[FW190]

It has been fashionable to describe Hitler's turning away from Moscow as the key error of the summer campaign. "•The OKW war diary describes Hitler's feeling on the capture of Moscow: "In this regard it could then happen that Panzer Group 2 turns to the south so that for the thrust on Moscow only infantry armies of Army Group Centre remain. This eventuality does not worry the Führer because Moscow is for him only a geographical term." "

OKW should have bitch slapped that Austrian FOOL because Moscow was the rail/communication center of the Russian government/military. Had Hitler take Moscow when it was his for the taking, Hitler's decision to turn towards Kiev wouldn't have been necessary because the entire Sowjet war effort would have colapsed.

Of coarse had Germany won the war, my parents (born a thousand miles apart) would probably never have met. Therfore, my siblings and I would not have been born.

[dfwgator]

I think had Hitler taken Moscow, the Bolsheviks, or at least Stalin, would have been deposed.

[CougarGA7]

Hitler fancied himself the supreme strategist. Unfortunately for the Nazis he was not even close. With the attack on Russia he felt that it would convince Britain to surrender and that it would not require Moscow to achieve victory. On both counts he couldn’t have been more wrong and his generals knew it from the word go.