When the Panzer Blitz Stalled at Moscow: Why Operation Typhoon Failed

If it wasn't for Religion they would have never taken on Soviet Russian might

The Russians are like your best party buddy that you can't trust when the hard alcohol starts kicking in. Everyone is getting punched. 😂

Capturing Moscow wouldn't gave Germans strategic victory. It was fully evacuated. Situation would be the same as during Napoleonic wars.

Prior to the Battle of Moscow, Army Group South and the Battle of Kyiv is one of many reasons as to why Operation Typhoon failed.

Germany sucked at logistics. They put put their best military minds in the front line forces. Wars are won by logistics, especially WW2. Nobody did that better than the US. Also, had Germany and Japan cooperated, Japan could have tied down those experienced Russian divisions in the east.

All these people who have been fed western propaganda are making every excuse for the Germans without acknowledging the enormous resilience and sacrifice of the Red Army.

Thank you, great topic and fine choices of films! Intro should be under 1 minute with clear focused statement of the finding to be argued. Also could use more maps to show dynamics of forces. This work makes us more astonished that with Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk, Mother Russia broke Nazi Germany's back in a struggle we can hardly imagine.

I honestly dont understand why we “the US” were supplying the USSR with weapons before the US was even in the war. We should of been fighting with the germans against the soviets

Verrat der - Roten kapelle. Doppelspion Japan/ Gehlen war moskau mann. Angriff gegen Usa- nicht landung bei Wladivostok ! 20 Div Sibirische Truppen wurden Frei. Drum Stalins verbleib. Erwusste genaues. Wie Normandie - sabotage Speidel ( rückverlegung gegen Rommel anweisung ! ) War später Nato südwest. Ehre allen, die wie ihre befohlenen standhielten - Ehret Schörner gegen kommihetze.

This subject is covered in Hitler's Alleged Blunders. The General staff stalled when Hitler ordered the attack. Treason within !

How the hell did they think they'd CONQUER Mother Russia ? absolute Madness ! oh.....T34.

Excellent documentary on this historic battle.

Many of the panzer’s were worn out by the change in direction to Kiev. And loses were not being replaced.

The uncomfortable truth is that mustache man had the right approach from the beginning and he should’ve assumed command from the start of Barbarossa. For context, he wanted to push south and get to the oil fields. It likely wouldn’t change the end result, but it would’ve given them a better chance given that poor logistics and fuel deficiencies were their ultimate downfall. Of course after the conflict the generals tried to blame every bad decision on mustache man in their memoirs to save their own reputations. Many fail to recognize this

historicity abandoned, nicely narrated isn't accurate. Where is the directive for Guderian to rescue AG south, sad !

47 in div, 10K per that is a whole lot of horses and men walking around around, some 470k men and 25k animals? crazy man

Generalissimo winter defeated the German army

Had the Germans taken Moscow they would have the railroad hub of Russia in their hands. Game over.

Very badly worded, who sub human ?

Logistics killed the german.

Logistics rules all. If you don't take care of the supplies I don't care how good you are you will fail.

Answer is simple , the mustached wierdo thought the Moscow was all bit taken and deverted resources south . Best General the Allied forces had was the Mustached weirdo .

Germany never expected to have to fight WWII, they thought the conflict with Poland would be a localized conflict. Then they expected an unavoidable war with the aggressive USSR 1-1 that they could theoretically win despite being greatly outnumbered.
The declaration of war by the UK & France with the tacit help of the USA always meant Germany being massively outgunned had to fight a perfect fight plus hope for luck. It was only in 1943 that Germany switched production to full war effort as they had to adjust to reality.

It's a story of quality vs. quantity. THAT is why Germany lost the battle & the war.

This video is a bit unclear by saying Germany had a numerical advantage at the beginning of the battle as it was only a localized advantage & by looking at Soviet loses of well over a million vs. about 100,000 from the Germans you can see the Soviets constantly added reinforcements as by the end of the battle the Soviets had a greater size force.

But against all odds, at great sacrifice, Germany at least saved Western Europe from falling under the Soviet boot. Never forget that.

At the beginning, Germany had 70 million people. Soviets, 170 million. Do the math...

General Winter told the tale. Without that factor the Wehrmacht would have been unstoppable. 😮

Hitler and Hirohito were stupid in declaring war on Russia and the USA in 41

Field Marshall Konstantin Rokossovski was a master tactician of blitz and schwerpunkt tactics. Although he was initialy purged by Stalin in the 30s for this very reason (back then blitz was considered heresy in USSR), there was almost no hesitation in bringing him back and reinstalling him. And he really made a difference. It was at Jukov's orders his comeback.

Germans took 4 millions pows in first 6 months

Well narrated. Thanks

Russia is too big for foot soldiers- Hitler's stupid mistake. Two thirds of his artillery hauled by horses- nearly going back to Napoleon's campaign. Napoleon lost a third of his army to the heat and disease before even his first battle with the Russians,. Then he described them as the toughest people he ever met.

our ancestors defeated the United Europe under the leadership of the Nazis. Europe will never forgive us for this.

Some people say Mussolini stuped

Because of Mussolini,s advance in Greece the Wehrmacht lost six weeks that means fighting in a terrible weather - 53-

Wermacht was designed to fight with great power, but on limited area and time. You can say that it was army to fight countries like france, 300-500km ranges, and 30, 60 or 90 days of operation. Germans only chance was to crush red army at the border. Problem was thatcon the border was only a part of red army. Germany had to take soviet industry to stop them from recreating lost fighting force. USSR was moving factoris to the east by railways. And there was red army. Germans had better organisation and communication. Germans had radios on tanks as a standard. Soviets mostly only in commander tank. But there was like 3,500 german tanks, and 20,000 soviet tanks. In december Wermacht was on gates of Moscow. But this Wermacht was a shadow of summer time army. There was no tanks in panzer divisions, no gas in trucks, no railways to transport, that even had no winter clothes because all the logistic was struggle to get ammunition to front. So geman's army supply was for example in Warsaw and stuck there.

It failed because the German army in Russia ran out of manpower (due to losses), overextended supply lines and the difficult Russian winter arrived.

hitler was acting like a good Soviet General … but the Red Army ultimately won WW2 .

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Western media... Using history to a different way. Stupid propaganda!

Russians. Russians are what stopped them. Motherfucking Georgie Zhukov! Chuck Norris checks under his bed for Zhukov.

Idk if anyone can answer this hypothetical..if Germany managed to get into Moscow would Russian troops surround Moscow as.they did with Stalingrad. I've wondered this for years

Every armchair WW2 Eastern Front Historian knows Typhoon failed cuz instead of going straight for Moscow, The Fuhrer instead decided to diversify his forces to get Baku oil!

This delayed the attack on Moscow giving Zukov plenty of time to defend Moscow and General Winter and General Mud came to Moscow's defence as well

Well done. Subscribed. Thank you.

Hitler declared war on America two months after this battle was taking place. Big mistake.

At one point the Germans were losing a 1000 horses a day, through sickness, weather, exhaustion and Soviet fire!

Before the war started German logistics experts predicted the advance would collapse almost exactly where it did, regardless of Russian opposition.

a bear will always beat a leopard, same as what we see now with Nazis attacking thru Ukraine.