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re: The largest land invasion in military history commenced on this day 85 years ago...
Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:46 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:46 pm to RollTide1987
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Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:52 pm to RollTide1987
If you have one, what is your favorite podcast on that?
Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:53 pm to mailman85
Great link.
Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:54 pm to KiwiHead
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If Hitler launches Barbarossa in early May, who knows how the war goes. Those 5 weeks were key.
Thanks, il Duce
Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:58 pm to deltadummy
Dan Carlin has a magnificent podcast on the eastern front. Ghosts of the Ostfront.
Posted on 6/22/26 at 7:07 pm to TigerMond84
Yeah, I've listened to that one. Should've said "aside from DC". That is a great one, but most of his are.
Posted on 6/22/26 at 7:07 pm to RollTide1987
The logistics of that had to be such a nightmare
Posted on 6/22/26 at 7:14 pm to Lawyered
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The logistics of that had to be such a nightmare
It was worse than you can even imagine. I can’t remember the exact breakdown, but a huge portion of the vehicles (everything from tanks to lorries) the Germans did have were ones they’d captured from other countries. Imagine the headache from spare parts alone.
A other thing was how to keep the horses alive. As I said earlier, 119 of the 153 German divisions relied on horses for transportation. In total, the Wehrmacht had roughly 750,000 horses on the Eastern Front when they invaded the USSR. The daily requirement to keep these horses fed was approximately 9,000 tons of hay.
This post was edited on 6/22/26 at 7:29 pm
Posted on 6/22/26 at 8:41 pm to bdavids09
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This post was edited on 6/22/26 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 6/22/26 at 8:50 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:I imagine a good portion of those horses got eaten the winter of ‘41 around Moscow and ‘42 around Stalingrad. Who knows if any of those horses survived the war?
In total, the Wehrmacht had roughly 750,000 horses on the Eastern Front when they invaded the USSR
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