Week by week history of WW2

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at the time in June 1941 the Wehrmacht seemed invincible

Our commanders made another mistake - they disastrously underestimated Germans and demanded to stop them immediately and push back to Germany.

 

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Japan needs resources for its war in China but where to get those resources? Meanwhile, the Germans go north and south in the Soviet Union

 

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Our commanders made another mistake - they disastrously underestimated Germans and demanded to stop them immediately and push back to Germany.

that is Stalin being impatient and breathing down your neck

 

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In this week, Japanese leadership is divided as to what to do in case of war with the western powers which seem to be very near. In USSR, the war becomes confusing as there seems to be no clear cut objective on both sides of the front

 

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The British and Soviets invade Iran and Op. Barbarossa trudges on. Guderian tried to make a case for German advance towards Moscow but Hitler over rides.

 

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It is two years this week since Germany invaded Poland. That European conflict soon became a global one. Japan's invasion of China began two years before that, but with Japan allied to the Axis Powers, they are now the same conflict. Those Axis are all fighting together now to try and defeat the Soviet Union, but the war has grown not just in the scale of the armies fighting, but also in the scale of man's inhumanity to man.

 

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The German invasion of the Soviet Union has taken enormous amounts of territory, but this week the Red Army not only stops the Germans, they score a ringing victory. However, Leningrad comes under siege and Kiev is in great danger, and Adolf Hitler is issuing directives for the next phase of the Operation.

 

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Kiev falls to the Germans, yielding hundreds of thousands of prisoners as whole armies are surrounded, but behind the lines all over German-occupied territories, partisan movements are gaining steam. Meanwhile, in China, Japan launches another campaign against Changsha.

 

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