[Larry381]

Hitler went to Smolensk to do what his generals wouldn’t or couldn’t; make a decision. Opposed to diverting Guderian’s panzers south were Brauchitsch, Halder, Bock and Guderian. Favoring the diversion were Rundstedt, and Kluge and Strauss, the commanders of Bock’s infantry armies, and the generals faced with [among their other tasks] protecting that right flank.

This is the first time I've heard that any major generals favored the move south. It appears many historians (at least the ones I've read) have neglected to dwell on this fact.

[PzLdr]

Most historians writing after the War were relying on the testimony, affidavits, studies done for the U.S. Army, by the German generals, including Halder. Their common themes were: all the mistakes were Hitler’s [if only he’d listened to us], and all the criminal acts were committed by the SS, including the same Waffen SS that saved their bacon more than once.

I first read of the dissension over the Kiev encirclement in, I believe, Alan Clarke’s “BARBAROSSA”.