Week 099 - Barbarossa: a Wehrmacht Soap Opera - WW2 - July 18 1941

18th July 2020 15 mins Season 3 Episode 30

As the German armed forces stretch further and further into the USSR, the Wehrmacht command doesn't seem to agree where they are really going. In the Middle East, the Facsit French forces are delivered a hard blow as the Allied Syrian campaign comes to an end.

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Season 3 · Episode 31

Week 100 - The Wehrmacht - an Army on Horseback - WW2 - July 25 1941

Although we may picture panzers when we think of the German Army in WW2, it was very much an army that relied on horses- especially in the east- for a large part of its supplies and logistics, and the horse situation on the Eastern Front has grown dire. Japan's economic situation has also grown dire and they are now looking south for new sources of raw materials.

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