Today I will talk to you about a hypothetical question, whether the German army in World War II really could not destroy the Soviet Union, and what fatal flaws existed in the German offensive.
On June 22, 1941, Germany, the land of tigers and wolves, tore up the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, gathered about 5.5 million people in treachery, and launched a fierce attack on the Soviet Union.
Because the German attack was too sudden, and the entire Soviet army at that time, in a state of attack, in preparation for the surprise of the European battlefield, sitting on the German and French and other domestic aftermath, did not construct sufficient defensive facilities.
Finally, germany was able to perak in the early stages of the war, and on September 30 alone, it approached the Soviet capital Moscow, and 1.93 million German troops sharpened their knives on the outskirts of Moscow, announcing to the Soviets that they were about to destroy your country.
Because of the speed of Germany's advance and the soviet defeat in World War I, many people around the world believed that Germany could destroy the Soviet Union and that a super-Germany across Eurasia was about to be born.
But the result was "gratifying", the Germans did not win, and the entire battle ended with a full-scale Soviet counteroffensive on December 5. At this point, the Soviet-German war situation began to move from a one-sided victory to a tug-of-war in which Germany and the Soviet Union won and lost each other.
As for why the Germans could not win the war and lost the possibility of destroying the Soviet Union, Xiao Yuan personally believed that the fatal flaw in German offensive tactics was that the Germans were proud of at that time and destroyed the tactical "blitzkrieg" of France and Poland.
Blitzkrieg pays attention to surprise, attack it unprepared, use speed to make the opponent unable to understand themselves, and they can often stab the opponent fiercely, this asymmetry can quickly disintegrate the opponent's will to resist.
In the successful cases of blitzkrieg, Germany's blitzkrieg against Poland and blitzkrieg against France did not kill all the soldiers of the other side, but broke into the opponent's defensive line and forced the other side to surrender in a surprise way.
However, the rapid breakthrough, even if it can catch the opponent by surprise, but also brings enough fatal sequelae, the symptom is simply, the logistics and the front-line combat troops are disconnected, the front line runs fast, it is mechanized power moving, the legs are the main logistics, there runs through the machine. Therefore, after the blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union, the German army was actually in short supply for a long time.
In this case, once the German front line attack was slightly blocked, it would soon be exhausted.
The Soviet Union's territory across Europe and Asia gave it sufficient strategic depth, which determined that it was capable of blocking the first wave of attacks. The vast territory of the Soviet Union, even if it did not block Germany, it would have to run for several months to run.
In the successful cases of Poland and France, the territory is much smaller than that of the Soviet Union, and often the German army can run through the whole territory in more than a month, as long as the Germans break through the first heavy defense line, the basic destruction of the country has been decided, and they have no way out.
Turning back to the Battle of Moscow, a large part of the reason why Germany lost was that the attack was blocked, the logistics could not keep up, causing the entire front-line German army to freeze and shiver in the snow, and even some people could not even hold their guns.
There was only one way left: to be captured in the Great Soviet Counteroffensive on 5 December and then imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp. However, it has also been said that the environment of the prisoner of war camp is not good, but it is relatively safe compared to the battlefield where bullets and shells are flying around.