[Kurttis Thomas]

If you have ever noticed hitler didn't seem to care for genrals advice when he invaded Russia. If you ask me thats one of the major reasons why he lost against the soviets. Another thing is he liked to meddle around with things exe tank forces. when he invaded Russia he wanted to get to Moscow before the autum rains. This would be acomplished by using the Blitzgrieg tactics he used to conqure almost all of Eroupe. He invaded Russia with thre army groups the strongest of which was army group center then there was army group norht and south. Army group center had the most tanks of the three. they were chargred with capturing Moscow. Hitler was making huge progres with all the army groups he has total air supirioraty and tank supirioraty. Even with this he is making less progress in the south because of better organized resistence. He was making head way everywear espcially in the center, but after a while he started to medal with his tank forces. He moved the bulk of the tanks from Army group center to the other two which were largely made of of infantry that were largely reliant on their feet. Eventhough the Blitzgrieg tactics stated that the infantry should be mobilized. Thias meant that the tank spear heads would somtimes get days ahead of the bulk of the infantry. This meant that somtimes that they would have to wait for them to catch up. also supply lines were being streched. Then he decided to move the tanks back to army group center which took up the limited time that they had before the fall and the winter. By the time every thing was where they were supposed to be the autum rains started russia had very little paved roads outside of large cities and because of this and the almost never ending rain the advance was slowed cosiderably. when the winter came the roads froze and the advance started up again but now the poor guys are freezing in their summer uniforms. Well one day they get in binocular range of Moscow and they think well one more bg push and we'll have won well that night tanks freeze up so do the wepons and the russians launch some counterattacks which turn into counter offensives they push the germans back about 60 and then some more and you know the rest it turned into 1942. Which had it's summer offensive but none ever got that close to moscow again. I think that if Hitler hadn't medaled that he could have won the war in Russia at least by the end of the autum or the begining of the winter.