re: WWII buffs: let's talk about Germany's biggest strategic blunder

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Germany should have captured the oil in the south rather than marching to Moscow/Stalingrad. They could have cut off the power in the country, rather than invading during the winter....which has never, ever been successful.

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Well the original plan was for the war to be over before the onset of the Russian winter. Where they screwed up was wasting weeks bailing out Italy in the Balkans instead of launching into Russia on the original timetable.