A tale of two Wehrmachts: The stark difference between Russian and English wikipedia entries on the Wehrmacht

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But if anyone deserves to boast about their wartime achievements, it is the Russians.

One feature is that they emphasize the Eastern front above all else. This is not unjustified however considering that the Eastern Front was the main front of ww2 and other fronts were essentially supplementary to it. 80% of all German losses were against the Soviets and the German armies were destroyed by the Soviets in great battles like Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, Dnieper, Dnieper-Carpathian offensive, and Bagration.

By the time the allies landed in Normandy, the German army was a half-dead skeleton depleted from years of war with the Soviets.

One can only imagine how much bravado Americans could've shown if say the Soviets had suddenly made peace with Germany the day after Normandy and the Reich was able to transfer 80 divisions west. or if the Americans had merely fought original German divisions at full strength with a full complement of equipment.

I might be wrong here but I think the allied pocket in Normandy would've been contained or crushed against the sea had the Soviets not launched operation Bagration in June and destroyed 43 German divisions and diverted vast numbers of reinforcements to Poland.