For PanzerJaeger, comparing the armies of WW2

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It is true that the Red Army improved greatly after the severe defeats of June 1941 thru the early part of 1942. That they survived to remain an Army was almost unbelieveable. No other nation on earth could have absorbed such a defeat with the exception of maybe China. That the Russians came back in 1943 with much improved weapons, tactics, and generalship is proof of their ability to adapt. To imply that they were superior to the German Army as a whole is somewhat eroneous however.

Even when one considers the disaster at Stalingrad, consider the rescources it required to defeat the 6th Army; something like 5 Tank Armies where required to envelop them. It was only Hitler's determination to hold the city that prevented them from breaking out-and they could have done so if they had immediately taken action before the opportunity for manuever was lost.
.....but I digress.

On anything like equal terms, the average German Panzer or Infantry Division could dish up their Russsian equivlant on any day of the week. Even in 1945, when the Soviets had JS IIs and T34/85s by the score, a German Panzer Battalion could take on any three similar sized Regiments (and a Russian "regiment" was in actuallity only battalion sized) before breakfast, reposition, and take on another such attack in the afternoon. I read, in Kenneth Macksey's Panzer Division: the Mailed Fist, of one German Tiger Platoon destroying around 40 Russian heavy tanks in less than an hour. Of course, when you have 100 more where that came from.....well, you see the picture.

Yes the Germans made some incredible strategic blunders, and true they were capable of making tactical errors as any army is. It must be said that for a Nation of 73,000,000, taking on the allies with a combined population of 300,000,000 plus, with an army that was never larger than 12 million, they certainly gave the allies a good dance at the party.