The Soviet Army was probably the most under-rated by the Germans. Most Germans, whether in or out of the military, saw Slavs as inferior to Germans, and they mostly considered Soviet troops as tough fighters, but not very intelligent or well-trained. read more
The Germans were fine if they quickly defeated an army on narrow battlefields close to the German border, like France in World War II. It was a different matter when they tried to operate further from home on wider battlefields. World War I was lost by the Germans on the Marne just a month after they lunched the war. read more
If you measure brutality by the treatment of captured soldiers (POWs) and of civilians in occupied areas, then you have pretty much a tie between the. read more