01-01-2014, 06:16 PM
you know I love some butchery......Stalingrad, always Stalingrad....it has a whole other meaning, even if strategically it was more important the victory in Moscow
options for Germany to have succeeded:
forget about Kiev and make Army Group Center go on a straight path till Moscow is overrun, thus making a significant blow to the morale
or
concentrate full power in the South, capture Ukraine and then head for Stalingrad, with full force, thus cutting off oil supplies from the Baku oil fileds in the Caucasus.
options for Germany to have succeeded:
forget about Kiev and make Army Group Center go on a straight path till Moscow is overrun, thus making a significant blow to the morale
or
concentrate full power in the South, capture Ukraine and then head for Stalingrad, with full force, thus cutting off oil supplies from the Baku oil fileds in the Caucasus.