Agreed on the timing of operation Barbarossa. On the attack on Russia on the whole I think it was "you´re damned if you do, you´re damned if you don´t...". The Russian resources were huge, as we have noticed.

You remember that the first set date was 15th May, later on 15th June and finally 22th June. I think this was due to the operation Marita mostly. With the additional 5 weeks, well what? Maybe,maybe not. Hitler would not give more tanks or men to attack but instead of stopping in December 1941 it would have been late October as the German forces would have been in front of Moscow. Assuming things would go the same way.

Then again it has been said that as it was so late in the summer Stalin believed the Germans daren´t attack in 1941 anymore?

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