https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref en-us 2022-11-23 16:42:21 UTC 2022-11-28 06:57:15 UTC hello@padlet.com yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2395844314 Three army groups under the command of the same officers that overran France in 1940 were prepared to launch an assault. Gen. Wilhelm von Leeb led an army group that launched an attack from East Prussia into the Baltic states toward Leningrad. From southern Poland into Ukraine against Kiev, a second army group led by General Gerd von Rundstedt advanced with an armoured group led by General Paul Ludwig von Kleist. From there, they intended to turn southeast to the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. The main attack was made by General Fedor von Bock's army group, to the north of the Pripet Marshes, with two armoured groups, one under General Heinz Guderian and the other under General Hermann Hoth, advancing northeastward at Smolensk and Moscow.]]> 2022-11-23 17:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2395844314 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2397062344 https://www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Barbarossa

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/opbarb.html

https://www.operationbarbarossa.net/operation-barbarossa-overview-of-the-forces-involved-and-the-axis-objectives/]]> 2022-11-24 16:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2397062344 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2398145183 The Soviet leadership was completely taken off guard by the invasion along a 2,900-km front, which also caught the Red Army off guard and largely demobilised. On the first day of the invasion, Guderian's tanks sped 80 km across the border as part of Bock's group's southern flank, and by June 27, they had reached Minsk, capital of Belarus, 320 km away. At Minsk, they came together with Hoth's tanks, which had attacked from the northern flank, but Bock's infantry could not follow up quickly enough to complete the encirclement of the Soviet troops in the area. Despite 300,000 prisoners were taken in the salient, a significant portion of the Soviet forces managed to flee to the east. ]]> 2022-11-25 16:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2398145183 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2398152268 After crossing the Dnieper River on July 10, Guderian's tanks moved into Smolensk six days later and met up with Hoth's assault through Vitebsk. 200,000 Soviet prisoners were taken, but some Soviet forces withdrew from the trap to the Desna River's line, and a significant pocket of resistance was hidden behind the German armour. Furthermore, by mid-July, a string of downpours had turned the sandy Russian roads into sluggish mud, making it impossible for the German transport's wheeled vehicles to advance behind the tanks faster than a snail's pace. By this time, the resisting Soviets adopted the "scorched earth policy", which means to destroy anything that could be use to the German army, if forced to withdraw. As the German army advanced, the Red Army burned crops, destroyed bridges, and evacuated factories.]]> 2022-11-25 17:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2398152268 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399678891 However, the Germans had made more than 640 km of progress by mid-July and were only 320 km from Moscow. They still had plenty of time to make significant gains before the arrival of winter, but they missed their chance primarily as a result of Hitler's disagreements with Germany's Upper Command throughout the month of August on the direction of the subsequent thrusts. Hitler wanted the main effort to be conducted southeastward, via Ukraine and the Donets Basin into the Caucasus, with a modest swing northwestward against Leningrad to converge with Leeb's army group, whilst the OKH had proposed Moscow as the main objective.]]> 2022-11-28 05:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399678891 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399685353 Rundstedt and Kleist, military officers in Ukraine. quickly dismantled the strongest Soviet fortifications. By the end of July, a new Soviet front south of Kiev had been broken, and in the next two weeks, the Germans had pushed down to the Black Sea mouths of the Bug and Dnieper rivers to join Romania's continuous attack. Guderian is moving south toward Gomel and Starodub as Hitler insists on destroying the Soviet South-West Front before continuing the assault in the Center. ]]> 2022-11-28 05:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399685353 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399703445 The Soviet soldiers behind Kiev were thereafter to be circled in a pincer movement by Kleist, coming from central Ukraine, and Guderian, coming from Smolensk. By the end of September, the movement's claws had captured 520,000 men. These massive encirclements were partially Stalin's fault as commander in chief, who obstinately disregarded the advice of his generals and ordered his armies to stand and fight rather than retreating eastward and regrouping in anticipation of a counteroffensive, and partially the fault of incompetent Soviet high commanders. When forces simultaneously assault an enemy formation's flanks (sides), it is known as a pincer movement, sometimes known as a double envelopment.]]> 2022-11-28 05:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399703445 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399739792 Bock was told to continue pushing into Moscow. On October 2, 1941, Bock's renewed offensive officially began. When Bock's armies successfully completed a massive encirclement around Vyazma, where 600,000 more Soviet soldiers were taken, it appeared that its possibilities were favourable. For a brief while, the Germans had a nearly direct route to Moscow. However, the Vyazma battle wasn't over until late October; the German troops were worn out; the terrain grew inconvenient as a result of the bad weather. As the Germans trudged painfully forward, new Soviet forces materialised in their way. Some German generals wished to abandon the attack and adopt a proper winter position. Brauchitsch and Halder tended to agree with Bock's assessment that the Soviet Union was about to collapse, and Bock wanted to press on because of this belief. Hitler didn't object because that was also what he wanted. None of the top leaders could resist Moscow at nearly the palm of their hands. Around this time, a mass amount of frostbite cases came in as temperatures dropped in Russia.]]> 2022-11-28 06:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399739792 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399746560 More effort was made, and some German detachments entered the Moscow suburbs, but the overall advance was slowed down by the forests that surrounded the city. The effects of the Russian winter, whose subzero temperatures were the worst in several decades, contributed to the slowing of this final stage of the massive German advance. The troops lacked winter gear, and the Germans' motorised transport, tanks, artillery, and aircraft were rendered inoperable by the bitter weather. In contrast, the Soviets were well-equipped and had a tendency to fight more successfully in the winter than the Germans did.]]> 2022-11-28 06:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399746560 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399751511 Demands were made by soldiers due to the poor weather conditions that were eating away at the Germany army. After a heated argument, Hitler finally agrees to abandon offensive to Moscow, and to retreat safer defensive positions. This costs the Nazis their nearly successful invasion of Moscow.]]> 2022-11-28 06:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399751511 yd8477 https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399753677 The temperature drops that began in October only had brought worse effects by November. By this time, the Germans had suffered over 730,000 losses, proportions that had never been reached in the operations against France and the Balkans. On November 22, Kleist had already arrived in the south at Rostov-na-Donu, the entrance to the Caucasus, but resulted in his fuel being depleted. Rundstedt wanted to leave the area because he thought it was uninhabitable, but Hitler prohibited him. On November 28, Rostov was retaken by the Soviets, and Rundstedt was relieved of command four days later.]]> 2022-11-28 06:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/yd8477/6532ssmm9rar9ref/wish/2399753677