Moscow 1941: Hitler's Nemesis with Jonathan Dimbleby

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🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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While the allies reeled from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States, a ferocious battle was also raging across the icy steppes of Russia in early December 1941. Hitler had launched his invasion of the Soviet Union in June of that year - Operation Barbarossa- the largest and deadliest in modern history. The German army was no match for the sheer number of soldiers sent by Stalin or the brutal conditions of a Russian winter. By the time Hitler's army reached the gates of Moscow on the 2nd of December, millions from both sides had died.

In June this year, Dan was joined by historian and veteran broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby to discuss the beginning of Operation Barbarossa and the German offensive. Jonathan joins Dan once more to, this time, look at Stalin's response, what was going on in the city during the Battle of Moscow and why the Soviets ultimately succeeded in defeating the Germans.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Dance Know's History.
0:03.0	80 years ago this week, the 20th century, the whole of the modern world, was being shaped.
0:10.2	The battleships the American Pacific Fleet lay on the bottom of the Hawaiian naval base
0:14.8	at Pearl Harbor.
0:16.2	The greatest carrier strike group ever assembled have been sent by Japan to try and neutralise
0:21.3	the American Pacific Fleet.
0:23.2	The USA, the world's most important economic and industrial power, was now in the Second
0:28.8	World War.
0:29.8	Congress declared roaring Japan after their surprise attack at Pearl Harbor and days later,
0:35.2	had of Hitler, would declare war in America, bringing it in to the European War.
0:40.4	We got podcasts on that coming up.
0:42.3	We're going to be looking at the 80th anniversary's that were coming out as thick and fast at
0:45.6	the moment.
0:46.6	But meanwhile, whilst America, Britain and other allies, reeled from Japanese attacks,
0:52.1	on the eastern front, possibly the decisive clash was taking place in that terrible war
0:58.2	within a war, in unimaginably cold temperatures.
1:02.1	Millions of men were hurling themselves at an enemy that would decide the fate of the
1:06.1	Soviet capital Moscow, and possibly decide the fate of the Second World War.
1:12.6	On the 2nd of December 1941, a German reke unit reached the Volga Moscow Canal.
1:21.3	They captured a key bridge on that canal, and they were now 19 miles away from the Kremlin
1:26.4	in Moscow.
1:27.4	It was as close as Adolf Hitler's forces would get to the capital of his Soviet nemesis.
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