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Revision 5 . . December 7, 2001 2:48 am by Taw [bbc failure]
Revision 4 . . December 7, 2001 2:40 am by Egern
Revision 3 . . December 7, 2001 2:23 am by H. Jonat [*some facts need to be incorporated]
Revision 2 . . December 7, 2001 2:15 am by Taw [unexpected treaty, "german" invasion of poland]
Revision 1 . . December 7, 2001 2:14 am by Taw [unexpected treaty]
  
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I think it needs to be pointed out that the Germans were bogged down by the weather at Moscow mainly because they first took a detour southward earlier in the campaign. Hitler ordered Army Group Center southward to conquer the Ukraine in a pincer operation instead of taking Moscow earlier in the campaign. I believe that several of Hitler's generals, including Guderian, argued against this. By the time they returned towards the push to Moscow, the muds and then the snows had stopped the advance. -- Egern
I think it needs to be pointed out that the Germans were bogged down by the weather at Moscow mainly because they first took a detour southward earlier in the campaign. Hitler ordered Army Group Center southward to conquer the Ukraine in a pincer operation instead of taking Moscow earlier in the campaign. I believe that several of Hitler's generals, including Guderian, argued against this. By the time they returned towards the push to Moscow, the muds and then the snows had stopped the advance. -- Egern

BBC article you gave (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/countdown/countdown_1.shtml)
contains at least one important mistake - in April 1939 Inagresion Pact between Germany and Poland was
cancelled by Germans, so no way could Hitler be "bound by an agreement he signed with Poland in January 1934". --Taw
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