Why did the fortress cities fail? Did Germany put all it's skill points into offense and none into defense?

Why did the fortress cities fail?
Did Germany put all it's skill points into offense and none into defense?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Manufacturing and logistics

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >why did the resource limited country fighting a war on two fronts lose
    Tough question, for a moron.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think it had something to do with being resource limited and trying to fight a war on two fronts

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Most of the fortresses were cut off and isolated, and you can only hold out for so long without resupply.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because the attackers didn't care about civilian casualties or collateral damage.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    digits

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      DIGITS INDEED, MY FRIEND!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You missed all zeroes, epic fail

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    getting bombed 24/7 and getting all your supply trucks/trains strafed

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did the fortress cities fail?
    things like air power, bombs and artillery make everything about "Fortress" cities fail.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Canadians are too ruthless

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It turns out that large garrisons in urban centers cut off from resupply just starve and die of disease rather than fighting heroically to the bitter end. A lesson you'd think the Germans would have learned after Stalingrad.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Flakturms were invincible. Sniping tanks with AA and shit.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      And planes just went around them. Now they can't even be demolished because they're so fricking strong.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    flamethrowers, snipers, street level canons to level specific floors, and keeping tabs on every building

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They weren't even well setup or planned. Hitler just said, 'this is a fortress city now you can't pull back' and then his generals would desperately try to get him to change his mind.
    City would get encircled, then they would have to try and relieve it, that usually failed and everyone died or surrendered. Post Kursk the Eastern front was just a giant cluster frick for Germany. It was after Stalingrad but Kursk really sealed it.

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Putting aside that Germany was always always going to lose simply due to manpower and matériel disadvantages, Hitler’s “festung” doctrine was moronic because it just arbitrarily made it so regional commands couldn’t ever withdraw their forces in the face of impossible odds, leading to multiple encirclements and unnecessary losses for the already stretched German Army.

    It was just another of Hitler’s unnecessary directives that hamstrung the German Army and the ability of its commanders to react to threats dynamically.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      He was really stuck in the pre-WW1 mindset, since static fortresses already sucked ass in the Great War

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        His “mindset” was that of someone with zero officer training. His armed forces were usually succeeding in spite, not because of him.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's not like the German officer corps wasn't full of aristocrats huffing their own farts anyway

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Well they inflicted much bigger casualties to the attacking Soviet

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