Hitler's defeat: why didn't the Wehrmacht capture Moscow?

[@vanpaul147]

Hitler underestimated everything except himself

[@markmajors3256]

Germany had a corporal pretending to be a general and head strategies was there main problem

[@xornxenophon3652]

Well, the germans, led by a corporal, still achieved more than the french when they were led by the best general in human history, so...

[@laurentcherrier8492]

@@xornxenophon3652 Napoléon managed to occupy Moscow...

[@xornxenophon3652]

@@laurentcherrier8492 That is true, but the Germans penetrated deeper into Russia, were not forced to retreat in a hurry and also did not get their whole army annihilated in six months. So that Austrian corporal got closer to victory than the French general.

[@kbanghart]

​@@xornxenophon3652 "closer" 😁🤷

[@xornxenophon3652]

@@kbanghart Hey, third time is a charm...

[@jamieking3062]

Editing seemed a bit different but I enjoyed it. Very cool.

[@richardsmith579]

Well done, but the overdubbed narrator was a distraction.

[@beatapogorzelska1241]

Horrid sound and an awful automatic speaker.

[@gandydancer9710]

What's with the strange noises when clips are being played?

[@andrewweaver2517]

How can anyone listen to this robotic voice.

[@occidentadvocate.9759]

Brilliant video. 👍

[@historywithoutmyths]

thank you

[@robmartin217]

It seems like delaying the invasion was critical in securing victory.....

[@davidwest2240]

Well then drop losing the war so their decision was wrong maybe they would have lost anyway but all we know is that the decisions they made lost them the war.

[@elainecameron5545]

They underestimated the resilence of the Russian army and the weather and terrain

[@kbanghart]

And allied war production in general. The Germans didn't get their "total War" economy going until 1943 or even 44 in some cases. Way too late.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Hitler turning his armor south towards Ukraine rather than Moscow pretty much ended possibility of capturing the Capital before winter. Also siege of Leningrad was beyond their capability and should have used Maneuver warfare to defeat scattered Soviet forces.

[@zephyrus339]

But Ukraine was pretty much 50% of the entire reason Hitler invaded the Soviet Union (The other 50% was the oil of the Caucasus). Germany was steering straight towards a food and fuel crisis and needed the wheat and oil if it wanted to survive. In fact in Hitler's original vision of Barbarossa the southern thrust was the main thrust, as this would have yielded him the vital grain fields of Ukraine. However Franz Halder looked at this plan and thought: "We defeated France by taking Paris, therefore if we capture Moscow we will have defeated the Soviet Union." With that, Halder altered Hitler's plan by changing the main thrust towards Moscow. Hitler was furious and ordered Ukraine to be taken, as in his vision the grain fields of Ukraine where strategically important for the food situation in Germany. To him Moscow had way less value as a strategic objective. With this screw-up, and Halder's later screw-up of denying reinforcements to Army Group South when they were trying to take the oilfields and fighting Stalingrad, Halder is one of the reasons the Eastern Front was lost. It's no wonder Hitler later sacked him.

[@mmiYTB]

Aykchually... Russians had 85mm AA guns. :-)

[@mikemines2931]

WWII could be summed up in three words for the Germans, oil, oil, oil.

[@JGD185]

Never underestimate your opponent

[@bigdogzone3177]

The Germans failed to enter Moscow because Russia Froze and it was one of the coldest winter on record. Main reason for this is because barbarosa started with delay, With Mussolini invading Greece RaF planes started taking off from Greek Airfields hitting the German refineries in Romania . Mussolini got his arse kicked by the Greeks and the Germans had to come rescue their ally .Had this not happened maybe history would be different. Furthermore since the books on the table was Russian and they have history of changing things writen suit their needs i would take them with a grain of salt. Have most of them in my collection too :)

[@JGD185]

It's interesting to speculate what would have happened in Moscow was captured. It could have led to a chain reaction collapse across the USSR, or it might not have been such a big deal. Much of Soviet war manufacturing was sent far East and Stalin was prepared to keep fighting. Some think the Germans winning at Stalingrad would have had a much bigger impact because that was the key railway hub for all the critical resources from the Caucasus like wheat, oil, etc. Without those resources it would have been hard for the USSR to keep fighting.

[@MrProsat]

The Balkans excuse is lame. The weather was very wet and muddy in May in East Poland. The units in Greece were able to get to Russia soon enough. Made little difference. Logistics was the reason for the German failure. Germans were terrible at logistical planning. Operational planning didn't take into account what was possible in fuel, ammo and food. Germans simply bit off more than they could chew. Barbarossa completely depended upon wishful thinking - that all of the Russian army would be west of the Dnepr and would be surrounded and destroyed quickly, leaving no Russians around Smolensk and Kiev.

[@bigdogzone3177]

@@MrProsat The balkan campaign is a documented fact and so is the fact that greece was a neutral country until Mussolini invaded . When that happened ahd he was humiliated germany had to come save their ally. Instead of going your full of .......... sit down read some books and watch some documentaries

[@MrProsat]

@@bigdogzone3177 calm down and read what i wrote. The balkan campaign is a bad excuse to blame barbarossa's failure. I never said the balkans never happened....if it did NOT happen, the weather would have delayed barbarossa into june anyways

[@ce7618]

Spot on big dog. The weather was a big part of the the win for Russia

[@kbanghart]

Also didn't need to take Stalingrad, just hold the Volga.

[@cowdaddy4595]

In other words, the Fuhrer did not do such a good job of planning this expedition.

[@ndorobei4391]

Winter. He did the same as Napoleon.

[@dakkossman2063]

Russians fought in the same conditions

[@tomhoffa2681]

moscow was only of secondary importance! strange how the fascist didn't know that they were sitting on a lifetime of oil in Tunisia and Libya!?

[@ce7618]

Germany got frozen out before getting to Russia. That's why

[@godschild3640]

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[@superscion8108]

The huge amount of area and the EVER INCREASING AMOUNTS of RUSSIAN SOLDIERS !!

[@godschild3640]

HIS HOUSE IS IN MEXICO

[@jamieking3062]

Stalin was like " Hey boy go fight and win or be executed right now." That's a great motivational speech. Yea very motivational.

[@albert-rn6wp]

Histler

[@davidrizkk]

Germany was a 3rd rate country in economics, in the air, on the sea. It had no oil. It had no chance. But Russia’s hostility made the war inevitable anyway.

[@bronson5723]

Yet while the rest of the world suffered from crisis and the Great Depression, Germany managed to build its army, boom their economy no matter the heavy sanctions imposed after WW1. It was really down to poor judgment and irrational moves!

[@brianlundie2634]

Hitler failed to take Moscow because of the harsh winter, German troops couldn't get supplies they needed to the front line, if had then Moscow would have fallen