Btw TIK is gonna make videos on the Courland pocket soon

When he finishes

The crusader series

Starting Early 2019 was it

Could recheck but fug dat

Epic

The Courland is Latvia right

Where they were just chillin

Perkele

till the end of the war

Yes

Btw the Livonians lived there too

F for them

F

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Tbh i didnt know the Germans hold onto the Netherlands until the end of the war

Wait right that georgian goy unitn

F for them

The Germans were pretty brutal in the Netherlands right

Starvation and shizz

Germany rn > Nazi Germany

Kaiserreich > Germany rn > Nazi Germany

@Alluvallaton The Wehrmacht’s entire strategy was based on fast, combined arms rushes to capitals. It’s how they overran Europe. When the fighting bogged down in Russia as a result of several issues, mostly fuel shortages, weather, and miscommunication, they started getting fucked. The Germans started to lose men faster than they could replace them whereas the Soviets could keep pumping out shitloads of soldiers for their war effort due to their simply massive population.

stalingrad is a good example of this

although the preceding events are simply stupid, stalingrad as a whole represented the turn of the tide against Germany.

It started with a sweep into the city preceded by a massive bombing campaign, but eventually the fighting in the streets and the houses grew excruciatingly intense

Entire soviet regiments were wiped out in defense of Stalingrad

Eventually the intense Soviet defense held and they began to push back the Germans, and pushed them into the small area where they remained under siege.

Had the weather on the harsh steppe landscape not been so, well, *harsh*, the Germans may have been able to escape or at least hold out a bit longer. However, that didn’t come to be.

Gonna check this

When i get on the computer

Brb

I’m not joking

iirc an entire Guards regiment was wiped out fighting in the city square @Alluvallaton

40-something I think

It also goes to show the determination the Soviets had to hold ground and grind out German examples

Another example of them realizing that they are in a war of attrittion

I meant as in read this @Flat

They understood that they could lose quite a few more men than the Germans so they were willing to draw out their casualties

Oh yeah. They were willing to die, en masse, for their land.