re: 73 Years ago today: Battle of Stalingrad ends with the surrender of 6th Army

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The real blunder came when Hitler had to support Mussolini in the balkans. That delayed his invasion of Russia by a few months and made them run into the winter

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This wasn't a blunder, it was a situational necessity for the Germans. Pretty much everything the Italians did in WWII was a blunder though.

But your point is an astute one that most people don't understand when they utter the cliche "Hitler invaded Russian in the winter" nonsense. Not only did he invade in the summer, but behind the original schedule and having to allocate combat resources to a campaign in the Balkans. The time lost possibly changed the entire outcome of the war. Pretty remarkable.