(November 14, 2015 at 1:27 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(November 14, 2015 at 12:52 am)Minimalist Wrote: I don't agree, Wyrd. The German Army prepared to fight the next war rather than the Allies who prepared to fight the last war all over again. Germany was outnumbered by the British and French who had more and better tanks. It was German tactics of blitzkrieg warfare which overwhelmed the Allies in 1940.It's too bad for Hitler that the war didn't end in 1940. He was toast as soon as his troops started shooting.
His last chance for not losing the war was in July 1941. But He vacillated over how the war should be conducted in Russia between focusing on the annihilation of (known) soviet armies in the west, and quickly seizing the strategic objectives of Moscow and Leningrad. He tries to do both, wasted 2 month of prime campaigning weather and ran the panders into the ground by making them deploy first for one objective and then the other.
Had he struck directly for Moscow he may well have taken Moscow by October and forced a negotiated peace with what is left of the USSR. if that happened, he and germany may well survive a long time.