(06-07-2012 10:06 AM)ConanX Wrote:  If anyone thinks the Germans had a chance I'd recommend they read Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian. Shows exactly how the stunning success of the Germans in France in '40 led to their leaderships overestimation of their ability in the summer of '41 against the Soviets. The disconnect between the fantasy in Berlin and the reality on the Eastern Front is unbelievble.

If you simply look at a map of Europe and the distance between Moscow and Warsaw, you know that Hitler and Napoleon were mad. But Stalingrad and Leningrad both still came close to falling. And the tank barriers are still there in Moscow near the airport showing just how close the German army came to central Moscow.

If Hitler had left the war up to his generals, the Germans probably would have won the war. But he meddled, gave conflicting orders, and generally made their lives miserable...