Which nation did the Wehrmacht perform better against in 44-45?

Which nation did the Wehrmacht perform better against in 44-45?

  • USSR

    Votes: 4 19.0%
  • America/Britain

    Votes: 5 23.8%
  • They performed equally well against both

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • Total voters
    21

Wendigo

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Which army did the Wehrmacht perform better against in 1944-1945 the Red Army or the American/British Army?
 
I guess they did pretty well against Czechoslovak 1st Army. On other hand Czechoslovaks or we can say Slovaks manahed to hold in central Slovakia for two months. At least with app same sized forces involved casaulties were app same. If we don't count of course captured Slovaks after all was over.

Interestingly both sides were basically using ad hoc formations.
 
I presume you mean at the tactical level, since its operational level performance was both weak and irrelevant by then. I think you could actually split the US and UK into separate categories, since by late 1944 there's evidence that US forces could outfight the Germans given parity of numbers. I'm not sure that is the case for British ones, at least against experienced German units.

At the tactical level I believe Germany retained the ascendancy against the Red army almost to the very end.
 
You could almost say the Germans are fighting 3 separate fighting styles. With the Russians swarming them in huge numbers backed up by solid equipment. The US style of combined arms warfare in its logical extreme for the time period. And the British who to compensate for their smaller manpower pool go very heavily mechanised and armoured. So by default because the Germans are on the defensive their at capabilities improve leading to more problems for the British. Not that the British were poor fighters more the fact the Germans were more geared to countering armour due to the experiences of the Eastern Front.
 
It's also worth noting that for much of the last few months of the war many Germans just wanted to surrender to the first Brit or Yank they saw to avoid a Nagan in the back of the head or 15 years counting trees in Siberia if they ended up in Soviet hands.
 
Until roughly March of '45, I'd say they performed equally well. The WAllies lesser performance relative to the Soviets was generally a function of them being more cautious, not a function of the average German in the west being a better soldier then those in the east. From March of '45 onwards, though, the German army in the west basically stopped large-scale resistance, save for a very few fanatical hold outs, while in the east they resisted to the bitter end.
 
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