeding. The Germans put all of their eggs in one basket. All Kursk did was hasten the rate at which the Germans would be defeated. Stalingrad eliminated ANY chance the Germans had to win the war on the eastern front.
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  9. By June 1944 the war in the European theater was already decided. If we never invaded the Russians still defeat Germany in about the exact same time period. Yes Normandy was a huge operation but it's impact on the war was negligible.
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  10. Here is a map of the Eastern Front in 1944 http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)?file=Eastern_Front_1943-08_to_1944-12.png Please learn some history before you start barking on a subject you clearly know nothing about. The Russians had already beaten Germany by June 1944. Their defeat was inevitable and there was nothing the Germans could do about it. The invasion of Normandy was irrelevant in the final outcome of the war. The only thing it accomplished is preventing all of Europe from falling under Soviet occupation.
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  11. I am a US Army veteran....I am also a military historian. D-Day was not the turning point, only people with a biased view of history see it that way. The Turning point of the war was Stalingrad.....PERIOD. It is also where the Germans lost any hope of winning the war.....PERIOD. The biggest contribution the United States and England made in the European theater was bombing the German industry and infrastructure.....crippling the Germans ability to produce the weapons of war. The second biggest contribution the allies made in the European theater was tying down 40% of the German military on occupation duty and defense of a potential invasion. That seriously hampered the Germans ability to conduct operations on the Eastern front. When the Allies finally did invade France the war was already over...Germany had NO CHANCE to win. Please do a little research yourself before you start calling people retards.
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