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Regardless of the best initiatives of lots of historians, many areas of the ferocious have difficulty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World Warfare stay obscure or shrouded in misconception. One of the most persistent of the is the notion - essentially created by many former members of its own official corps in the immediate postwar period - that the German Military was a paragon of armed forces professionalism and operational proficiency whose defeat on the Eastern Leading was solely attributable to the amateurish meddling of the crazed former Corporal and the frustrating numerical superiority of the Red Military. An integral pillar upon that your discussion of German numerical-weakness vis-à-vis the Red Military has been designed is the assertion that Germany was simply not capable of providing its army with the necessary quantities of men and equipment needed to replace its losses. In consequence, as their losses outstripped the availability of substitutes, German field formations became progressively weaker until these were incapable of acquiring their objectives. This work seeks to address the idea of German numerical-weakness in terms of Germany's potential to replace its losses and regenerate its armed forces strength, and determine just how exact this discussion was during the crucial first fifty percent of the Russo-German Warfare.
