So, they lost by being outnumbered as before the Teutonic Order that came to christianize the Slavs...
A tanker crew holds against a horde of Russians; Takes down an entire platoon of tanks before retreating just in time having perfectly timed their actions even under Russian airplane attack, after some years on Speed every single day.
I am sure who ever survived remembers all that exactly like that.
Holding a bridge head with one tank is suicide. There is no way that three tanks miss every single shot and do not take off a chain or cause sever damage. The Tiger front window is not too small to take a sniper shot, the attack would have been first by planes, than by tank fire from much further distance and only last by Infantry men.
There is no way that scenario there is any close to reality. The German tactic was called Verbrannte Erde. They latterly burned down every house, church, village and real estate they could find. They did no hold to retreat, the tank crew would have had orders to destroy the bridge or would have died holding.
Abstract the facts, even the official ones:
The German retreat following the Battle of Stalingrad—marking the end of their offensive capabilities on the Eastern Front—triggered a continuous, grueling retreat that lasted roughly 2 years and 3 months.
The timeline of this massive, multi-front withdrawal breaks down into the following key phases:
February 1943: The official surrender of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. With this defeat, German forces were forced into a chaotic, desperate retreat hundreds of miles back across the Don and Donets rivers to escape total encirclement.
1943–1944: Following the failed German offensive at the Battle of Kursk in July 1943, the Red Army launched relentless, sweeping counteroffensives. This forced the Wehrmacht into a prolonged, phased fighting retreat that liberated most of Ukraine and all of western Russia.
June 1944: Operation Bagration, the massive Soviet offensive in Belarus, entirely shattered the German Army Group Centre, accelerating the retreat from the East.
May 1945: The retreat finally culminated in the complete collapse of Nazi Germany and the surrender of Berlin, bringing an end to the war in Europe
Soviet military losses shifted dramatically between the initial German Offensive Phase (June 1941 to February 1943) and the subsequent German Retreat Phase (February 1943 to May 1945). [1, 2]
While the Soviets lost millions of men in both phases, the nature of those losses transformed from massive numbers of captured soldiers to heavy battle casualties sustained while driving the Germans back. [3]
According to comprehensive military demographic data compiled by Russian historian Grigori Krivosheev, the numbers break down as follows:
## 1. The Offensive Phase (June 22, 1941 – February 2, 1943)
During this period—encompassing Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Moscow, and the Battle of Stalingrad—the Red Army suffered catastrophic losses due to swift German encirclements. [1, 4, 5]
* Irrecoverable Losses (Killed, Missing, or Captured): Roughly 4.4 million soldiers.
* Captured: Over 3 million of these losses were prisoners of war taken in the opening months of the invasion. Tragically, due to deliberate starvation and Nazi extermination policies, the Holocaust Encyclopedia notes that around 60% of these POWs did not survive the war.
* Stalingrad Alone: During the [Britannica Stalingrad Campaign](https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad) (July 1942–Feb 1943), the Soviets suffered 1,129,619 total casualties, including 478,741 killed or missing. [3, 6, 7, 8, 9]
## 2. The Retreat Phase (February 3, 1943 – May 9, 1945)
After the victory at Stalingrad, the Red Army stayed permanently on the offensive. While the Soviets were now winning, attacking dug-in German forces over thousands of miles resulted in incredibly high combat casualties. [1, 4, 10]
* Irrecoverable Losses (Killed, Missing, or Captured): Roughly 6.8 million soldiers.
* The Shift in Casualties: Unlike the first phase, very few Soviet soldiers were captured during this period. Instead, these millions represent soldiers killed in action (KIA) or dead from wounds (DOW) during massive operations like Kursk, Operation Bagration, and the final assault on Berlin. [6, 11, 12]
## Comparative Overview of Soviet Military Losses
(Note: These figures strictly represent Red Army military personnel. They do not include the estimated 17 million Soviet civilian deaths, most of whom perished under Nazi occupation during the first phase of the war.) [1]
If you want to look closer at these numbers, would you like to compare how German losses changed between these two phases, or look at the casualties of a specific battle like Kursk or Berlin? [11, 12]
[1] [https://www.awm.gov.au](https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/nazi-soviet-war)
[2] [https://www.nationalww2museum.org](https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-barbarossa)
[3] [https://www.facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/100076430438564/posts/its-hard-to-fully-comprehend-the-staggering-scale-of-loss-and-devastation-on-the/856349246922749/)
[4] [https://www.britannica.com](https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad)
[5] [https://www.britannica.com](https://www.britannica.com/event/Eastern-Front-World-War-II)
[6] [https://ww2db.com](https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=3)
[7] [https://www.quora.com](https://www.quora.com/Why-were-there-so-many-Soviet-casualties-during-the-Battle-of-Stalingrad)
[8] [https://forum.axishistory.com](https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=87012&start=15)
[9] [https://www.quora.com](https://www.quora.com/How-many-Soviet-soldiers-were-killed-for-every-1-German-soldier-on-the-Eastern-Front-in-WW2)
[10] [https://www.worldhistory.org](https://www.worldhistory.org/German-Soviet_War/)
[11] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin)
[12] [https://www.quora.com](https://www.quora.com/The-Battle-of-Berlin-Soviet-troop-losses-have-estimates-from-100-000-to-500-000-What-is-the-correct-number)
The term "Verbrannte Erde" (Scorched Earth) orders refers to a series of brutal military decrees issued by the Nazi leadership during World War II, ordering retreating German forces to completely destroy all infrastructure, resources, and shelter to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. [1, 2]
There were two major manifestations of this policy during the German retreat: [3]
## 1. The Soviet Union Phase: Operation Verbrannte Erde (September 1943) [2]
As the Wehrmacht was driven backward following their defeat at Kursk, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring issued the official Verbrannte Erde decree on September 7, 1943. [2, 4]
* The Mandate: It ordered retreating German troops to create a total wasteland behind them. Soldiers were instructed to destroy all usable materials, agricultural crops, buildings, machinery, and livestock to a depth of 30 to 40 kilometers (18 to 25 miles) ahead of the advancing Red Army.
* The Brutal Execution: Special mechanical tools, like the [Schienenwolf (railroad plow)](https://www.buchenwald.de/en/geschichte/online-ausstellungen/specialcamp2/besatzungspolitik), were used to systematically tear up thousands of miles of railway tracks. Entire villages were burned down. This forced millions of Soviet civilians to face starvation and exposure, leading the post-war [Nuremberg Trials](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbrannte_Erde) to officially classify these indiscriminate tactics as war crimes. [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
## 2. The Domestic Phase: The Nero Decree (March 1945)
As Allied forces breached Germany's borders from both the East and the West, Adolf Hitler turned this apocalyptic policy onto his own country. On March 19, 1945, he issued the Befehl betreffend Zerstörungsmaßnahmen im Reichsgebiet (Decree Concerning Demolitions in the Reich Territory), famously known as the Nero Decree. [9, 10, 11]
* The Mandate: Hitler ordered the total destruction of Germany's own industrial plants, electrical grids, water treatment facilities, communication networks, and transport links.
* The Grim Motive: Hitler adopted a radical Social Darwinist view. He told his Armaments Minister, Albert Speer, that the survival of the German population was irrelevant because the "best" Germans had already died in battle, and those remaining were weak and did not deserve a future.
* The Sabotage: Terrified that this would permanently cripple post-war Germany, [Albert Speer](https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sealing-third-reichs-downfall-adolf-hitlers-nero-decree) collaborated with various military commanders and local officials to secretly pass counter-orders, successfully sabotaging or ignoring most of Hitler's destruction plans. [1, 11, 12, 13, 14]
Would you like to know more about how Albert Speer managed to secretly undermine the Nero Decree, or see pictures and details of the mechanical Schienenwolf used during the retreats? [7, 13]
[1] [https://germanhistorydocs.org](https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/hitlers-scorched-earth-decree-nero-decree-march-19-1945-and-albert-speers-response-march-29-1945)
[2] [https://codenames.info](https://codenames.info/operation/verbrannte-erde-i/)
[3] [https://www.bundesarchiv.de](https://www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entdecken/online-entdecken/themenbeitraege/der-nero-befehl/)
[4] [https://codenames.info](https://codenames.info/operation/verbrannte-erde-i/)
[5] [https://de.wikipedia.org](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbrannte_Erde)
[6] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth)
[7] [https://www.buchenwald.de](https://www.buchenwald.de/en/geschichte/online-ausstellungen/specialcamp2/besatzungspolitik)
[8] [https://www.facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1870439410119194/posts/2331237890706008/)
[9] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Decree)
[10] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Decree)
[11] [https://www.deutschlandmuseum.de](https://www.deutschlandmuseum.de/en/history/calendar/1945-03-19-hitlers-nero-order/)
[12] [https://germanhistorydocs.org](https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/hitlers-scorched-earth-decree-nero-decree-march-19-1945-and-albert-speers-response-march-29-1945)
[13] [https://www.nationalww2museum.org](https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sealing-third-reichs-downfall-adolf-hitlers-nero-decree)
[14] [https://www.deutschlandmuseum.de](https://www.deutschlandmuseum.de/en/history/calendar/1945-03-19-hitlers-nero-order/)
Can you imagine that in reality a force on a constant drug supply basically did not fight regular soldiers or any force comparable to U.S. Rangers attacking Iraq, but murdered its way through a Europe in which since the French Revolution and factual end of Feudalism every citizen had a rifle and Dedicated Regional Dress, but no full automatic weapons or tanks, because only one economy focused in weapons productions and acquisition?
Based on Geneva Conventions until today a civilian defending his home with a weapon actively, being a right fought for by the establishment of Republics, is without a uniform a combatant with no POW rights and not a Defendant of his Freedom and Property. If wearing at least a kind of Uniform a Soldier.
So, wear your Sunday Suite and you might get Soup, otherwise just shot dead like having dropped that hopefully bloody thing.
Pirates, Partisans, Armed Men, Resistance, Fighters, Saboteurs, Terrorists.
Do you understand what really happened by Nations coming over us? Feudalism came back as Nationalists overthrowing European badly structured Republics incapable of organizing being outgunned by drugged hordes willing to murder without hesitation that had printed books and produced plows, fertilizer and cleaning materials instead of drugs, ammo and explosives.
NO NATIONS. NO PRIVILEGES
IRA MOVEMENT
never surrender so you don't miss your time die
Make an educated guess:
The Hat, right?
