Episode 448-When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Battle of Smolensk is over. Another German victory, but before the panzers can move out again, many of them are sent to help the other Army Groups and Gen. Timoshenko is about to launch a series of massive of counter attacks against Von Bock. Enough, to drive the Germans back for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.3	force meets an immovable object.
1:11.2	Last time the War for Smolensk was just about over. Indeed Army Group Centres Commander
1:16.3	Von Bach had declared it so on August 5th. However, there were many moving parts in play that would affect the next few months and thus end up being the beginning of the end of Operation Barbarossa, though it would take a few years to play itself out. First Hitler was
1:36.2	determined to take Pansers away from Von Bach and send them towards Kiev
1:40.9	and Leningrad to wrap up those contests there. And though Kudarian and Hoth were not keen on this,
1:48.0	they mostly let it go, as they firmly believed that Stalin could not still have adequate forces in between them and Moscow.
1:56.8	Thus the Soviet capital would fall to infantry and artillery alone.
2:01.6	Next was a coming clash as both sides made plans for the Yelnia salient, that is, a bit of German
2:08.6	controlled territory that stuck out further than the rest of the front.
2:13.2	Hitler had told Von Bach that he could launch limited raids from this bulge,
2:18.2	while Stalin on August 1st ordered Jukoff to destroy that same bulge.
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