[starbase]

US troops did not save Europe from Hitler.

Yes, I'm familiar with this idea, but it is not true. Without US global power, the Reich would have regrouped and destroyed Russia.

There were 29 Nazi (and I stress Waffen SS) divisions in Western Europe which, if directed to the East, would have obliterated the Russian units. Plus the fact the US support allow the 1000 bomber raids against Germany industry. So this is a myth that Europeans like to believe in, that great Russia was saving them from Hitler's Reich.

In fact, without US ground support (and of course, stopping Japan from Eastern attack) and of course again, bombing German factories, there is no mathematical way backwards Russia could have defeated the evil Third Reich. Anything else is a nationalistic lie.

[A. Pole]

There were 29 Nazi (and I stress Waffen SS) divisions in Western Europe which, if directed to the East, would have obliterated the Russian units.

Why they did not obliterate Soviet Russia in 1941 and 1942?

[A. Pole]

In fact, without US ground support (and of course, stopping Japan from Eastern attack) and of course again, bombing German factories, there is no mathematical way backwards Russia could have defeated the evil Third Reich. Anything else is a nationalistic lie.

I am not sure how nationalism gets into it? Are your national feelings as American offended?

We do not know what could happen if Japan did not attack USA. The world is a big place - Japan could be bogged down in huge China (where Soviet supported Communism was gaining ground), there was also India, Indo-China where Communism was also spreading.

Remember that Communism was strong in Europe and that German occupation was not very popular there.