World War 2 ends (if you exclude the pacific theater, even though it was the Japanese who were the reason we entered the war in the first place) with the Russian capture of Berlin. Just to take the city alone, the Russians took 436,000 casualties, and over a million wounded. Over the course of the entire war, the estimated loss for both military and civilian go at 29 million. Many historians who look back on Adolph Hitler's vision of world domination say that it would have been possible had he not have invaded Russia. But was a conquest of the USSR possible?
First, why did the Germans lose? That's depends on which angel you look at it. From the start, Germany did not have the natural resources or the industrial capacity to sustain a protracted war against the Russians. The mistakes they made from the very start slowed them from reaching Moscow before the winter. (Lack of knowledge of good roads, thinly stretched supply lines, and a relaxed time table). Also, the key battles of......

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Title: Eatern Front: Mission Impossible?
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