[Unknown_Enemy]

Originally posted by Taz-in-Space:
I for one would like to see more foreign films in US cinemas. I'm sure that there are many fine films that are missed by both sides.

As to the conduct of the WWII militaries and if they could have done better, sure they could have. BUT THAT IS HINDSIGHT!

What was done by ALL sides during that awful mess was incredible.

Here in the US, few know what the Russian people had to endure. The statistics I saw were amazing to me many years ago when I studied it.

I remember reading that the losses of men on the 'Eastern Front' were:
20 Million Russians and 2.5 Million Germans.
An amazing 8-1 ratio! This is over the whole war.
Think of what the ratio had to be at the start.
And the Germans LOST...

How did the Russians do it? Yes, they had help; but largely they DID fight with their own equipment. One place I wouldn't have liked to be was in the Russian infantry during 1941-1943.

IMO not enough note was made about the Eastern Front land war in the West. Just as I'm sure not much notice is shown in USSR about the Bombing campaign waged in the West.

You tend to ignore what you haven't experianced.
Simple human nature...

There is a problem with your numbers.
You put in it only the germans casualties, but dont get in all other nationalities (european volonteers, russians, italians) who came in URSS to fight versus communism.

From what I remember of "History of WW2" from Liddle Hart there was around 6 millions dead soldiers on the axis side. Remember until the very Last days of WW2, there was 1 million "russian" soldiers fighting on the side of germany.