I guess the Russians liberated Italy, Africa, and Western Europe as well? Also the amount of casualties suffered on any given side is not the determining factor for military success. Thats like saying Iraq won the gulf war because they lost more men than we did.
The British, free French, and many other nations contributed to the war effort.
Hitler shouldn't have attacked Russia anyway until he had consolidated western Europe. His mistake was fighting a war on too many fronts. He had a nonagression pact with Stalin already. I feel for the loss of the Russian people and have great respect for their fighting ability, but it is completely inaccurate to say that the US didn't contribute to the war in Europe.
Would you agree with this?
"German forces in the Soviet Union reached Stalingrad and the Caucasus; Rommel seemed about to take Cairo; and German submarines were threatening to wipe out Allied shipping. Late in 1942, however, the Allies began to rally. In N Africa, British Gen. Montgomery's rout of Rommel at Alamein (Oct. 1942; see North Africa, campaigns in), and the landing of U.S. troops in Algeria, resulted in Allied victory in Africa. The Allies conquered Sicily and S Italy, and Italy surrendered (Sept. 1943). In the Pacific, U.S. forces won (1942) the naval battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, landed on Guadalcanal, and began the island-hopping strategy that by 1945 had won back the Philippines and brought a striking force to Japan's doorstep at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The German surrender at Stalingrad (1943; see Volgograd) was followed by a Soviet offensive that by 1944 had taken Russian troops deep into Poland, Hungary, and the Balkans. In the battle of the Atlantic, the German submarine fleet was virtually destroyed. German resistance in N Italy was stubborn, however, especially at Cassino and Anzio. On June 6, 1944 (known thereafter as D Day), the final Allied campaign began with the landing of troops in Normandy. In August a second force landed in S France. By late 1944 Belgium and France were liberated, and the war had been carried into the Netherlands and Germany. Allied bombing, meanwhile, was destroying German industrial centers. In Dec. 1944 the Germans staged a last-ditch counterattack in the Ardennes. By Jan. 1945, however, the Allies were continuing their drive into Germany. The Russians had conquered E Germany to the Oder. On Mar. 7 the Western Allies broke through the Siegfried Line, crossed the Rhine, and overran W Germany. In Apr. 1945, after Hitler's suicide, German resistance collapsed, and on May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered." |
