Typhoon but in the south

What if instead of launching Typhoon torwards Moscow in October, Hitler launched Guderian's 2nd Panzer group/army through Kursk, torward Voronezh to make an encirclment with AGS 1st panzer army.

3rd panzer army would provide flank support.

4th panzer army would remain up north to take and hold Tikvin and Voldolga to close the ring around Lake Ladoga.

The advantages seem to be that you deny/wreck as much of the black earth agricultural belt as possible to the Soviets before the end of the year, you can hold much of the Don as a defensive line and hopefully still hold Rostov at the start of next years campaign season.

Even without the advantage of hindsight encricling Moscow with its 4 million people and holding the ring until the city fell seemed beyond the reach of the Germans in 1941 but you still want to deny the production Donetz basin to the Soviets in 1941.
 
What if instead of launching Typhoon torwards Moscow in October, Hitler launched Guderian's 2nd Panzer group/army through Kursk, torward Voronezh to make an encirclment with AGS 1st panzer army.

3rd panzer army would provide flank support.

4th panzer army would remain up north to take and hold Tikvin and Voldolga to close the ring around Lake Ladoga.

The advantages seem to be that you deny/wreck as much of the black earth agricultural belt as possible to the Soviets before the end of the year, you can hold much of the Don as a defensive line and hopefully still hold Rostov at the start of next years campaign season.

Even without the advantage of hindsight encricling Moscow with its 4 million people and holding the ring until the city fell seemed beyond the reach of the Germans in 1941 but you still want to deny the production Donetz basin to the Soviets in 1941.
If the nazis believed they faced a war of attrition with the ussr, they wouldnt have invaded. Or would have done things very differently in a strategic sense, just just a tactical one.

The whole plan behind barbarossa assumed the soviets would collapse like a house of cards. Thats why the problem with the winter uniforms. There wasnt supposed to be any fighting by winter.

If youre trying to make a shaky country fall apart aiming for the capital, the dictator and the government makes sense.
 
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