RE: Soviet Deep Battle
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 9:48 pm
Soviets have to win the war of attrition in 1943 and summer of 1944 to set conditions for deep battle in late 44.
ORIGINAL: RCHarmon
Hitlers no fallback orders contributed to the Soviets ability to break out in 1944 and 1945.
has more to do with the Russians being able to organized and concentration forces on offensives on the thin German lines (very little depth defense, stretch too thin). Also the Russians fooled German generals like Model that the main attack was coming from Ukraine and hence Model moved the Panzer Divisions out of the area that would of helped with plugging holes. In winter 1942 the Soviets never concentration there forces with the few tanks and art they had and hence grounded down right away by German counter attacks. I recommended reading David Stahel and David Glantz.