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In the third year of war Germany began to suffer from a lack of important resources such as oil. Hitler therefore ordered the German army to take the city of Stalingrad and the oil fields of Baku in South Russia. The operation failed after the 6th German army was encircled in Stalingrad and completely annihilated. The [[Battle of Stalingrad]] marked a turning point in the war and the Soviet Union started launching their own offensives. After a time of comparatively slow progress, the brilliant Soviet officer, Konstantin Rokossovsky, engineered "Operation Bagration", named-so after the Napoleonic Russian hero. The operation was extremely successful for the Soviets, leading to around 600,000 Soviet casualties and over 500,000 German casualties, including over 60,000 German vehicles and tanks. Even the Germans' best officer, Erich von Manstein, couldn't turn the situation around. Finally, in 1945, Soviet troops stormed Berlin, and forced Nazi Germany into capitulation.
In the third year of war Germany began to suffer from a lack of important resources such as oil. Hitler therefore ordered the German army to take the city of Stalingrad and the oil fields of Baku in South Russia. The operation failed after the 6th German army was encircled in Stalingrad and completely annihilated. The [[Battle of Stalingrad]] marked a turning point in the war and the Soviet Union started launching their own offensives. After a time of comparatively slow progress, the brilliant Soviet officer, Konstantin Rokossovsky, engineered "Operation Bagration", named-so after the Napoleonic Russian hero. The operation was extremely successful for the Soviets, leading to around 600,000 Soviet casualties and over 500,000 German casualties, including over 60,000 German vehicles and tanks. Even the Germans' best officer, Erich von Manstein, couldn't turn the situation around. Finally, in 1945, Soviet troops stormed Berlin, and forced Nazi Germany into capitulation.
==Western Front==
In 1944, America finally opened the second front, as Stalin had asked. With a decisive victory at the Normandy landings, the stage was set for the final defeat of Nazi Germany. General George S. Patton Jr., considered by the Germans to be the Allies' finest general, used a perfected version of lightning-fast tank maneuvers that astounded even the inventors of blitzkrieg. In the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's last offensive was crushed, leaving the road to Berlin open. Despite resistance from Volkssturm militia, Allied armies had effectively cleared West Germany by 1945. Patton's offensives were halted in Czechoslovakia, where his attempts to liberate Eastern Europe from Communism were met with hatred from liberals in the Truman Administration. Patton could have destroyed the entire Russian army with his might, but scared Communist spies such as Alger Hiss made sure that Stalin would rule Eastern Europe.
==Far East==
==Far East==