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In August 1942 the US Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up a document that said: This was quite clear to anyone with the slightest knowledge of the conduct of the war, including the Allied commanders and the governments they represented. The Normandy landings of 1944 were an impressive and costly military operation, but they cannot be compared to the scale of the Red Army’s offensive in the east. Right up till the last moment, Britain and America, remained mere onlookers in the European conflict. This highlights an important fact that to this very day western historians are reluctant to admit: the Second World War in Europe was in reality a gigantic conflict between Hitler’s Germany, with all the resources of Europe behind it, and the Soviet Union. After the Battle of Stalingrad, German forces never recovered their strength and fighting morale, while the triumphant Red Army began the greatest military advance in history. The staggering losses inflicted on the German army decisively affected the outcome of the whole war. The combined German and Soviet casualties amounted to nearly two million. All this time the Germans and their allies were locked in a savage hand-to-hand struggle fought in ruined streets and shattered buildings that were reduced to rubble. The battle began on 23 August 1942 and only ended on 2 February 1943. By comparison the British victory in the Battle of El Alamein was a puny affair. The Battle of Stalingrad was where that the might of the Wehrmacht was finally halted after a bloody slogging match for control of the city of Stalingrad (now called Volgograd) in the south west of the Soviet Union.
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