Episode 471-My Tank is Thicker Than Your Tank

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Operation Barbarossa is launched, but the soviets don’t have their best men in place as they have been killed by Stalin’s purges. In time they will learn but for now, one city after another falls to the Axis. Still, there are moments of heroism but also incompetence, certainly among the NKVD, who know politics, but not warfare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.3	Episode 471, my tank is thicker than your tank.
1:19.6	The Battle of Kiev during the summer of 1941 was one of Hitler's greatest victories.
1:25.3	Pyrrhic, though it may have been, and yet it was only a stepping stone on the way to Moscow.
1:31.3	There was still much work to do. But a feature of the war in the East
1:35.9	had just begun, namely larger than expected German or access casualties, deaths of experienced or true believers that could not be replaced.
1:46.4	So though Germany advanced, it became weaker, literally, and in terms of nationalistic
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