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by jollyllama 1415 days ago
>the German army fought through 3 winters

That's true, but the winter was famously the inflection point in WWII. It's no coincidence.

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All the sources I've read agree that this had more to do with the complete absence of a long term strategy on the German side, not the weather. They had resources for 6 months, and went into the USSR with everything they had, no reserves. When that wasn't enough, there was no plan B.
Interesting. I'll have to explore this explanation further sometime.