Not if you are going into strategic defensive.
Long barreled guns are an upgrade to add firepower to a weapon conceived to exploit breakthroughs and drive deep behind enemy lines. Guderian...
That was a huge problem and it was appalling since Rostov railhead exclusively supplied Heeresgruppe A. So both Luftwaffe and Heeresgruppe B...
I'm aware that Model was infamous among the men because of his ruthlessness regarding losses. But there wasn't something better to be done. Model...
The problem is doctrinal: Panzers (even Panzer V) were not conceived to fight armor. Guderian wanted to create a strategic reserve of panzers for...
Zitadelle is very tricky to analyze. One reason is that 9. Armee was pulled from Rzhev to bolster Orel salient. With that the german line...
Well if the soviet offensive was conducted elsewhere (considering key spots along the front) it would have had the same ending. Keep in mind that...
Something similar happened to Weidling some years after.
German doctrine also stipulated that attacks conducted in extreme cold shall be more limited than in warm seasons because the days are short and...
Yeah but when the thrusts of West Front failed to secure intact villages or cities like Rhzev and Vyazma or Sychevka, the winter worked for the...
Theoretically Heer still had the strength to overcome a soviet offensive if acting accordingly. But Luftwaffe's situation was very different....
You are wrong. You can see why looking at the evolution from Map 5 to Map 7 from 'The german defeat in the east' by Earl Ziemke: [IMG] [IMG]...
