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The Battle of Stalingrad was possibly the most pivotal battle of the 2nd World War. It’s fate was to be the fate of the whole eastern front. If the Germans pushed the Soviets all the way back to the urals, the war would have been over. With the capitulation or destruction of the USSR, Germany would have access to the rich oil fields of the Caucuses, the rich metal ore mines of the urals, along with the vast farmlands and pastures of the Russian heartland. In our world, Germany lacked oil, rubber, chromium, tungsten, cobalt and other resources vital for the production of war materials, but in a world where Germany won the East, they would have had all these things in plenty. When we hit the Westwall, the German bunkers, guns and observation post that dotted the Atlantic coastline, we hit a Germany with not enough steel for coastal artillery, not enough concrete for bunkers, nor enough oil for trucks to transport anything. Fighting on two fronts meant most of their men, and all of the experienced combat forces, were in the East. If we had hit a prepared coastal defence, fully manned, with coastal guns, bunkers and air support, it would have made the real D-Day look like a joke. The casualties would have been immense. The coastal batteries would have sunk thousands of men to the bottom of the channel before they landed, anti-aircraft guns would have slaughtered paratroopers and the bunkers would cut down the staggered lines of men that managed to reach the shore. So if you are not assured of the importance of Stalingrad based only on the fact that two million men died, that it was the biggest battle in the biggest war in human history, or that it held the fate of almost one hundred million Russians, you know at least, that it would have cost the other Allies dearly.

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スターリングラードの戦いは第二次世界大戦の最も重要な戦いでした。それは運命は、全体の東の前部の運命をすることでした。ドイツは、ソ連のウラル山脈に戻ってすべての方法がプッシュされた場合、戦争終わっていたでしょう。降伏またはソビエト連邦の破壊は、ドイツが、コーカスの豊富な油田アクセス