WHEN THE GERMAN ADVANCE STOPPED THE SOVIET UNION STARTED PUSHING BACK THE GERMAN FORCES. THERE WERE MANY MORE SOVIET CAUSALTIES THEN GERMANS BUT THERE ALSO MUCH MORE SOVIET TROOPS DUE TO ITS VAST SIZE. THIS WAS THE BEGGINNING OF THE END FOR GERMANY ALTHOUGH AT THE TIME NOBODY KNEW IT. AFTER THIS HITLER TOOK COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE MILITARY WHICH WAS BAD BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY HE WASNT A MILITARY EXPERT AND THE GENERALS WERE. HE SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH YOUNG INEXPERIENCED OFFICERS WHICH WERE EASILY MANIPULATED. THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD WAS THE LARGEST SIEGE IN WORLD HISTORY. THEY CUT OFF SUPPLY LINES AND BOMBED THEN AND TRIED TO STARVE THEM OUT. MANY PEOPLE DIED OF STARVATION. MANY PEOPLE RESORTED TO CANNIBALISM TO SURVIVE. PEOPLE FORMED GANGS AND ATTACKED DEFENSELESS PEOPLE AND ATE THEM. THE LENINGRAD POLICE FORMED A SPECIAL FORCE TO COMBAT THE CANNIBALISTIC GANGS ROAMING THE STREETS. FINALLY A SUCCESSFUL COUNTER OFFENSIVE AT STALINGRAD DRAINED NECESSARY RESOURCES THE GERMANS NEEDED TO CONTINUE THE BLOCKADE AND EVENTUALLY IT FAILED. THE GERMANS NEVER COMPLETELY CONTROLLED AN ENTIRE CITY. ERWIN ROMMEL THE DESERT FOX WAS A GERMAN GENERAL HE WAS AN EXCELLENT GENERAL HE LEAD THE AFRICAN CORE WHICH WAS THE NAME OF THE GERMAN TROOPS IN AFRICA DURING WW2. HE WAS THE BEST GERMAN GENERAL OF THE WAR. THE BRITISH AND FRENCH STRUGGLED TO DEFEAT HIM BUT WHEN WE CAME WE WON FAIRLY EASILY. GEORGE PATTON WAS TOUGH ON HIS TROOPS HE THOUGHT HE WAS VERY GOOD. EGOTISTICAL IF YOU WILL. HE WAS THE GENERAL WHO DEFEATED THE DESERT FOX. OPERATION TORCH WAS THE INVASION OF MOROCCO IN AFRICA. WE FOUGHT THE ITALIANS VICHY GOVERNMENT AND GERMANY OF COURSE. AFRICA WAS PRETTY MUCH TAKEN OVER IN 6-8 MONTHS. STALIN WASNT VERY HAPPY THAT WE WERENT HELPING HIM OUT MUCH. THE SOVIET UNION WAS THE COUNTRY WHO EVENTUALLY TOOK BERLIN. ITALY WAS THOUGHT OF AS THE SOFT UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE. SO THATS WHAT AMERICA DID.
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