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No Hitlers strategy was at fault the only thrusts that mattered were
Moscow and the Caucusus via the Ukraine. honestly if he wanted to achieve elbow room effectively he would have been better to stop at the original border and consolidate poland for a year prior to the ill timed invasion. Hitlers interference in the movements of the army groups prevented the Vital support of Lizt in the caucauses which would have provided all the oil the germans needed and denied it to the soviets. the war in the east was not Misjudgement of terrain. it was the meddling of an egotistic megalomaniac in military affairs. the death of sixth army at "Stalingrad" shows how brilliant the russian strategy was, they killed an entire army with a name. how different a war it would be if moscow Fell first and and the caucuses and Egypt had recieved the support they deserved. German possesion of Moscow as an First Priority target would have done much to slow the soviet industrial move east and the organization of resistence, no it wouldnt have prevented the russian recovery but it would have resulted in meeting it on more equal terms later. the caucuses oil would have Put vitality in the german war effort the shortage of oil was paralytic to germany and this would have resolved much as well as oil from the desert if rommel had had as little as ten percent of the resources given to russia. I believe he is correct to say that germany lost the war when they declared war on russia and the US not because it was inevitable to lose but because germany erred so in trying |
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