Manpower The German Army in the east drowned in "vast reservoirs of Soviet blood." ... Data shows the cold was not always as extreme as Hitler claimed, and in some regions "German forces were hardly affected" ; the weather was "only one factor of many." The "remarkable revival of Soviet manpower" was more important to the defense of Moscow than the cold. ... Stalin told Truman that the war was won with, "our blood, your steel." ...

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