- Raptorx7
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"I will show you how a true Prussian officer fights!"
"And i will show you where the iron crosses grow..."
- "Cross of Iron"
I am glad i could teach you, i hope to teach WW2 one day!
It isnt sad at all infact. The American education system doesn't teach us anything about the Russians which is pathetic. I have just read many books on the subject. I recommend at least reading one book just so you know more than the average person!
Posted by: Tehnoobtube15
Posted by: Raptorx7
They didnt attack during the Winter, Operation Barbarossa commenced on June 22nd 1941. Infact German attacks coincided with the spring "thaw" as they called it. They never really launched attacks during the winter. The Russians were also reluctant to do it as well. ALSO the rasputa "torrential rain' was almost a bigger problem than the cold in the last few months of 1941, overflowing roads and bogging down German supplies, troops, and panzers.
Posted by: Tehnoobtube15
Posted by: Raptorx7
You guys have no idea what your talking about. In some cases human wave tactics were used early on but as they fought and learned they developed tactics.
Operation saturn and Uranus come to mind, the Russians allowed the Germans to become stuck in Stalingrad in grueling urban combat, what the Germans called "Ratenkrieg" or rat war.
Germans were trained for fighting over wide swaths of land and fast attacks not urban slow combat.
When the German 6th army was fighting at Stalingrad the Russians built up on there flanks with massive amounts of troops and armor and surrounded the 6th army cutting it off forever and effectively destroying it.
The Russians were not to be messed with and they deserve to be respected.
lol, Uranus.
Tell Germany not to attack Russia during Winter.
Is it sad I learned more in this thread about WW2 than school?