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On 21 July, after discussing tlie invasion of England with his mili-tary advisers, Hitler asked Field Marshai Walter von Brauchitsch, the...
There is no indication at that time that the Soviets could either, known facts until that time actually pointed to the opposite.
Agreed and great points. What I've been saying all along is that the plan was to destroy the known Soviet forces west of the Dnieper/Smolensk...
I agree that you can't pin success or failure on a single issue, but I do believe that we can identify significant factors and the most decisive...
I understand what your saying, but you are still using your own logic and more or less speculating as to what the evidence you reference actually...
Agreed, Astrakhan etc is fantasy stuff for the Stolfi crowd. There were Soviet lines that were captured intact and used as Barbarossa progressed,...
Thats a bit of a exaggeration don't you think Steve? The Army's railroad battalions were undermanned, under equipped and under prioritized in...
No, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of German planning I can tell with certainty that is your opinion, your logic and is unsupported by...
And as I stated there was a solution available to greatly increase the efficiency of rail operations by giving the authority to the rightful...
In 1942 your assessment would be correct, but we are talking about 1941. There was every possibility to increase the size of the replacement army...
Thats not my understanding of it, as backed by "Forgotten Legions: German Army Infantry Policy 1918-1941"...
It wasn't done because according to the Intel estimate of the Red Army that would be encountered during Barbarossa, the replacement army built a...
Objection? Yes.... Wehrmacht planning started with an overall assessment of the situation to include a strength estimate of the enemy's forces...
They weren't trying to form a continuous front, where did you get that from? Many French trucks were substituted into the German civilian sector...
I'm not sure what you've read on the topic Steve, but the Germans assumed that the Red Army in the Western Districts was the main force AND...that...
No, they were based upon projected need and assets were diverted elsewhere that could have been put into the support plan of Barbarossa (overall...
First of all, WHY would you assume that if the Germans had better Intel they would automatically pursue the same strategy as the OTL??? Secondly,...
