gracie4241 wrote: ↑10 Aug 2018, 20:51
Except that Stalin PUBLICLY said to his people(july 27,1942) that the loss of the Ukraine AND the Caucasus(by conquest or blockade) would FATALLY reduce the raw material basis of their war effort as BLAU was at high tide.Think we should give him some benefit of knowing his own position, don't you?
Ofcourse, Stalin knew his own position! But who said that he manifested publicly his real position? Du you think he was a dolt or truth-speaker?
Watch his real doing not his publicly speaking!
... the hurdle here is coming to grips with the fact that Hitler, and NOT his generals was right
Hitler was right ... theoretically, but in that particular situation of summer-autumn-41 was right, very likely, Halder. Hitler, thanks to the victories of his generals, became impudent and decided that he would always "play white figures", that is, have the initiative. To humiliate the military and neutralize their military achievements, he began to teach them the basics of Economics and as a result received a counteroffensive by Moscow. This is an indisputable fact, I agree.