BlairWitch749
Banned
At the end of 1941, Guderian was fired; both due to long standing fueds with his commanding officers AND for making a nuisance out of himself/playing games with orders to the point that nobody wanted to deal with him anymore.
He sat out all of 1942, not only because he was in Hitler's doghouse (an example of this was that when Rommel went home on sick leave in '42 he asked for Guderian to take over the Panzer Army Africa, and Hitler refused saying he was unacceptable to be reinstated to active service)... AND because he had a number of heart and stomach ailments that required a considerable rest period
So lets say his stomach and heart problems flare up just after the Vzama-Bryansk encirclements are complete, and he is compelled to go home. This saves him the disgrace of failing before Moscow, and stops him from building up a lot of the bad blood that kept him off active service. Lets say he is able to take 6 months to recover so that by June he is healthy
Bock gets fired in July 1942 for disobeying orders and bickering with high command... in steps Guderian to take over army group south (for the purposes of the POD, A and B army groups are not created, but instead stay subordinate to Guderian's headquarters
what do we see different?
He sat out all of 1942, not only because he was in Hitler's doghouse (an example of this was that when Rommel went home on sick leave in '42 he asked for Guderian to take over the Panzer Army Africa, and Hitler refused saying he was unacceptable to be reinstated to active service)... AND because he had a number of heart and stomach ailments that required a considerable rest period
So lets say his stomach and heart problems flare up just after the Vzama-Bryansk encirclements are complete, and he is compelled to go home. This saves him the disgrace of failing before Moscow, and stops him from building up a lot of the bad blood that kept him off active service. Lets say he is able to take 6 months to recover so that by June he is healthy
Bock gets fired in July 1942 for disobeying orders and bickering with high command... in steps Guderian to take over army group south (for the purposes of the POD, A and B army groups are not created, but instead stay subordinate to Guderian's headquarters
what do we see different?