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Originally Posted by Supostat I already mentioned my arguments and I do not want to repeat them... basically they are:
1. Giving up initiative (even for while) increases a risk to loose entire war.
2. Time and any delays worked in the benefit of Red Army, not of Wermacht.
3. Thesis about unbreakable German defense lines in winter 1941/1942, located near the Dnieper river, does not hold critics because of points 1 and 2. |
I agree with these points although I am sure the counter will be that Germany quickly regained the initiative in spring/summer of 1942, I am not sure however that the 1942 offensives would have had the same success had they have started from further west.