To Go Over- Part 3 Flashcards
Why did ra perform so badly 1941- german tatcical capability
Blitzkrief swept all before across poland 1939 and balkans spring 1941
Intention was to rpeeat tacticals sucessful in fr
German air power- 3500 aircrafts in lufwaffe- most powerful and experiences air force, no focus on soviet in jun 1941
Pilots experienced, guernica
Ger strategy why ra badly 1941
German military intelligence overemphasised effect of reorganised follow ra performance in winter war finland 1940
Brandenburgers- first germans across- pparachute into territory or on board goods trains- in poland wore civilian clothes, siezed key strategic points
3key points go south go central go north- encircle
War of inhillation- kill destory pillage- creatin fear
Ra perform so badly 1941- soviet command and communication
Command, control centers artierial roads to boarder were targeted and destroyed lyfwaffe- max confusion
Lack of radio communication meant culdnt cooperate- landlines which meant could be cut as no commercial ones- stalin couldnt trust radio
Ger forces able to crack soviet communications across 1800km front, paralyse communications between 20km wide zone helf by nkvd- unable communicate politburo, resort flag signals
Stalin made decisions despite little military experoiecne
Panzer groups sped past- 100km to east- leaving infantry and anti tank guns to shoot up lightly equped soviet forces
Operation barbarossa
3 mill men
3 army groups
North- baltic states to leningrad
Centre to moscow
South to ukriane and caucuses
Soviet setbacks- phase 1
Early sept- 4 mill russiian tropps killed wounded or capitured and 180,000 ger
Since pruges set back signif
600,000 surrender
Soveit forces rapidly expelled from baltic states and leningrad under siege
1942 spring offensive
Av soldier only basic traing 141
227 not a single step back- penal battalions- july 1942
Minsk fall quickly
Moscow attempt push back overcome
Communicatiosn weak no radio
Deaths leningrad
Leningrad high deaths- 4000/day in jan, comp 52,000whole dec- yet claimed 600 died in siege
1/3 pop died
Stalingrad
Aug 1942- feb 1943
Part of operation blue
Mission led by zhukov
Poor ger moral, soviet pincher offensive, cut off ger troops as hitler ordered to stay- 250,000 cut off
Weather conditions worsened- soveits took airfields
Wounded men left to die, clothes with fleas
After soviet forces came upon pauius (ger) hq jan 1943 90,000 soldiers into captivity, 6,000 return decade later
Moscow
Sep 1942- jan 1942
Zhukov defends army suffered 20x ger caulties but wehtmacht could advance no further
59 frein troops diverted from east
Ger retreat but poor soveit offensive led to 500,000 deaths and 20,000 ger
Operation typhoon meant hitler scaled down plan for 1942 summer offenseive
Soviet setbacks phase 2
1942 summer to summer 1943
Moscow higher deaths- half mill to ger 20,000 huigh attritional rate
Ger get donbass- cut off cuacuases on soviets
Babi yah 30,000 jews killed
Felll of rostov- on don strategic loss- staliin refused to allow an evacuation of stalingrad- cuased 1 million ra high civilian deaths
Stage 2 soveit sucess
Stalingrad
Leningrad
Kursk
Moscow
Moved industrial areas
Soviet sucess stage 3
Leningrad ultiately victorious- helfd by citizens
Krusk only 5 tnks lost- use of dummy tanks
Plans more effective and better leadership zhukov
Massive iffensive pushed dec 1943- gained latvia lithuania belarus bulgaria
Beat allies to ebrlin\
Stalin role as figurehead pro
Comrades citizens brothers and sisters- stalin speech motiae many 3 july 141
First speech since offensive
Simonev recallled ‘my firends’ moves us t tears
Spoke of patriotci war of all people
Stayed in moscow- symbolic on a film recorded - §
Stalin wartime ruthelesness con
Battle stalingrad 135,000 shot
270 and 227
Victory resilience ra
3% male consciprt born 1923 survive until 1945
Figes soviet greatest weapon
Ra troppo transfer from eastern were hardned isberian warroers
Sense of patriotism from ferocious resistance
Vas rosuces in mandpower allowed suicidal sacrifices exhaust ger
270 and 227
War of tatition
Moscow and stalingrad
Victory partisan activities
Stalin demanded create partisan guerilla units in ger occupied territory
1941 members of partisans and komosomol help patrisans
Mid 1942 each partisan group has nkvd cell attached
Tanya- propaganda tool- teenage gril patrisna tortuered and interrogated by ger= last words stalin is with us
victory allied support
1941 fdr land lease act- import tanks and jeaps- 1/3 soviet vehicles from abroad
Land lease 5% ussr gdp
Spam food us
Blestchley park decoded naxi code
1945 d day new front
1943 mass bombings raf and usad- weakend industrial heartland ger
Industrial probelms post war
Nove- years- odly shapeless peirod- econ policy ideas rfrozen into their pre war moulds
Factories left in ruins, mines floods, shousands km of track and rolling stofk destoryed
70% insudtrial production left in western occupied region
145-46- mining halved, electircity 52% capcity, steel 45% pre war level
Losses from war
Mass migration 12 million 1944-45 to west
Casulties over 29 million- 84% died wiunded or capitured
Total deaths around 17 milll
1700 towns 7000 villages decimated- 25 mill homelss,
Agri problems posrt war
Nearly 40% jikjihoz stopped functioning
Many peasants return privatised famrs
Heavy loss life
Shortage 137000 traactors
Food production 1940. 60% level
Grain procurement 70%- lead to famine
Main aims policies for industry
4th 5y plan 1946-50
85% investment devoted to ehavy industries and cpautal goods- consumer goods take back seat
33% plan target ukraine
Exceed pre war levels
Increas elabour output- leningrad 30h/month ontop 8 hour days, 2 mill prisoner of wars
Main aims agri
Kolkohoz reformed
Cenyral conttol
1948 stalin plan for the trandformation of nature= plants in unsuitible paces
Stalins writining not allowd challngng - ie economic problems of socialism in ussr 1952- more jsutification of soviet policu than attampt to identify reofmr or innovation in countryside
Sucess agri
Provate plots kept affloat
Some recovery but still beow 1940-52- 95.6 to 92.2
Sucess agri
Provate plots kept affloat
Some recovery but still beow 1940-52- 95.6 to 92.2