609 – Supply (1)
The Battle of Stalingrad ended with 2 million casualties in half a year.
The Soviet Union, which was conducting an extreme war of attrition, executed Operation Uranus as if it had judged that it was difficult to endure any longer.
If both wings of Nazi Germany had endured, it would have been a victory for Nazi Germany, but it was difficult to stop the large army of 900,000.
This is not only the amount of money, but the Soviet Union’s deception also worked, and it was caught off guard after mistaking it for defense rather than offensive.
Nazi Germany was not stupid either, so it was well aware of its weaknesses, but if it had been more careful, history might have been different.
However, as the saying goes, there are no ifs in history, Nazi Germany was hit by Operation Uranus and hundreds of thousands of troops were surrounded.
To make matters worse, due to the arrival of General Dong, gasoline freezes and suffers from chronic supply problems. The situation became increasingly serious and eventually led to defeat.
In this way, after 2 million attrition, the Battle of Stalingrad ended with the victory of the Soviet Union. It was a reversal that turned the tide of battle.
[Operation Uranus was a great success, but Operation Winter Storm in Nazi Germany was only half successful.]
[If Operation Winter Storm had failed, the Southern Front would have been completely annihilated.]
[A defeat highlighting Hitler’s incompetence and stubbornness.]
Operation Winter Storm was able to maintain the front line, but it was no different from putting out an urgent fire.
It’s enough to make a tank or an airplane in a factory, but people can’t do that. Nazi Germany, in particular, suffers from chronic population shortages.
The lack of population was covered by the emergence of competent commanders who were recorded in history one after another, and the establishment of doctrines appropriate to the times.
However, a single Battle of Stalingrad literally wiped out 800,000 troops. For Nazi Germany, it was bound to be a painful loss.
[I can’t die for Corporal Bohemian. The military of Nazi Germany deepening distrust of Hitler.]
[Even ordinary people cannot gain strength if they do not eat. There is nothing to say about soldiers going into battle.]
[Is Hitler Really the Leader’s Vessel? Or is it just an accidental product of the rush of the times?]
General Friedrich Paulus in the Battle of Stalingrad. He readily chewed on Hitler’s order to kill himself and surrendered.
This is because they suffered from chronic supply problems due to the failure of Operation Winter Storm, and furthermore, the unit was virtually abandoned in Nazi Germany.
In addition, even the soldiers’ morale crawled to the floor. The weather is f*cking cold, I’m hungry, and the Soviets are coming like crazy.
In the end, the 6th Army, the most combat-experienced on the Eastern Front, was literally deleted.
It would be a defeat that Nazi Germany, who suffered a reversal, would want to hide somehow, but the scale was so large that it could not be hidden.
It was a battle that was back and forth from the start. Even if we think we’ll win, that side comes in, and even if that side thinks we’ll win, we win.
In this way, even Nazi Germany could not hide its defeat. However, Nazi Germany, which was cautious, rather uses this.
[Do you want an all-out war? If necessary, do we want a more radical and all-out war than anything we can imagine today?]
[Are you ready to carry out the most difficult task, sharing the pain, supporting the defense forces behind the frontlines as the shield of the motherland together with His Excellency the President?]
[I will ask you guys! Are you prepared to believe in and follow the President and overcome any hardships and difficulties in order to achieve victory?]
This is where Goebbels’ famous ‘Total War Speech’ appeared. With this single speech, Nazi Germany activates a more reliable war economy.
A system befitting the word total war, in which the whole nation fights for only one ‘war’.
It was the result of a combination of the people’s fanatical belief in Nazi Germany and Goebbels’ brilliant agitation.
[Did you ever think it was cool? I thought I was cool too. If I had been a citizen of Nazi Germany, I would have volunteered.]
[The people of Nazi Germany do not know that they are aiding the criminal regime. It has already lost its midnight ability since the French occupation.]
[Even if I can’t forgive it, I have to admit that it’s a wonderful group. There is a reason the people follow it.]
Readers were also impressed by the total war speech. It’s natural to admire it honestly.
Gukppong and pride, which are the best drugs for the people of their country. By injecting these two, it led to voluntary participation.
If this speech was the starting point, there would be nothing better. In fact, he won a great victory in the 3rd Battle of Kharkov.
But Nazi Germany is Nazi Germany to the end. Its chronic supply problems will eventually lead to the occupation of Berlin.
[Before the Battle of Stalingrad was over, the United States had finished the Battle of Guadalcanal.]
[The meeting was held in Casablanca, Morocco. However, Stalin was unable to attend due to the Battle of Stalingrad.]
[What the Allies want is unconditional surrender. It is to prevent war from breaking out again by making sure surrender.]
If the Soviets were fighting a war of attrition in Stalingrad, the U.S. forces were fighting across Guadalcanal.
At the time, the United States was unaware of the importance of the Pacific front, and even the Marshal put it off, giving priority to Europe.
This was a natural action. Japan didn’t have oil, so it was impossible to cross the Pacific, but Nazi Germany wasn’t.
The United States had no choice but to focus its efforts on the European front rather than the Pacific.
Of course, after that meeting, a huge amount of supply poured in, but it was still insufficient.
[If Stalingrad is at the height of a war of attrition, the Battle of Guadalcanal clearly showed how war drives humans into madness.]
Unlike the European front, the Pacific War was a war between different races.
However, the problem is that the race was Japanese. Armed with militarism, Japan really deserved to be called a ‘savage’.
A banzai charge is also a banzai charge, but the real fear of the Japanese army lies in its savagery. You can get a glimpse of the courage of a knight likely to be seen in the Middle Ages.
[The Japanese soldiers are savage, but I like their courage.]
Thanks to that courage, I also got a good impression. The unfavorable combo stacks exploded one after another, so all of the good feelings disappeared.
Treatment and massacre of prisoners, violations of the Geneva Conventions, booby traps, self-destruct attacks while captured, and so on. It was a beast in human clothing.
This isn’t because I’m Korean, but these are records from real history. All of them repaid the favor with their enemies.
Because of this, even the friendly US soldiers gnashed their teeth, saying that all Japanese soldiers should be killed.
[The Japanese army is still cheap. The US treated them well as prisoners, but what they threw was sh*t.]
[Even Nazi Germany treated prisoners appropriately if they considered them ‘equal’. However, the Japanese army does not have such a thing.]
Even in this modern world, there is a culture that prisoners should be treated.
Basically, there was an influence that the concept of ‘human rights’ was embedded early, and the value of labor and prisoner exchange was sufficient.
However, Japan treated POWs fairly in various ways. Like a toy or game.
You might think that it could be because of the different cultures. Actually, I can’t communicate, but I must have been scared of what that guy would do to me.
However, Japan also had a history of going through a severe civil war, and it is more strange that there is no treatment for prisoners of war.
His ideology and brainwashing were the primary problem, and the harsh environment of war was the secondary result.
[Blood and Steel showed the future war, but at the same time it also showed the unchanging. That’s just dissemination.]
[The scene of soldiers starving or complaining of fatigue due to supply appears every time. In severe cases, it even caused internal cracks.]
[There is no country that has not experienced supply problems.]
Wars that drove ordinary people to madness broke out on each front, and at the same time, the results came out, but people gradually began to realize.
That supply is the same as the success of a war. If there is no supply, it is mental power and there is nothing.
Even the United States struggled with supply during the early stages of the Pacific War. That’s what America is.
If he had not gained control of the sea through the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Guadalcanal, there is a high probability that he would have had a hard time afterwards.
Although it is highly likely that Japan would have self-destructed before then. As such, supply is a headache even for the United States.
[The United States is in fact supplying three places. The USSR in Europe, the UK in North Africa, and the Pacific by myself. Is this really possible?]
[The answer of military experts is absolutely ‘impossible’ and dismisses it as possible because it is a fantasy.]
[Military families’ self-help comments. If such a country existed, it would have ruled the world.]
Still, it is clear that the United States is easily supplying it even while fighting a two-sided war.
People asked military experts if this was possible, and most said it was impossible.
It may be because the technology has not yet developed, but it is almost impossible even if you think about it with common sense.
Moreover, in this world where even railroads are not properly developed, local procurement is the only answer. Many conditions are required in order to be pulled by a wagon.
[The army is a group of all technologies. The fact that such a spread is possible means that the technology has also advanced.]
[Not only the technology, but also the social part will be much more advanced. How the hell did the US military build such a supply capability?]
[An army that eats well anywhere in the world is brave and well-equipped mentally.]
[Large-scale teleportation is difficult even for elves and demons.]
The magic of the elves and the demons couldn’t use their power because of supply procurement.
Teleport is easy to move if it is a light object, but as the weight increases, the risk increases.
It means that the huge amount of supplies could all be blown away. Even if it were possible, the energy consumption would be enormous.
I don’t know if time goes on and teleport develops a little more and mass-energy equivalence is proven, but let’s move on to this later.
There is only one thing I’m curious about right now.
“How did you manage to supply supplies to the far north?”
“Are you saying that?”
“Yes. You have the same name as Marshall in the book.”
How could this man, Marshall (Kalas), have been able to smoothly supply supplies to that faraway northern land?