so Slon what do you want to know ? I've lived and breathed in -40F below and will not mention where.

two friend served on the Ost front, both during the whole war, I have some pretty grim stories from both of them, one of the brothers was on his way to Moscow, and general winter did the Wehrmacht in as he can testify but the Soviets really did not have it any better in his eyes, true the Heer was short on heavy winter wear but the dead Russians they found were no better equipped than them. they had to continually build fires where they could find any wood under there AFV's and trucks to get them mobil.
Weapons jammed non-stop due to freezing there was an acute shortage of grease and oil, and then what almost everyone forgets was the spring thaw of the sheer weight of fighting daily the abundance of mud