Operation Barbarossa : Transport vehicles and logistics

[Mumm-Ra]

another good supposed from the WW2 YouTube channel. @PanzerKiel, I believe, it’s slowing getting to the part you’re interested in most.

 

[Zulfiqar]

There was a great book on the eastern front.

Its title is something like "Hitler's war on Russia" by Paul carell IIRC.

I took it from my father's collection and read half of it as a teen 16 yrs ago. I stopped reading it when the tide began to turn for the German military.

First half was quite awesome read.

Stalin had intelligence from multiple resources w.r.t an invasion but he discounted that information due to paranoia.

Ironically Soviets are partially responsible for the rise of the wehrmacht as they gave the Germans the necessary help in form of utilizing Soviet territory for their own benefit when Germany was not allowed to improve its military capability inside their own country during the 20s/30s.

 

[Mumm-Ra]

There was a great book on the eastern front.

Its title is something like "Hitler's war on Russia" by Paul carell IIRC.

I took it from my father's collection and read half of it as a teen 16 yrs ago. I stopped reading it when the tide began to turn for the German military.

First half was quite awesome read.

Stalin had intelligence from multiple resources w.r.t an invasion but he discounted that information due to paranoia.

Ironically Soviets are partially responsible for the rise of the wehrmacht as they gave the Germans the necessary help in form of utilizing Soviet territory for their own benefit when Germany was not allowed to improve its military capability inside their own country during the 20s/30s.

I also read the same book. It was a wonderful read

 

[Imran Khan]

i love captain barbarosa of carrabian pirates

 

[Tom_Cruise]

Stalin's refusal to believe his intelligence of the German build up is still crazy to understand to this day. He was so overwhelmed by Hitler's persona, almost like thinking in a bubble.

The Germans (or morelike Hitler) were overconfident after routing western Europe not realising Russia didn't have the same built up transport network, making logistics extremely difficult. And considering the vastness of Russia they became bogged down in the muddy countryside environment.

For anyone interested watch the 6-part series Apocalypse: The Second World War. It's easily the best documentary on WW2.

Barbarossa is in episode 3.

 

[PanzerKiel]

There was a great book on the eastern front.

Its title is something like "Hitler's war on Russia" by Paul carell IIRC.

I took it from my father's collection and read half of it as a teen 16 yrs ago. I stopped reading it when the tide began to turn for the German military.

First half was quite awesome read.

Stalin had intelligence from multiple resources w.r.t an invasion but he discounted that information due to paranoia.

Ironically Soviets are partially responsible for the rise of the wehrmacht as they gave the Germans the necessary help in form of utilizing Soviet territory for their own benefit when Germany was not allowed to improve its military capability inside their own country during the 20s/30s.

I also read it, both volumes, from my father's collection.

 

[Nein]

Stalin's refusal to believe his intelligence of the German build up is still crazy to understand to this day. He was so overwhelmed by Hitler's persona, almost like thinking in a bubble.

The Germans (or morelike Hitler) were overconfident after routing western Europe not realising Russia didn't have the same built up transport network, making logistics extremely difficult. And considering the vastness of Russia they became bogged down in the muddy countryside environment.

For anyone interested watch the 6-part series Apocalypse: The Second World War. It's easily the best documentary on WW2.

Barbarossa is in episode 3.

Germans also underestimated the Russian industrial base.

Germans screwed up pretty badly in Russia.

 

[vostok]

Stalin's refusal to believe his intelligence of the German build up is still crazy to understand to this day. He was so overwhelmed by Hitler's persona, almost like thinking in a bubble.

The Germans (or morelike Hitler) were overconfident after routing western Europe not realising Russia didn't have the same built up transport network, making logistics extremely difficult. And considering the vastness of Russia they became bogged down in the muddy countryside environment.

For anyone interested watch the 6-part series Apocalypse: The Second World War. It's easily the best documentary on WW2.

Barbarossa is in episode 3.

Actually Stalin began to build infrastructure for removing industrial plants to Urals and Siberia right after 1939 beginning of the WW2 - only due to this fact USSR saved most of its industrial capacity though lost the lands where half of its population lived, and where all this industry was initially placed.
Everyone in USSR knew the war with Germans will start but, as it often happens, despite all the preparations Red Army was not ready for the blitzkrieg war. Germans beat us in operative planning on the first stage of war.

 

[zhxy]

The Soviet Union was much stronger than Germany. They have a larger population, wider territory, better industrial systems. They received support from the US and UK. Finally, the harsh winter weather helped the Soviet Union
The Germans lost to the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war

 

[Zulfiqar]

I also read it, both volumes, from my father's collection.

Yes, I later found out that there is a second book as well.

One day I will read both again if I get time.

 

[Tom_Cruise]

Actually Stalin began to build infrastructure for removing industrial plants to Urals and Siberia right after 1939 beginning of the WW2 - only due to this fact USSR saved most of its industrial capacity though lost the lands where half of its population lived, and where all this industry was initially placed.
Everyone in USSR knew the war with Germans will start but, as it often happens, despite all the preparations Red Army was not ready for the blitzkrieg war. Germans beat us in operative planning on the first stage of war.

Moving the industrial base to the Urals was a strategic masterpiece. Completely out of the range of Germans the 24/7 production of the factories gave the Soviets and endless supply of materials. Germany simply couldn't compete once its own industrial base started to get hit.