BF2S Forums I know why the Nazi Germany lost WW2.

I think the German uniforms looked dressier, as though they were going to win the war in style, but the American/British ones looked sooo much more bad ass I reckon.

The Russian ones just sucked

It was teh j00s fault tbh

jk

Last edited by nickb64 (2009-07-22 21:52:09)

AussieReaper wrote:

The Russians kicked ass at Stalingrad.

More like sustained getting their asses kick long enough that the Germans eventually froze.

Macbeth wrote:

AussieReaper wrote:

The Russians kicked ass at Stalingrad.

More like sustained getting their asses kick long enough that the Germans eventually froze.

Well, that and the fact the Russians surrounded the 6th army.

It was a long-planned pincer movement that went along 50-mile fronts to the north and the south of Stalingrad, two large Russian armies broke through the mostly Rumanian defenders and then closed the "Kessel" and doomed Paulus' army.

It wasn't just a sit and play the attrition game.

Chorcai wrote:

aerodynamic wrote:

So I wanted to do a WW2 Marathon this week since I heart my knee playing tennis and so I have like 10 WW2 films: Saints and Soldiers, The Down Fall, The Pianist, Band of the Brothers etc. And something that really fucking bothered me were the German Uniforms.
You have guys with fuckign crosses everywhere on their uniform and including one up his own ass, then silver stripes etc, Who The Fuck designed them. Seriously, i didn't know if i was looking at a general or a private. One old guy came on teh screen and i thought shit this guy is a general and some young guy comes and it turns out he is a captain of somesort. For fuck sake, the famous Hitler scene in the Downfall there are like 20 german generals or whatever and everyone of them shit i can't be bothered to finish typing.

Most of the German gererals were very good and out classed the US & UK generals, but as you know, Hitler threw a pissy fit if things didnt go he's way. = they lose.

Well you clearly no nothing.

The reason the Allied generals were so much better than their German counterparts comes down to the military structuring of both sides well before forces even met on the field.

Hitler so was paranoid of giving one General control over too large a section of the army/navy/airforce that the division of forces handed to the German generals left nothing but a confused hierarchy with no streamlined and coordinated planning available with communication to other branches, and even when a German commander wanted to coordinate an attack with another, it had to go through Hitler first.

The Allied command structure was very clear cut with the three main branches of Navy, Airforce, Army and were very well coordinated between Churchill and Roosevelt. So much so that they operated under Combined Chiefs of Staff which was a joint military command over all British-American operations.

Is it just me or have we been talking about Nazis on this forum a lot lately?

War Man wrote:

The Russians cared more for reliability and usefulness than style.

I don't doubt that, but the US uniforms were the same, and they didn't look like they were made out of old hats.

Ioan92 wrote:

DonFck wrote:

Ultrafunkula wrote:

Russian won thanks to their massive numbers.

This graph really shows how much the red army is full of fail:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e … lties2.svg

duh, they just threw soldiers into enemy fire like they were toys.


AHHHHHHHHHH FOR MOTHER LAND!!!!!

Ioan92 wrote:

aerodynamic wrote:

Ioan92 wrote:

Russian won thanks to their massive numbers.

This graph really shows how much the red army is full of fail:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e … lties2.svg

duh, they just threw soldiers into enemy fire like they were toys.


AHHHHHHHHHH FOR MOTHER LAND!!!!!

COWARDS WILL BE SHOT, NO RETREATING!

I use 'Enemy at the Gates' as my reference in this matter.

.Sup wrote:

eskimo_sammyjoe wrote:

Ioan92 wrote:

COWARDS WILL BE SHOT, NO RETREATING!

I use 'Enemy at the Gates' as my reference in this matter.

haha was just browsing Google images for pics

Too slow sorry .Sup :p

aerodynamic wrote:

So I wanted to do a WW2 Marathon this week since I heart my knee playing tennis and so I have like 10 WW2 films: Saints and Soldiers, The Down Fall, The Pianist, Band of the Brothers etc. And something that really fucking bothered me were the German Uniforms.
You have guys with fuckign crosses everywhere on their uniform and including one up his own ass, then silver stripes etc, Who The Fuck designed them. Seriously, i didn't know if i was looking at a general or a private. One old guy came on teh screen and i thought shit this guy is a general and some young guy comes and it turns out he is a captain of somesort. For fuck sake, the famous Hitler scene in the Downfall there are like 20 german generals or whatever and everyone of them shit i can't be bothered to finish typing.

it was the early 1900's..

War Man wrote:

Bradt3hleader wrote:

@ First post

If Germany didn't attack the USSR then they could have put their best soldiers and equipment on the Western Front. Hitler had 3 million men in Russia. I can't even imagine the carnage for the Allies on the Western Front had Hitler not launcher Operation Barbarossa.

Imagine 4 million German troops strung out across the whole western coast of Europe! Not to mention the tanks, artillery, and aircraft. I think the German Air Force could have done horrendous damage to the Allied bombers, which were already losing men at an alarming rate.

If Japan didn't attack America then the European allies would have been fucked since the US wouldn't have been there.

Well we might've eventually entered the war, a little too late though.

DonFck wrote:

Ultrafunkula wrote:

What is so funny? Would you rather freeze in a war and look good in your uniform or be pretty warm and look ugly in a uniform?

Someone needs a fucking history lesson.

Superior Mind wrote:

Ioan92 wrote:

War Man wrote:

Bradt3hleader wrote:

@ First post

If Germany didn't attack the USSR then they could have put their best soldiers and equipment on the Western Front. Hitler had 3 million men in Russia. I can't even imagine the carnage for the Allies on the Western Front had Hitler not launcher Operation Barbarossa.

Imagine 4 million German troops strung out across the whole western coast of Europe! Not to mention the tanks, artillery, and aircraft. I think the German Air Force could have done horrendous damage to the Allied bombers, which were already losing men at an alarming rate.

If Japan didn't attack America then the European allies would have been fucked since the US wouldn't have been there.

Well we might've eventually entered the war, a little too late though.

What is so funny? Would you rather freeze in a war and look good in your uniform or be pretty warm and look ugly in a uniform?

Someone needs a fucking history lesson.

Yeah, from what I remember the Germans had superior winter weather gear.

That may be so, but in Stalingrad, they didn't have any fucking weather gear because the Germans thought the battle would be over in a week or 2. That is where I'm getting at.