We Have Been Surrounded On All Sides By Enemies. There Is No Escape. 

General Von Paulus was head of logistics in 1941; he (correctly) forecast that the German invasion would stall as soon as the Front got more than 180 Km from the railheads (because the trucks carrying gasoline for the tanks would use all the fuel jest getting to the tanks). The whole thing was based upon a worng assumption: that the Germans would defeat the Red Army 4 months after the start.

That's cool! How old are you? I was a journalist in the US Army.

@@blabberer8950 nice!!! I ain't a journalist. I just like to write. I'm trying to write ✍️ a novel.

@@Jestin612 What about? Where are you from?

@@blabberer8950 It's about if WWIII happened and we are on the losing side. I have a long way to go. But I plan on using the upper Midwest as the location.

Some of the other books posted mention it.

I have heard others mention it.

It happened tho I'm not sure it was on the scale that some imagine.

​@@openphotoOn a MASSIVE scale..... it's considered the largest documented usage of amphetamine in history

I have read accounts that say it was another one of those magical gimmicks the Third Reich was addicted to (unfortunate figure of speech- I know), which did not work out in real time as well as the planners thought it would. After a few days of pervitin use troops would be zombies for the next few days. I have read that it was used most in the early stages of the war (Poland, France and the Low Countries), and that the officer staff realized its limitations before the start of Barbarossa. It was still produced and still available, but it was clearly not a wunderwaffen. And anyone familiar with amphetamine effects knows that the energy it produces is not useful energy, just manic, out of control frenzy. It would be good for kamikaze pilots, but not for the kind of endless, grinding slog that Barbarossa became.@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg

Inga got a new russian daddy

@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg Thats nice

by this point wasnt its use forbiden as it wasnt inline with nazi proposed morals

GEN. George S, Patton; We Fought The Wrong Enemy ❤❤❤

NAPOLEON DID THE SAME THING!!!

The US did the same thing in Vietnam.

Vietnam doesn't have -40F winters @@jameswells-green9476

And HITLER was drawing up plans to attack the USA in the 1930s.

I think you are correct. The Russians were going to attack. Check out Hans Schaufler's book.

You need to read more German memoirs. On attacking, the Wermacht found all Red Army fortifications, artillery, and plans for defensive work. They were not planning to attack Germany. You need to find the maturity and courage to accept that aggressive War was planned Nd executed by the Germans, instead of just letting your biases come out. Ne a historian, not a fanboy.

@@RT-far-T thank you for clarifying