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Thus you are denying that the Schwertepunkt of the offensive was in the north,with the 6 PzArmy,with as goal Antwerp ?
Some one with your lack of knowledge should not attack others

On 6 december,the morning temperature at Leningrad was minus 12.8C.Is there here some one claiming that the Germans could resist this temperature without winter clothing ? On 7 december,it was minus 20.6 Same question On 3 january 1942,it was (in Moscow) minus 35.9 Same question On 13 january (in Mo...

I also see that the knowledge of Lameck about the Ardennes is very limited :the goal of the Germans was to go to Liege and ultimately to Antwerp (Bastogne was irrelevant) :after a few days,Liege had to be captured,but the Gemans were stopped at StVith,and this,not Bastogne,caused the German failure .

I was certain that some one would parrot Göbbels(the German failure being caused by the winter) and the defeated German generals (blaming Hitler for the absence of winterclothing)

Again some one refusing to understand . 8) Where did I write that there never was minus 49 C?? But,the fact that at a certain date,it was that cold,does NOT mean that the winter was exceptionnally cold . And,if the winter was exceptionnally cold,how was it possible that the Germans survived such win...

Using Rendulic is of course going of topic ,hyjacking the thread:we are not discussing the effects of cold weather on the German weapons/trucks,but a)was the winter of 1941/1942 harsher than other Russian winters,and:how much b) what was the impact of this weather on the German soldiers :was it caus...

Refusing to understand (as I expected) :the last thing we could expect from Irving,that he would refute the using as excuse for the failure of Barbarosssa of the mythical winter of 1941/1942. Irving is saying that the 1941/1942 winter was an average Russian winter,and,knowing his opinions,for once ,...

I am not the only one:I am in the company of Fieldmarshall Milch,whose opinion was that the 1941/1942 winter in European Russia was an average one (given that the German propaganda invented the "harsh winter" as an excuse for the failure of Barbarossa,the opinion of Mich is reliable);this ...

It is very silly to say everything is very well documented,but not being able to give ONE exemple (of course,I did not expect anything else). It also is very silly to pontificate and to expect being believed .(unless you were the pope,and,even then 8) ) The winter was not that harsh and most soldier...

I used to slap parts on Chryslers on the assembly line with a guy named Karl Meyer who had a metal plate in his skull. He said he got it when he was with the Germany Army in Jan. 1942 on the front before Moscow. A mortar shell landed nearby and a clod of dirt that it dislodged struck him in the hel...

Some weak reasoning there, ljadw. It wasn't as if 100% of the soldiers were standing out in the snow 100% of the time. To claim that 96% of the troops received winter clothing because they weren't incapaciteted by frostbite is laughable, and flies in the face of known facts abut the supply of the t...

If the winter was that harsh as Dr Göbbels claimed,and if the Ostheer received no winterclothing,as all authors are parotting,no German soldier would have survived the winter of 1941/1942.Without winterclothing,no one could survive -30 C The truth is that the numbers of amputations were 0.5 % of th...

There were some 112000 cases of frostbite in the 4 wintermonths (almost 1000 a day)=4% of the strength of the Ostheer,of these,there were some 15000 amputations .And of these,there were an UNKNOWN number of dead. But,we have one sample : between 1 and 10 december 1941,there were 2185 frostbite cases...

If the winter was that harsh as Dr Göbbels claimed,and if the Ostheer received no winterclothing,as all authors are parotting,no German soldier would have survived the winter of 1941/1942.Without winterclothing,no one could survive -30 C The truth is that the numbers of amputations were 0.5 % of the...

Compared to total losses/total strength,the frostbite losses were marginal 2 possible explications 1)contrary to the general belief,the assumption that the 1941/1942 winter was the harshest in a century,is wrong 2) contrary to the general belief,the assumption that the Ostheer did not receive winter...