HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bitter Victory, Yalta Conference, Morgenthau Plan
Document Summary
They believed their own press: that soviets were dumb, slavs were a lesser people. The soviet union will not go down to collapse. The have a major part in the termination of nazi germany. Everyone will take part in massive carnage against germany. As soon as the soviets see that after the war the west would be supporting germany they begin to grab onto any land that they could: turning the tide: After blitzkrieg, one german general surrenders on feb 2 1943 in stalingrad (from. One could argue then because it is the first soviet step westward: wearing down the reich. After stalingrad, the germans are put on the defensive. The us at this time and the allies in general are producing far more tanks than the axis powers. Saturated bombing campaigns started on germany in 1940: liberating the west: The battle of kursk, largest tank battle ever. Soviets meanwhile are also moving further into germany elsewhere, toward berlin.
