This is disappointing - I really thought most Europeans knew better then this.
The answer is obviously the Soviet Union.
After Barbarossa (the German attack on the Soviets), Germany never committed less then 75% of her land forces against the Soviets.
While the British and American contribution obviously was valuable as well, and it was the combined effort of all Allied forces that ended the war - and at the time it did - there is still no question that the Soviet Union did the majority of the heavy lifting.
The western Allies would have gotten absolutely nowhere in North Africa, Italy or France if they had been met by the kind of German forces the Soviets fought on the eastern front.
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This is disappointing - I really thought most Europeans knew better then this.
The answer is obviously the Soviet Union.
After Barbarossa (the German attack on the Soviets), Germany never committed less then 75% of her land forces against the Soviets.
While the British and American contribution obviously was valuable as well, and it was the combined effort of all Allied forces that ended the war - and at the time it did - there is still no question that the Soviet Union did the majority of the heavy lifting.
The western Allies would have gotten absolutely nowhere in North Africa, Italy or France if they had been met by the kind of German forces the Soviets fought on the eastern front.