80% of gernans killed were on the eastern front. Trump’s stat e m ent is false.
Killing Germans on a distant front line isn’t how you measure success. If they weren’t killed and continued rolling into Russia they would just be a threat to territory that was irrelevant and off no use to us or the west. They
would have to hold onto their gains or retreat back home to try and restore everything being bombed in the west.
Because when the US and UK air power destroyed Germany’s manufacturing capability those guys would have no supplies anyway.
The war may have been prolonged because they would have more troops to prevent invasion, but the German manufacturing capability to arm and supply those troops was being destroyed by the allies, regardless of anything going on in Russia. As was the German people’s will to keep fighting.