It was honestly a reasonable assumption and a great gamble for Hitler personally. Especially with the Stalin officer purges, and the fact that...
as Opana pointed out they assumed there would be a 1917 style collapse once the red army was destroyed. So there wasn’t any need for this type of...
The problem is even more complicated. First, Russians used larger gauge rail stock. The Germans gambled on capturing soviet rolling stock which...
All I know about is that someone pointed out the fuel issue during the direct planning for Barbarossa. Stahel in his thesis book writes...
It's important to remember that Hitler in the 30s was thinking that he would have the entire West basically, including Britain, backing his...
I know this was shown in the pre-invasion planning, they only had fuel for about July if I recall right. I don’t remember who was raising the...
Hello all, I created this account because I get some ideas from my reading about ww2 and want to discuss them. I get quite influenced by...
