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To: AppyPappy

Common sense would have also dictated providing warm winter clothing invading a country with such harsh conditions.

I do, however, contend that the logistics of invading a country the size of the USSR (3x the size of the US) along with its infamously notorious weather conditions made the possibility of success very remote. As advanced as Germany was compared to Russia, the Russians had a virtually inexhaustable supply of troops and resources compared to the Germans.

Hitler should have learned from Napoleon’s greatest mistake. Napoleon lost over half a million men invading Russia which were simply astronomical figures for the early 1800s especially relative to the population of France at that time.


62 posted on 05/11/2009 7:27:57 AM PDT by Welcome2thejungle
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To: Welcome2thejungle

Russia had the same inexhaustable supply of troops and resources in World War 1 and they folded. I bet Hitler was counting on the same.


63 posted on 05/11/2009 7:30:06 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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