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The Retreat From Moscow
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David Stahel from New Zealand, is an historian, author and senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales. He specialises in German military history and has authored several books on the military operations of the first six months of the Eastern Front, including on the launching of Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Kiev and the Battle for Moscow.
Germany's winter campaign of 1941-1942 is commonly seen as its first defeat. In today's show David will argue that instead it was its first strategic success in the East. The Soviet counteroffensive was in fact a Pyrrhic victory. Despite being pushed back from Moscow, the Wehrmacht lost far fewer men, frustrated its enemy's strategy, and emerged in the spring unbroken and poised to recapture the initiative.
Hitler's strategic plan called for holding important Russian industrial cities, and the German army succeeded. The Soviets as of January 1942 aimed for nothing less than the destruction of Army Group Center, yet not a single German unit was ever destroyed. Lacking the professionalism, training, and experience of the Wehrmacht, the Red Army's offensive attempting to break German lines in countless head-on assaults led to far more tactical defeats than victories.
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Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942 by David Stahel
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