What do you mean "your" Ann? <your enormous loss > It didn't have anything to do with me and to the extent that there were losses, you share in them just as much as I do, probably more as I'm doing pretty well thanks very much.
You are apparently unaware of the part the USSR played in WWII and how they defeated Germany, not quite single-handedly but did the bulk of the damage. <If America had not won it's independence on July 4, 1776 what nation would have rescued England as Hitler's blitzkrieg was pounding it into submission? >
If the USA had remained part of the British system as did Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and others, the USA might not have hidden behind the Atlantic for so long after hostilities got going. But, it's all water under the bridge and is idle conjecture.
Have a look at this, the western front was minor skirmishing by comparison: <The Eastern Front was unparalleled for its high intensity, ferocity, and brutality. The fighting involved millions of Axis and Soviet troops along the broadest land front in military history. It was by far the deadliest single theatre of war in World War II, with over 5 million deaths on the Axis Forces; Soviet military deaths were about 10.6 million (out of which 3.6 million Soviets died in German captivity[20]), and civilian deaths were about 14 to 17 million. Soviet and Russian historiography often uses the so-called irretrievable casualties term. According to the Narkomat of Defence order (? 023, February 4, 1944), the irretrievable casualties include killed, missed, those who died due to war-time or subsequent wounds, maladies and chilblains and those who were captured.
The genocidal death toll was attributed to several factors, including brutal mistreatment of POWs and captured partisans by both sides, multiple atrocities by the Germans and the Soviets against the civilian population and each other, the wholesale use of weaponry on the battlefield against huge masses of infantry. The multiple battles, and most of all, the use of scorched earth tactics destroyed agricultural land, infrastructure, and whole towns, leaving much of the population homeless and without food.
Military losses on the Eastern Front during World War II1 Forces fighting with the Axis
Total Dead KIA/MIA POWs taken by the Soviets POWs that died in Captivity
Greater Germany 4,300,000 4,000,000 3,300,000 374,000
Soviet residents who joined German army 215,000+ 215,000 1,000,000 Unknown
Romania 281,000 81,000 500,000 200,000
Hungary 300,000 100,000 500,000 200,000
Italy 82,000 32,000 70,000 50,000
Total 5,178,000+ 4,428,000 5,450,000 824,000 > en.wikipedia.org
Have a look at this too, to get the non-Hollywood movie picture of what actually happened: answers.yahoo.com
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