True...he (like Turkey really...) wanted nothing to do with it all...
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I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned...
The Germans were greeted as liberators in Russia and particularly the Ukraine by people sick of Stalin and his reforms. Had these people gotten support or at least decent treatment the Germans could have raised many divisions to fight the Sovs. Instead the SS came on the heals of the onrushing divisions and started doing what they do, murder, torture, rounding people up. Hell, some Nazi party bigshot, I forget who, actually gave a speach in Kiev in front of an eager crowd and told them they were all inferior subhumans! How to make friends and influence people, right? Before you know it partisans were all over German supply. The Germans couldn't possibly gaurd the railroad tracks in the endless steppe, but the tried and the effort detracted from the front.
Germans lost because they are Germans.Long time member @ Apolyton
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Originally posted by Azazel
but most people were very loyal to the Soviet government, esp. in Russia.
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Originally posted by paiktis22
Geramny had to divert troops to Greece because Italy failed to capture Greece.
That slowed the invasion of Germany to Russia.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Originally posted by Ozz
Loyal or afraid?
Ukrainian nationalists joined up with the Nazis, and IIRC, the first massacre at Baba Yar was actually carried out by Ukrainians, not the SS.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The invasion of the USSR wasn't delayed even by a single hour. It went off at the day and the hour planned for it to happen. The Balkan diversion delayed nothing.
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The Winter of 1812 was incredibly MILD for Russian winters: in retelling the great difficulties of the Grand Armee retreating, we get at least one description of great suffereing as many men drowned, or were left on the wrong bank when the ice over one major broke under the retreating army: the ice was weak due to the mildness of the winter. Napoleon made many mistakes. his army could have sat in moscow th whole mild winter and survived to campaign the next. Why he decided not to sit in Moscow, I cant tell, but it was a terrible mistake for his army.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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"Why he decided not to sit in Moscow, I cant tell, but it was a terrible mistake for his army."
I believe he had insufficient supplies to last out in Moscow for the winter months...there was no way of getting supplies to him, and he didn't trust his allies to remain allies (Prussia and Austria) for those winter months. So all in all logistically and politically he felt it unwise to spend 3 or 4 months tied up in Moscow.
Indeed, his flanking forces were also disintegrating under Russian pressure on the northern flank at least (and probably the southern as well) and it is unlikely they would have survived another 3 months holding out there...so come the spring he would have had a half starved army in Moscow, completely cut off from Poland.
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