uhm yeah

stalin was moving his factorys and forces into siberia. trying to do the same thing to the germans that they did to napoleon. trap him in the russian winter. but western rusia was on the verge of collapsing under the nazi forces, hitler did lose a massive amount of troops fighting in russia but lets not forget that by this time hitler was fightin on 2 fronts. he made his mistake ofcomiting troops to russia prematuraly. france and spain had already fallen and england was on there knees getting ready to surrender when low and behold the japanese jumped the gun and bombed pearl harbour. this brung america into the war. hitler DID NOT want america in it so soon. by americans arriving in europe it strenghtened the forces of england and the french underground to the point that hitler had to start falling back. and he had to go on the defense. thereby reducing the number of troops he could comit to the russian campaign. when he retreated from russia it was not because it was un winnable but because he was facing defeat on the western front. so he had to enforce his front. oh and one other thing during WW II the german tiger tank was th most advanced and sophisticated main battle tank in the world. the russia t-34 and the american sherman tanks COULD NOT penatrate the armour. the russian have always been known for producing mass amounts of junk equipment. when the sherman was outfitted in late 43 with an 80 mm (i beleive it was 80) to replace the 72 mm main gun that was when they became a threat to german armour. the only 2 peices of equipment the russians evermade worth a crap was the mig fighter and the ak-47.

for a truly unbiased perspective of nazi germany and hitler read the book "the rise and fall of the 3rd reich"

one other tidbit when hitler took czechlosovakia he did so with out firing a shot just the threat of attack was enough. when his own generals inspect the czech fortifications they all agreed that hed they held out the nazis would have been defeated right there.