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View Poll Results :Most decisive battle in WW2? | |||
Battle of Stalingrad |
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34 | 33.33% |
Battle of Kursk (Operation Citadel) |
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15 | 14.71% |
Battle of Moscow |
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10 | 9.80% |
Battle of Leningrad |
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0 | 0% |
Battle of El Alamein |
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3 | 2.94% |
Operation Overlord (Battle of Normandy) |
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17 | 16.67% |
Battle of Midway |
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11 | 10.78% |
Other |
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12 | 11.76% |
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Moscow was the biggest blunder followed closely by Stalingrad. Kursk third! Stalingrad was the bloodiest and most costly but is it the most desisive? I guess the result was the most clear cut as the 6th Army was destroyed but was the loss greater in importance than the loss at Moscow? Its a good discussion on its own. |
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Also I was a Re-Enactor with the 11th Panzer Granaders and learned to use German Heer field gear it really puts things into perspective. For example with all that metal field gear how did the Germans move so quietly at night? I used to clank! |
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ww2 was decided on the Ostfront. |
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Topic: World War 2's most Decisive Battle
Once Hitler attacked Russia the die was cast. The moment operation Barbarossa commenced Germany lost the war. In this respect I suppose I would pick as the most decisive battle on the Ostfront, Stalingrad. But the most decisive battle was the battle which took Hitler's mind away from the west towards the red giant known as the Soviet Union. The most decisive battle of WW 2 was The Battle of Britain. By Sept. 1940 the R.A.F. was on the ropes. A few more weeks of this pummeling of the airfields and sector stations would have brought the R.A.F. to it's knees. Then an event happened which changed the war forever. Some German Bombers lost their way and dropped their payload on central London. The British retaliated and bombed Berlin. Hitler's next move was motivated by rage, not common sense. He immediatly ordered the terror bombing of British cities, especially London. But,he was always pre-occupied with the Soviet Union and with a twisted logic decided to attack it. He stated that an attack and victory of the Soviet Union would bring England to it's senses. For Britain will have lost it's last ally. What Hitler didn't know or wouldn't admit was Britain had put it's salvation in the hands of the United States. Churchill was getting huge amounts of aid from America and was determined to drag the American nation into the war, kicking and screaming if need be. As we all know Japan did the trick for him. But this does show the fantasy world the German leader lived in. His under-estimation of the tenacity of the Russian soldier and his complete surprise when his troops and armour ran into the T34 and the KV series of heavy tanks shows his intelligence agencies were not doing their work properly. But I do digress. The Battle of Britain won by the R.A.F. and a tenacious British public started Hitler on his great series of mistakes, which makes it the most decisive battle in WW 2.
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I agree with your logic but disagree with your conclusion.
The short answer is that even Hitler knew the German army could not cross the channel successfully for at least a year he had been told by both the Luftwaffe and the Kreigsmarine that they could not prevent the Royal Navy from intervention and he accepted this by all accounts therefore even had the Luftwaffe gained control over southern England it is unlikely Operation Sealion would have gone ahead because of the presence of a very dominant Royal Navy. It is because of this I do not believe that the Battle of Britain is a contender for this title. |
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