CrusaderFrank
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Stalin would NEVER have picked up Hungary or much else in Eastern EuropeOh holy hell, you know NOTHING about WWII if you do not know that, and are demanding links.
Winter Line - Wikipedia
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Now quite a while back I brought up the battle of Monte Cassino. Which deadlocked the Allied forces south of Rome from January to May 1944. It took over 210,000 Allied forces to finally break through that, at the loss of over 55,000. Meanwhile, the Germans lost less than 20,000 as once they started to lose ground they simply pulled back.
Almost all of Italy was a massive delaying action by the German Army. They did not care how many civilians were killed, how many Italian treasures of architecture and cultural importance were destroyed, it was not their country. They were willing to see all of it destroyed, if only to slow down the Allies and kill more of them.
Battle of Monte Cassino - Wikipedia
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I normally do not use Wikipedia for a reference, but you seem to have forgotten everything I had ever said about the Invasion of Italy, and I am not willing to repeat it all over again. And obviously you have never learned of that part of the war, even through movies. Try watching The Audie Murphy Story, or The Big Red One. Both of which went over the Invasion of Italy.
Or you can simply look at this map. It shows the advancement through Italy, and even the territory the Allies held when the war ended when Der Paper Hangar ate a Walther Sandwich.