Just curious, but who haven't moved on to SH4?

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Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb

The problem with the Soviet front is that Hitler was obsessed with Stalingrad. If he had just encircled Stalingrad and left it to starve like Leningrad he would have been ok. Once Moscow had been taken the Soviets would have been more or less knocked out of the war. IIRC Army group centre was only about 30miles from the gates of Moscow? At the start of the war Hitler was a very clever man, but by the time Stalingrad came around he was a complete loony and hooked on god knows how many drugs. This ultimately led him to making disasterous decisions towards the end of the war. Its like if the generals had sent down the panzer division waiting north of the normany beach heads the invasion would have failed and the allies pushed back into the sea, but the generals didn't order the panzers to move because they were afraid Hitler might order them shot or something, especially after Rommel and other top ranking generals were pushed aside or accused of treason etc.

You seem to be forgetting the Russian Winter. They weren't prepared for Winter fighting and the option to starve out Stalingrad was simply NOT possible. Moscow wasn't taken because the supply lines were too long to safely protect. I wouldn't believe all the crapola that is circulating concerning Hitler's drug addictions and sanity. Don't forget the VICTORS get to write the history books and the view is almost always slanted against the losers. Same thing happened after the American Civil War. It all became about "ending slavery", which is complete BS.

As to the Normandy beachhead...no way those Panzer divisions could have made one bit of difference. First of all, the Allies had complete air superiority, so moving them during daylight was impossible. Plus consider the size of the force opposing those Panzer divisions. The beachead was far too big and the numbers were far to great for the German divisions in France to be able to offer any meaningful resistance. As for Rommel...he WAS treasonous because he supported the attempt on Hitler's life.