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>>2744159
They were all incredibly stupid.

>>2744159
Japan backed off of Russia in the East, which allowed a transfer of a fuckton of fresh Soviet divisions West. The Wehrmacht a) didn't have the reserves to match and b) had stretched its supply lines to the point that disruptions were inevitable.

>>2744159
Nothing. Autistic Germans deserved to get beat at some point or other. They're lucky it took so long.

Blitzkrieg can't into logistics.

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they relied on gypsies

>>2744159
The German tactical system worked because of a high degree, by far the best in the world at the time, of communication between combat arms. They didn't necessarily have the best artillery or the best tanks or the best planes, but they were the best at figuring out where to deliver artillery/air/armor/etc. support quickly and actually delivering it by officers on the scene who weren't constantly routing information up and down to headquarters.

That system though, depended on relatively arms length fighting. You need to be able to tell the difference between your position and the enemy's position to have your artillery strike to do more good than harm. If they're all mixed like ants in a bowl, it's not so great. It wasn't just stalingrad, the Germans tended to do worse in urban combat than they did in open combat in general, as difficult (although ultimately successful) assaults in places like Sevastopol, Vitebsk, Odessa, etc. showed. Generally, the Germans only did so after completely surrounding the city, pulverizing it with artillery for a few days to a week or so, and then flooding it with infantry. But key in doing that was surrounding the city in the first place.

They never got a chance to do so in Stalingrad, and the Soviets held the other bank of the Volga and would do so all throughout the campaign. Then, it simply became an infantry attrition-fest, which they were poorly set up to do.

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