Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's failed invasion of Russia

Had the Germans launched the campaign when originally planned, they would have avoided the muddy autumn and the brutal winter. It's likely they would have reached Moscow.

Multiple delays; plus Hitler's constant meddling, changing strategy, ignoring his generals, and forbidding strategic retreats, led to their defeat.

There was another season that came before the Winter. Bezdorizhzhya means “roadlessness” in Ukrainian (it's Rasputitsa in Russian), and it refers to the mud season that hits Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia in the Fall. During this season, off-road or unpaved movement became very, very difficult, thus delaying the quick victory the Nazis had risked everything on.

Why not mention USA hypocrisy of supplying weapons on both Germany army and Soviet 😂
What hypocrisy is not been told that why Russians hate USA because USA miscalculated helped Germany to win against Soviet that why even after Germany lost a war, USA was ashamed to the shoes and they started to propagates that they were fighting along Russians 😂😂

I think the Germans proved you can't supply a 3M man attacking army with horses in winter over long distances. And in a nut shell, that's why Barbarossa failed.

He lost because the Americans intervened

He failed to learn one simple lesson
Don't invade Russia

siberian tigers should get the credit , instead of the winter

One of Hitler's biggest mistakes, is that when planning Barbarossa he failed to do a demographic check on the USSR.
If he' d done so, he would understand that the Russians could always field more and more men.

The actual invasion Barbarossa,did not fail,if it had,the Germans would have been totally thrust out of the Soviet Union in 1941.

Theses Siberian troops had been held in reserve in the east,in case Japan attacked Russia.Once Stalin saw they were not,he redeployed them in Moscow’s defense.Hitler’s meddling cost him Moscow.but as I said Barbarossa the invasion itself was not a failure.The Germans had conquered a vast area of Soviet territory.

This of course drove Guderian mad,because Moscow proper was only 16 miles away.The Germans probably would have succeeded in capturing the Russian capital.But Hitler took away Guderian’s Panzers and redeployed them north and south.The siege of Leningrad was a mammoth mistake.Hitler was successful in Ukrain.And then Hitler decided to once again make Moscow the main objective.But it was to late,Stalin had had time to prepare defenses and bring in Siberian troops,these special winter warriors were excellent marksmen because they were hunters.They could handle temperatures even Russians could not handle.

I doubt taking Moscow would have equaled victory. The resistance was too strong & supply lies far too thin

the axis powers had about 5 million troops in the eastern front in total, the 3,5 million was the wehrmacht alone without allies during the first year of barbarossa but they started to reinforce after the defeat at moscow.

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Hitlers nephew was there

Had germany regrouped outside of moscow and set up defenses. The soviets wouod have been defeated

I don’t know if I’d call it will to fight as Stalin held soldier’s families hostage and threatened to shoot them if the soldiers didn’t fight.

That edit ww2 1945

People forget that the harsh winter was painful for both side of the war and did not buff the Soviet Union. It is a strategical mistake of the Nazi Germany not being able to fully prepare for the winter campaign

it failed because stalin just threw russian body after russian body into battle, not caring how many of them got killed

— Operation Barbarossa should’ve started a month earlier but Hitler had to bail out his inept ally Italy in the Balkans.
— They should’ve captured Moscow first before going to Stalingrad and the oil fields in Baku.
— Logistics was a nightmare and compounded by General Winter.

Hitler failed because he didn't listen in history class. Never invade Russia in the winter.

Capturing Moscow, even though it might have given the German leadership the illusion of success, would have been completely immaterial to the Russians. They had a vast country in which to retreat, to the extent that the Wehrmacht could never have covered the terrain or policed it after "conquering" it. In addition they had time on their side. Hitler made a fatal mistake fighting Russia. Thank goodness he did.

Short answer: underestimate enemy power, logistics issues

No air superiority, stalled in winter, endless Soviet people defending, and the Russian war production ramped up with help from US lend lease. Doomed from the start.

Many germans who strongly believed in Hitler's decision to invade Russia, disheartened at the moment they just witnessed the criminal elimination of jews and civilians who normally are left apart from the battle...
I've read this declaration by soldiers and officers again and again, as I read different books about "Barbarossa"... I'm starting to think that at the end, this fact was decisive...

Hitler could have defeated the Soviet Union if;
A.) he had those 6 million Jews he exterminated with the Nazis .
B.) did not underestimate communist Soviet Union Russian resolve .
C.) attacked in Spring or Summer.
What is of actual interest is how close Hitler and the axis powers actually got to victory !

I blame thank Mussolini for being so pig headed in the Balkans.

one thing I've heard somewhere else is that due to having to bail out Italy in Greece, they had to delay Barbarossa for one or two months. Keeps me wondering what if they had those two extra months of good weather.

Russia cheated.

So basically they could have won had they just charged straight for Moscow with all 3 army groups

If you think about the logic behind “kicking the door down, the whole rotten edifice would crumble down” is ridiculous. Basically it was saying, communism was so repressive no citizen would support this system (and it was indeed) but Reich’s plan for these so called “Untermensch” was complete extermination.

So it was saying Slav would accept extermination without putting up a fight?

Some mental gymnastics for these Nazis.

Lmao, i suppose Russia should always reserve a special force whom are capable of fighting in the winter, since winter seems to be their best friend most of the time.

Hitler/ the Nazis overly relied on racial/ ideological beliefs over military intelligence. Barbarossa was not the first German military operation to flounder because of this nor was it the last.

What is over looked is Richard Sorge a Soviet Spy in the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo. He reported the Japanese had their eye's else where. That released 40 ski divisions in theeast to fight against the Germans.

Funny to name an operation on another humiliated German king who drowned on the way to his mission.

Germany lost the war when Hitler took command of the armed forces.

They didn't have a atomic bomb

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You completely ignored the massive aid the Soviet Union received from the USA. Without that they would have been defeated rather quickly.

Germany had no long range bomber to knock out Soviet munitions production east of Moscow

Great explanation. A war of production Germany could not match

The Germans should have taken the soviet union. Stalin was worse than hitler

25 million dead in Russia.

Hitler soldiers like a gang to invide every country

But saved western europe from communist on post war years

The operation was doomed from the begining. The Germans did not have the resources or the manpower to conquer Russia!