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Hitler's Greatest World War II Mistake: Trying to Capture Moscow

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Hitler's Greatest World War II Mistake: Trying to Capture Moscow
By Michael Peck/ Security/ Europe/ Blog:The Buzz/ The National Interest/ nationalinterest.org

"His gamble failed.

It was Hitler's gamble that proved fatal. 1941 and 1942 would be the last years that the Germans had the luxury of waging a one-front war.

In October 1941, the Second World War teetered on a knife edge.

There was war in China and war in North Africa, and soon there would be war between America and Japan. But in the autumn of 1941, the only war that really seemed to matter was fought in a portion of central Russia.

Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, had begun brilliantly on June 22, 1941. Encirclement after encirclement had inflicted almost 4 million casualties on the huge but disorganized Soviet armies. By early October, they had advanced to within 200 miles of Moscow. Now came Operation Typhoon, the offensive to seize the Soviet capital and—or so the Germans hoped—end the campaign....."

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On one level, I can see why. Germany NEEDED petroleum, which Russia did have. It wasn't in Moscow, but until it's political leadership was removed, harvesting would have been problematic. Oil was the key to shutting down the war machine.
 

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Fascinating as usual, Richard
 
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