The Germans were out of tanks and out of gas by the time they got to El Alamein. It still took Montgomery months to clear them out. German losses in the battle were 1,100 killed, 3,900 wounded and 7,900 prisoners and Italian losses as 1,200 killed, 1,600 wounded and 20,000 prisoners.
Germans lost 400,000 at Stalingrad, Italians 114,000, Romanians 109,000, Hungarians 105,000.
A catastrophe like that isn’t propaganda.
Exactly. El Alamain was nothing compared to Stalingrad.
After El Alamain the Germans could still go on the offensive. After Stalingrad, the war was basically lost.
Kursk made it official.