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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
..and before your Canadian arrogance runs away with itself. 45,000 Canadian died in WW2 as your numbers say 730k Canadians served. Well, I got news for you, 1 million Soviet soldiers died in "the" battle of Stalingrad wiping out the German Sixth Army, the most feared army in the world at the time.
In short, if the Russians didn't take out the 6th army, your German would be excellent by now.
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Actually, the Soviets reported closer to 479,000 Russian soldiers died at Volgagrad. That included 13,500 Russian troops that were executed during the course of the battle by the Soviets "Special Detatchments", also known as SMERSH.
Since the Battle of Staingrad did not begin until August 1942, well after the U.S.A. joined the war, the threat of Germany invading England was well past. Not that their was much economic or strategic gain in doing so.
The only reason Hitler took a shot at Russia was because Stalin had executed over 60% of his Officer Corp before the war. When Russia could not even successfully invade Finland, Hitler smelled an opportunity to eliminate Stalin and seize the Caucasus Oil fields