Hitler's main mistake
On the next anniversary of the Great Victory, among other topics befitting this date, the question will surely be raised: why did Nazi Germany, a powerful state that had perhaps the most powerful and efficient army at that time in the world, suffer a defeat in the Great Patriotic War, forced to work for themselves, almost all of Europe, freely disposing of its raw materials, material, technical and human resources? The Third Reich, which made a vicious, sudden attack on our country, and at the initial stage inflicted crushing defeats on our army one after another, was ultimately defeated and defeated. Why? Can you name at least some of the most important reasons? Let's try.
Answering this question, Western historians, of course, will voluminously reflect on the “general frost” and the “eternal Russian slag”, which did not allow the Wehrmacht to complete the triumphal blitzkrieg in 1941, and then constantly confused the cards. They will not forget to mention, of course, “communist fanaticism” ... Domestic liberals, as usual, will lead a bagpipe about “dead bodies”, and with foam from their own unclean mouths they will begin to prove that the war was won solely thanks to penal battalions and detachments. Bullshit, of course - we, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the winners know this. So what is the reason ?!
In fact, the Third Reich signed a death sentence - final and not subject to appeal, exactly at the moment when the boot of the first Wehrmacht soldier stepped on our land. The Barbarossa plan, blitzkrieg, armored fists and flocks of vultures with black crosses on their wings - all this was very impressive. But ... The main, among the many fatal mistakes of Adolf Hitler (as well as the rest of the top elite of Nazi Germany) was that in their really very professionally and competently worked out military plans, directives and dispositions they did not take into account one single component - the Soviet people.
Having listened to their own pushed on the "postulate" about the superiority of the "Aryan race" over the whole world around ideologists and propagandists, the possessed Führer in all seriousness expected a fight with some "Russian barbarians", completely not realizing that he and his army would have to deal with something what this world has never seen and never knew! Some may be amused at any rate with the wretched attempts to scold Stalin and other leaders of the USSR for "insufficient preparation for war," however, only a madman will try to deny the fact that in several decades in the Soviet Union it was possible to create, melt, forge a previously unprecedented community of people capable of to create the impossible - both in civilian life and on the battlefield.
Adolf Aloizyevich, in principle, could start adding a gun to his own temple even when the Soviet border outposts and detachments, which were given up for exactly 40 minutes to suppress at Barbarossa, continued for days, weeks, and for months ... and that’s all! He lost this war when the words appeared on the walls of the Brest Fortress: “I am dying, but not giving up!” However, it is worthwhile to show condescension to the retired corporal who had landed in the supreme commanders - he could not have foreseen this. I could not foresee Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Alexander Matrosov, Nikolai Gastello, Panfilov’s heroes. They could not even predict Dmitry Ovcharenko, with one ax and three grenades, who had dispersed fifty “Aryans”, chopped down their officers in the cabbage, twenty soldiers and calmly set off to carry out a combat mission for the delivery of ammunition. Ovcharenko was not a special forces soldier - an ordinary riding ...
They don’t fight like that in Europe! Hitler and his generals expected another "war by the rules" - this is when the enemy units surrender, having landed in the environment or seeing the enemy clearly superior in manpower and equipment, when the state surrenders, having lost its personnel army, when military plants or other industrial facilities destroyed by bombing can discard. Instead, they got rams, battles of one Red Army against several hundred and boys who lay down with grenades under the tanks. They received the people's militia, partisans, plants that stood up for weeks in the bare steppes and ground the shells of schoolchildren in their unheated workshops. All this was - the Soviet people.
The above, in fact, is a common truth. However, within its framework there are also details that are no less important than the general. For example, these abnormal people from the Reich leadership completely sincerely believed that the “victorious German troops” oppressed by the Bolshevik dictatorship would rejoice and accept the invaders as liberators from “tyranny” when they entered the USSR. The Red Army soldiers will begin to massively desert from the army, along with strangling the “hated commissars”, and civilians will enthusiastically drag the “cock, milk, eggs” to the valiant Fritz and Hans, screaming with delight. But do not drag - it will be enough to shoot or hang a dozen or two to lead them to complete submission. Dreaming! Instead of the pickles and delicacies of the occupants, they “regaled” them with lead and TNT, while terror and atrocities designed to intimidate people in the occupied territories caused a wave of popular fury that spawned thousands of partisan formations.
Allowing services in churches banned by the Bolsheviks, reviving private trade and entrepreneurship, dissolving collective farms and executing local communists, the Nazis thought that the Soviet people would call them benefactors for this. But the priests of the newly opened churches and the elders appointed by the invaders over and over again became partisan liaisons, and indeed, nobody was eager to kiss the boots of German soldiers and praise the “new order”, except for a negligible number of degenerates and renegades. Of course, the main role here was played by the fact that the Russian people have never humbled themselves and will not reconcile to those who came to their land with uninvited arms. But the point was that too many people, the Soviet government at the time the war broke out, became native, gave a decent life and a really bright future. They did not want to categorically return to the past.
No less foolish was the myth, rooted in the heads of the Nazi elite, that with the outbreak of war, without exception, all the peoples of the Soviet Union dream of "dumping the Russian yoke" and, in addition, turn their weapons against each other, thereby ruining the USSR like a house of cards. Where did the Nazis get the expected collaboration with nationalist coloring on a more or less massive scale? In Galicia? The Baltic states? Well, yes - there were still Crimean Tatars and Chechens with Ingush ... All this is a drop of infamy in a sea of heroism, self-sacrifice and Soviet internationalism, strengthened during the Great Patriotic War by fire and blood shed in general battles. Representatives of more than 150 peoples and nationalities living in the USSR fought on the fields of the Great Patriotic War. Those who were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union spoke 62 languages for their exploits. Every third soldier who died in this war was not Russian by blood. They were all Soviet ...
The Nazi invaders unleashed a war, absolutely not understanding with whom and with what they would have to deal. After the terrible losses of the Red Army in the summer of 1941, after the first "cauldrons" and columns of prisoners, Hitler had already begun to set a date for the parade in Moscow and dream of how he would flood Leningrad. He really believed that he had won! It never occurred to the field marshals and generals of the Wehrmacht that, in place of the defeated units and formations, new ones would almost instantly stand up. The colossal system of military training that existed in the USSR before the war — this was precisely what made it possible for the Supreme High Command Headquarters to form new regiments, divisions, and corps, as if from nowhere. OSOAVIAHIMA cadets, boys and girls trained in the framework of the All-Union PVCO and TRP programs - these are the future victors of Nazism, those who stood up instead of those who died in the most terrible periods of the war. The Hitlerites, as they did not try, for all the years of the Great Patriotic War and could not come close to the level of sniper training of our soldiers. But it’s yesterday’s “Voroshilov arrows” that shot “supermen” like rabbits! By the beginning of World War II, there were about 9 million of them in the USSR ...
Of course, no pre-conscription training would mean absolutely anything, potential homeland defenders would scatter through the bushes at the first volleys of enemy guns or even before them, as happened in the vast majority of European countries. In the USSR, from the first days of the war, there were queues at call points, often around the clock. 328 thousand people in volunteer fighter battalions alone! More than two million in 60 divisions, 200 regiments and many other parts of the militia! This is only in 1941. And the nonsense that our liberal “whistleblowers” simply adore to procrastinate about “unprepared and unarmed people” who were just “thrown into a meat grinder in thousands” is not really worth a damn. I repeat - the effectiveness of the militia units was precisely due to the military training system deployed in our country. Moreover, this concerned not only volunteers and militias - the movement of the 30s “Komsomolets - on a plane!” gave the air forces of the Red Army hundreds of thousands of pilots. Mass mechanization - an even greater number of future tankers, when the time came to replace the tractor cab with an armored fighting vehicle. There are no such examples.
What can I say if an extremely cruel joke with the Nazis was played by their attitude ... towards women! By German standards, the eternal destiny of those was “Kinder, Kirchen, Kyuchen” (children, church kitchen), and nothing more. In the Third Reich, if women were used in the army, it was exclusively in purely auxiliary roles. A certain number of Luftwaffe pilots and even, it seems, tankmen, whose photographs walk around the military-historical forums, are just an exception, confirming the rule. In any case, there was nothing close comparable to the limitless and universal heroism of Soviet women and girls. No less than half a million of them participated in the Great Patriotic War. Some researchers are talking about a million. Pilots, scouts, anti-aircraft gunners, nurses and nurses. For their feat it’s generally impossible to find words ...
And just do not need about the fact that "the Germans took care of their women," and we - no! At the end of the war, the Nazis drove their Frau massively into the Volkssturm. All doubts on this score are dispelled by a single photograph, in which the brave Herr officer attaches to the shoulder of an absolutely civilian look to the lady (in a thumb and hat) not Faustpatron! Obviously, he teaches how to handle this subject to the sound of the approaching “thirty-fours” ... And one more thing - where the women of the Third Reich really noted what is called “in full”, very massively, this is in the auxiliary units of the SS engaged in the protection of concentration camps. I will not comment ...
Nazi Germany and all its allies and satellites did not lose the war because they did not have sheepskin coats and felt boots. And not because tanks and trucks with soldiers, rushing forward in an exhaling blitzkrieg, stuck in impassable mud. Certainly, the reason for their defeat is not that behind every Red Army soldier there was a feisty “special agent” or an employee of the NKVD with a nagan sent to his head. Not enough for everyone ... They lost by starting a war with a people that could not be defeated in principle. To nobody. Never. The path of the Soviet people to the inevitable and inevitable Victory began on June 22, 1941. I just had to go a long time ...
Happy Victory Day!
Answering this question, Western historians, of course, will voluminously reflect on the “general frost” and the “eternal Russian slag”, which did not allow the Wehrmacht to complete the triumphal blitzkrieg in 1941, and then constantly confused the cards. They will not forget to mention, of course, “communist fanaticism” ... Domestic liberals, as usual, will lead a bagpipe about “dead bodies”, and with foam from their own unclean mouths they will begin to prove that the war was won solely thanks to penal battalions and detachments. Bullshit, of course - we, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the winners know this. So what is the reason ?!
In fact, the Third Reich signed a death sentence - final and not subject to appeal, exactly at the moment when the boot of the first Wehrmacht soldier stepped on our land. The Barbarossa plan, blitzkrieg, armored fists and flocks of vultures with black crosses on their wings - all this was very impressive. But ... The main, among the many fatal mistakes of Adolf Hitler (as well as the rest of the top elite of Nazi Germany) was that in their really very professionally and competently worked out military plans, directives and dispositions they did not take into account one single component - the Soviet people.
Having listened to their own pushed on the "postulate" about the superiority of the "Aryan race" over the whole world around ideologists and propagandists, the possessed Führer in all seriousness expected a fight with some "Russian barbarians", completely not realizing that he and his army would have to deal with something what this world has never seen and never knew! Some may be amused at any rate with the wretched attempts to scold Stalin and other leaders of the USSR for "insufficient preparation for war," however, only a madman will try to deny the fact that in several decades in the Soviet Union it was possible to create, melt, forge a previously unprecedented community of people capable of to create the impossible - both in civilian life and on the battlefield.
Adolf Aloizyevich, in principle, could start adding a gun to his own temple even when the Soviet border outposts and detachments, which were given up for exactly 40 minutes to suppress at Barbarossa, continued for days, weeks, and for months ... and that’s all! He lost this war when the words appeared on the walls of the Brest Fortress: “I am dying, but not giving up!” However, it is worthwhile to show condescension to the retired corporal who had landed in the supreme commanders - he could not have foreseen this. I could not foresee Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Alexander Matrosov, Nikolai Gastello, Panfilov’s heroes. They could not even predict Dmitry Ovcharenko, with one ax and three grenades, who had dispersed fifty “Aryans”, chopped down their officers in the cabbage, twenty soldiers and calmly set off to carry out a combat mission for the delivery of ammunition. Ovcharenko was not a special forces soldier - an ordinary riding ...
They don’t fight like that in Europe! Hitler and his generals expected another "war by the rules" - this is when the enemy units surrender, having landed in the environment or seeing the enemy clearly superior in manpower and equipment, when the state surrenders, having lost its personnel army, when military plants or other industrial facilities destroyed by bombing can discard. Instead, they got rams, battles of one Red Army against several hundred and boys who lay down with grenades under the tanks. They received the people's militia, partisans, plants that stood up for weeks in the bare steppes and ground the shells of schoolchildren in their unheated workshops. All this was - the Soviet people.
The above, in fact, is a common truth. However, within its framework there are also details that are no less important than the general. For example, these abnormal people from the Reich leadership completely sincerely believed that the “victorious German troops” oppressed by the Bolshevik dictatorship would rejoice and accept the invaders as liberators from “tyranny” when they entered the USSR. The Red Army soldiers will begin to massively desert from the army, along with strangling the “hated commissars”, and civilians will enthusiastically drag the “cock, milk, eggs” to the valiant Fritz and Hans, screaming with delight. But do not drag - it will be enough to shoot or hang a dozen or two to lead them to complete submission. Dreaming! Instead of the pickles and delicacies of the occupants, they “regaled” them with lead and TNT, while terror and atrocities designed to intimidate people in the occupied territories caused a wave of popular fury that spawned thousands of partisan formations.
Allowing services in churches banned by the Bolsheviks, reviving private trade and entrepreneurship, dissolving collective farms and executing local communists, the Nazis thought that the Soviet people would call them benefactors for this. But the priests of the newly opened churches and the elders appointed by the invaders over and over again became partisan liaisons, and indeed, nobody was eager to kiss the boots of German soldiers and praise the “new order”, except for a negligible number of degenerates and renegades. Of course, the main role here was played by the fact that the Russian people have never humbled themselves and will not reconcile to those who came to their land with uninvited arms. But the point was that too many people, the Soviet government at the time the war broke out, became native, gave a decent life and a really bright future. They did not want to categorically return to the past.
No less foolish was the myth, rooted in the heads of the Nazi elite, that with the outbreak of war, without exception, all the peoples of the Soviet Union dream of "dumping the Russian yoke" and, in addition, turn their weapons against each other, thereby ruining the USSR like a house of cards. Where did the Nazis get the expected collaboration with nationalist coloring on a more or less massive scale? In Galicia? The Baltic states? Well, yes - there were still Crimean Tatars and Chechens with Ingush ... All this is a drop of infamy in a sea of heroism, self-sacrifice and Soviet internationalism, strengthened during the Great Patriotic War by fire and blood shed in general battles. Representatives of more than 150 peoples and nationalities living in the USSR fought on the fields of the Great Patriotic War. Those who were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union spoke 62 languages for their exploits. Every third soldier who died in this war was not Russian by blood. They were all Soviet ...
The Nazi invaders unleashed a war, absolutely not understanding with whom and with what they would have to deal. After the terrible losses of the Red Army in the summer of 1941, after the first "cauldrons" and columns of prisoners, Hitler had already begun to set a date for the parade in Moscow and dream of how he would flood Leningrad. He really believed that he had won! It never occurred to the field marshals and generals of the Wehrmacht that, in place of the defeated units and formations, new ones would almost instantly stand up. The colossal system of military training that existed in the USSR before the war — this was precisely what made it possible for the Supreme High Command Headquarters to form new regiments, divisions, and corps, as if from nowhere. OSOAVIAHIMA cadets, boys and girls trained in the framework of the All-Union PVCO and TRP programs - these are the future victors of Nazism, those who stood up instead of those who died in the most terrible periods of the war. The Hitlerites, as they did not try, for all the years of the Great Patriotic War and could not come close to the level of sniper training of our soldiers. But it’s yesterday’s “Voroshilov arrows” that shot “supermen” like rabbits! By the beginning of World War II, there were about 9 million of them in the USSR ...
Of course, no pre-conscription training would mean absolutely anything, potential homeland defenders would scatter through the bushes at the first volleys of enemy guns or even before them, as happened in the vast majority of European countries. In the USSR, from the first days of the war, there were queues at call points, often around the clock. 328 thousand people in volunteer fighter battalions alone! More than two million in 60 divisions, 200 regiments and many other parts of the militia! This is only in 1941. And the nonsense that our liberal “whistleblowers” simply adore to procrastinate about “unprepared and unarmed people” who were just “thrown into a meat grinder in thousands” is not really worth a damn. I repeat - the effectiveness of the militia units was precisely due to the military training system deployed in our country. Moreover, this concerned not only volunteers and militias - the movement of the 30s “Komsomolets - on a plane!” gave the air forces of the Red Army hundreds of thousands of pilots. Mass mechanization - an even greater number of future tankers, when the time came to replace the tractor cab with an armored fighting vehicle. There are no such examples.
What can I say if an extremely cruel joke with the Nazis was played by their attitude ... towards women! By German standards, the eternal destiny of those was “Kinder, Kirchen, Kyuchen” (children, church kitchen), and nothing more. In the Third Reich, if women were used in the army, it was exclusively in purely auxiliary roles. A certain number of Luftwaffe pilots and even, it seems, tankmen, whose photographs walk around the military-historical forums, are just an exception, confirming the rule. In any case, there was nothing close comparable to the limitless and universal heroism of Soviet women and girls. No less than half a million of them participated in the Great Patriotic War. Some researchers are talking about a million. Pilots, scouts, anti-aircraft gunners, nurses and nurses. For their feat it’s generally impossible to find words ...
And just do not need about the fact that "the Germans took care of their women," and we - no! At the end of the war, the Nazis drove their Frau massively into the Volkssturm. All doubts on this score are dispelled by a single photograph, in which the brave Herr officer attaches to the shoulder of an absolutely civilian look to the lady (in a thumb and hat) not Faustpatron! Obviously, he teaches how to handle this subject to the sound of the approaching “thirty-fours” ... And one more thing - where the women of the Third Reich really noted what is called “in full”, very massively, this is in the auxiliary units of the SS engaged in the protection of concentration camps. I will not comment ...
Nazi Germany and all its allies and satellites did not lose the war because they did not have sheepskin coats and felt boots. And not because tanks and trucks with soldiers, rushing forward in an exhaling blitzkrieg, stuck in impassable mud. Certainly, the reason for their defeat is not that behind every Red Army soldier there was a feisty “special agent” or an employee of the NKVD with a nagan sent to his head. Not enough for everyone ... They lost by starting a war with a people that could not be defeated in principle. To nobody. Never. The path of the Soviet people to the inevitable and inevitable Victory began on June 22, 1941. I just had to go a long time ...
Happy Victory Day!
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