WOH-4244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dnieper, Anatoly Karpov
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If you capture moscow, you eliminate soviet ability to bring in reserves. Minsk captured quickly (capital of yellow russia) Over 5 million soviets die in german captivity. Soviets will take many german prisoners, sent to work in siberia, last ones released in 1955. German army group north conquers baltic states and almost surrounds. Fails to have power/skill for massive encirclements that center and south have. Fails to completely cut off the city from the rest of the soviet union. Corridor se of leningrad sits on lake(ultimately cut by germans) freezes half of the year, allows for resupply to come in over frozen lake. Massive disease and starvation in the city but north fails to capture it. Able to encircle soviet armies on the frontier and keep encircling them all the way to smolensk. Bring new reserves, counterattack germans, soviet armies bottled up here. Many escape, many cut off and surrender.
