Snake Featherston
Banned
Weather played the part, but it equaled out. It was not any easier for the Soviets.
Point is, as always in war, the logistics. German Heer has no ability to supply troops going to Moscow. They could adequatly logistically cover only a stretch of 500 kilometers beyond railheads. In winter weather much less. They hoped to capture Moscow on a bluff and once that failed, that was it. They lost the war. From then on it was just the matter of time. Nazi Germany was not capable of fighting war of attrition that was required to defeat Soviet Union. At least not under Hitler. And probably not under Nazi system or anything resembling Nazi system.
It was worse than trying to capture it on a bluff, Halder was asking Army Group Center to pull off a double-envelopment when it was already overextended at its starting position. The attempt didn't even, as it turned out, do much more than force the Soviet defenders in front of Moscow to their very utmost........and without the USSR tapping into the huge forces behind the city, forces that for the second straight time in a German strategic offensive the Germans had no remote idea they ever existed.