Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "Wehrmacht: Incompetent yet Successful?" video.

  1. If Japan had attacked the USSR would have been defeated in 1941, that did not happen because of internal Japanese politics, but was the prospect that terrified American strategists most. Sealion worked, as a deception operation that enabled a surprise attack on the USSR. In early 1941 Stalin upped delivery of raw materials to Germany tremendously--to enable the cancelled (Sept 1940) Sealion one might surmise. What he got was Barbarossa. Hitler and Field Marshal von Bock were in agreement about Moscow being a secondary objective, though for very different reasons. As Bock wrote in his diary: "I do not want to 'capture Moscow'. I want to destroy the enemy's army, and the bulk of that army is right in front of me". One thing is certain, had Bock's planned attack of August 17 on Moscow gone ahead, the Soviet army would have been defending the capital with the eroded forces available at that time and place rather than what was there 76 days later when Bock's attack actually started--five days before the muddy season bogged it down.
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