Reading post 601484 in main thread: Why did Germany lose WW2?
May 31st, 2011  
mmarsh
 
 
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Originally Posted by lljadw
He had NOT poured 80 % of his resources on the Eastern Front in june 1944 :most of the Luftwaffe was NOT in the East .
The strength of theWehrmacht was some 8 million;the Field Army :4 million,of which 2.6 million in the East
By June 6 1944 there wasn't much of a Luftwaffe to talk about east or west. Do you know how many aircraft were available to counter the Normandy landings? 2. The few squadrons remaining were tasking with defending the Reich.

80% was slightly high, its was about about 60% with another roughly 10% in Northern Europe. The point still remains, even if they had shifted all 88 Divisions stationed in the western front and Scandinavia the result would have been the same.


"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat situation excellent. I shall attack." -Foch

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