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To: C19fan

The biggest flaw of operation Barbarosa was winter, an over extended sully line, and a constant change of directives from Hitler.


2 posted on 11/24/2014 6:35:35 AM PST by DownInFlames
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To: DownInFlames

The biggest flaw of Barbarosa was even attempting it. There was no way the Reich was going to win a two front war.

As for the T-34, I guess you could say that it was a war winning tank - but stepping back for a second, there was no way Germany would ever conquer such a large, mineral rich and populous country. If they hadn’t come up with the T-34, they would have come up with something else to overwhelm the Germans with.

And that’s what the T-34 did - over whelm with massive numerical superiority.


3 posted on 11/24/2014 6:40:42 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: DownInFlames

Another flaw was treating the locals as sub-humans when they initially welcomed the Germans as liberators. Had they armed them and proclaimed Ukraine as a liberated country there would have been much less resistance from them.


9 posted on 11/24/2014 6:57:13 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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