Different tactics

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Originally Posted by Schwuppes

He totally screwed up the Luftwaffe, which basically cost the Germans the eastern front.

What??? At the risk of dragging this off topic, that makes no sense. Even IF (a HUGE IF) Germany had captured Moscow in their initial assault, the USSR would've still swallowed up their army. It was just too big, the logistics would've killed them. And once they failed to reach Moscow, the Soviet Union was never in serious danger again, despite Stalin's crazy squawking for urgent assistance.

About the ONLY way I could see Germany beating the USSR in WW2 would have been to take Moscow before the first winter (as it was the massive, central transportation and logistical hub) AND THEN rearm and reuse captured POWs under a new Russian general against Stalin. Then you might have been able to avoid the enormous costs of local guerillas, gain greater civilian cooperation and output, and aquire sufficient military manpower to take that enormous country. But that didn't quite fit with the Nazi view of Russians, despite urgent efforts by some Army officers to get the million-plus willing POWs on the field against Stalin.

As others have said, that's a good thing for the rest of us! Except the Russians. And the Eastern Block.