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The most interesting two months of World War 2 - link
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Date: August 8th, 2025 3:14 PM Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,..................... On October 8, 1941, Hitler had his press secretary give a press conference claiming that Russia was now finished:
When on October 8, Orel, a key city south of Moscow, fell, Hitler sent his press chief, Otto Dietrich, flying back to Berlin, to tell the correspondents of the world’s leading newspapers there the next day that the last intact Soviet armies, those of Marshal Timoshenko, defending Moscow, were locked in two steel German pockets before the capital; that the southern armies of Marshal Budënny were routed and dispersed; and that sixty to seventy divisions of Marshal Voroshilov’s army were surrounded in Leningrad. “For all military purposes,” Dietrich concluded smugly, “Soviet Russia is done with. The British dream of a two-front war is dead.”
Shirer, William L.. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (pp. 1382-1383). RosettaBooks. Kindle Edition.
Less than two months later, even before Pearl Harbor, Hitler's top armaments adviser, who had looked closely at the weapons production of Germany and the USSR, told Hitler that not only had Germany not won the war, it could not do so:
As the leading German industrialist Fritz Todt explained to the Führer on November 29, 1941: “This war can no longer be won by military means.”
https://airmail.news/issues/2019-12-7/point-of-no-return
So from October 8, 1941 to November 29, 1941, everything changed. That makes that period by far the most interesting of the war. The US joining the war in December was just overkill.
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