The Germans had paid everything to launch the Battle of Stalingrad.
To avoid falling into a manpower disadvantage like they had during the Battle of Moscow, the German Government had even issued the General Mobilization Order.
This so-called general mobilization was far more extensive than Germany's previous mobilization efforts.
Germany hoped to increase the size of its army from five million to at least ten million. This also meant that the German Army's numerical disadvantage could be quickly made up.
Of course, such a mobilization policy was not without its drawbacks.
Although the army's size could soar into the tens of millions, for the Germans, whose population was only a little over eighty million, this was equivalent to sending one out of every eight Germans to the battlefield.
It had to be remembered that nearly half of those more than eighty million Germans were women, while among the remaining half were large numbers of the elderly and children.
The truth was that nearly all adult German men were serving the war effort. Once the new mobilization policy was fully implemented, adult German men would basically have only two choices: either enter a Munitions Factory to produce weapons and ammunition for the country, or go to the battlefield and use those weapons and ammunition.
Such a decision was utterly insane, but the Germans did not complain in the slightest.
Or rather, to the Germans, the humiliation they had suffered after World War I had already filled them with enough fury to march resolutely onto the battlefield.
There might have been disagreements within Germany over the decisions of war, but when it came to whether to fight or not, most Germans were completely united: they would fight with their backs to the wall.
Before that, however, the Germans could still spend a