Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "[Barbarossa] Just a Stupid Idea or not? An Analysis" video.

  1. The Tiger tanks were not available in Dec 1941. They came when Germany trying to hang on.
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  2. The USSR was a disaster in WW2. They should have stopped the German advance quickly and pushed them back to Germany. The USSR had twice as many tanks as the Germans and countless more men. The Soviets were a shambles, with the Germans capturing millions of Soviet men.
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  3. +Mr SmersH I am saying how bad the Red Army was.
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  4. "both sides were planning on attacking each other." The Soviets had no plans to attack Germany. Can you give us a reference?
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  5. +Pennywise Marhakesh The tactic I think you think the Germans discovered was what the west called Blitzkrieg. First used by the British at Amiens in 1918. Prof Adam Tooze, Wages of Destruction Page 380 "because it involved such a concentrated use of force, Manstein's plan was a __one-shot affair._ If the initial assault had failed, and it could have failed in many ways, the Wehrmacht as an offensive force would have been spent. The gamble paid off. But contrary to appearances, the Germans had not discovered a patent recipe for military miracles. The overwhelming success of May 1940, resulting in the defeat of a major European military power in a matter of weeks, _was not a repeatable outcome." The Germans tried it on the USSR and it failed, despite having superb advantages, of surprise, better organisation and battle proven forces.
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  6. I think you never knew of Khalkhin Gol when doing this. ;)
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  7. Such confusion.
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  8. You should have read my posts. From one of them... The coming air war: Roosevelt promised 50,000 planes per year production in May 1940, with British production on top, of which a substantial amount would be in the RAF. Germany could not compete with the level of aircraft at the UKs disposal. Whether the planes had US and UK pilots or just UK pilots they were coming Germany's way. And the only way they could really get at each other was by air. Germany feared mass bombing, which came - the bomber in the late 1930s was perceived as a war winning weapon. The Germans knew the lead time for aircraft was 18 months from order to delivery. That meant in late 1941/early 1942, these planes would be starting to come into service in great numbers. Germany needed the resources of the east to compete. If the population was too big they would eliminate the population - the precedence was the American move to the west expanding the USA, taking lands from the natives population and Mexican and eliminating the population.
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