_THE END_

Ok,as I said with the collapse of the German forces in World War 2,its mean I have to stop to post any history fact.For those who was already visited my blog,thank you..hope you can proceed with the difficult part at Wikipedia or any encyclopedia site..but I fully recommend Wikipedia because its much easier to understand and it can be trusted..Thats all folks..thank you,do visit my blog's new look

The German Collapse

This will be the last history post of this blog. I shall never post any again..The German collapse, where it will be the end of World War 2..Let us start..

1.The allies were ready for the final attack on German but they focused to bombard the German but they focused to bombard the Germans land first..

2.RAF launched a series of aerial attack on Dresden with 800 warplanes in the night of 13th-14th February 1945 and continued by the U.S 8th Airforce with 400 warplanes in daylight..

3.The motive of these raid was alledgely to protect Soviet advance to entered Berlin's outskirt before storms the most beautiful city in Europe,Berlin..

4.Patton's 3rd Army reached Rhine at Koblenz early in March..

5.Hodges's 1st Army seized Remagen bridge at Rhine River..

6.Simpson's 9th Army reaached Rhine River near Dusseldorf..

7.All 3 armies were ordered to mark time until Montgomery's grand assault against the Germans troops position strength along the Rhine River..

8.At last, night of 23rd-24th March 1945, Montgomery attack by 25 divisions was launched off the Rhine River near Wesel.

9.Let us see the movement of Allies armies..

a)Canadian 1st Army:Drove ahead Netherlands.

b)British 2nd Army:Northeastward to Lubeck and to Wismar on to Baltic..

c)US 1st Army:Swept forward across Germany..

d)US 9th Army:Magdeburg through Leipzig..

e)US 3rd Army:To the border of Czechslovakia..

f)French 1st Army and US 7th Army:Drove to Austria..

10.March 28th 1945, Guderian replaced by Hans Kreb as chief of the general staff..

11.The western Allies reached Elbe River,60 miles from Berlin on 11th April 1945..

12.The eastern Allies reached Vienna on 6th April 1945 and took Konigsberg three days later.Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front and Konev's 1st Ukranian Front crossed Neisse River and within a week they were driving into the suburbs of Berlin..

13.By April 25th 1945,the armies of Zhukov and Konev had completely encircled Berlin and on the sameday they linked up with the Americans and British on the Elbe River..

14.During the night of 29th April 1945,Hitler married his meistress,Eva Braun and on 30th April1945 he comitted suicide with Eva in the ruins of Chancellery as the advancing Red Army troops were less than half a mile from his bunker complex..

15.The Germans troops willing to surrender to the Western Allies rather than to the Soviets..

16.On the Italian front,4 Germans divisions were transferred from Kesselring's command to the western front and on April 1945 the thin German defences in Italy was broken by an allied attack..

17.A surrender document was been signed on 29th April 1945 while Hitler still alive..

18.The surrender of German forces in northwestern Europe was signed at Montgomery's headquarter on Luneburg Heath on May 4th 1945 and a further document covered all German forces was signed with more ceremony at Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims,in the presence of US,British,and French delegations.

19.At midnight on 8th May 1945,the war in Europe was officially over..

The Soviets advance to the Oder

I will end the World War 2 topic tomorrow..With the end of the last topic which is "The German Collapse",I will customize my blog back into the normal daily blog,no more history and I will post what i'm going to do and my life maybe there will be some fact but not in a large scale of writing,it will be like "History On This Day" or something like that la..Ok,let us proceed..

a)Vistula-Oder Offensive

1.At the end of 1944,the Germans still held the Western Poland and their front still 200 miles east..

2.The Germans had checked the Soviet's summer offensive and established a firm line along the Narew and Vistula Rivers southward to Carpathians and in October they repelled the Red Army's attempt to thrust into the East Prussia..

3.Soviets troops moving up to the Eastern Balkan,pushing around through Hungary and Yugoslavia in a vast flanking movement..

4.Germans intelligence reported that some 225 Soviet infantry division plus with 22 armored division had been identified on the front between Baltic and Carphatians..

5.Hitler refused to transferred his troops to the Eastern Front but willing to stop the Allies at Ardeness..

6.At that time,he also refused to evacuate the German forces which was isolated in Courland,the Baltic seacoast..

7.The result,Guderian was left with a reserve of 12 armored division to backup the 50 weak infantry division..

8.Soviet's Vistula-Oder Offensive started on 12th January 1945 when Konev's army assaulted the German front at the Southern Poland..

9.Zhukov's army in the center of the front bounded from bridgehead near Warsaw..

10.On 14th January 1945,Rokovsky's army joined the offensive striking from Narew River,north of Warsaw and covered flank approach to East Prussia..

11.17th January 1945,Warsaw was captured by Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front.Konev's spearhead reached Silesia and crossed Oder River and captured Breslau and thus cut off Silesia's important mineral resources from Germans.

12.Zhukov 1st Belorussian front driving forward from Warsaw past Poznaj,Bydgosoz and Toruj to the Gulf Of Danzig.

13.25 German's divisions in the East Prussia has been cutting off by 2 Soviets spearhead..

14.Hitler created new army groups under the command of SS Gen Heinrich Himmler.Zhukov mechanized his troops on 31st January 1945 and crossed the lower Oder(40 miles from Berlin)..

15.Konev's Ukranian front reached Sommerfield(80 miles from Berlin) on Fenruary 13th 1945 and crossed Neisse River two days later..

16.The Americans and British had crossed Rhine while the Soviets took Budapest on 13th February 1945..

Thats all for today,tomorrow will be the end of World War 2..hopefully..

Defeat Or Victory

I have got my SPM result,from 10 subject I only got 5A's only..It is the BM,English,History,AG, and geography..Mathematic,B only..and the others I just want to cry..As I said,I am not good at all at add.math,physic,biology and chemistry and I did not want to announced the grade for those damn subject..But,yesterday has teach me that I will dare not to take any science subject again..I will continue to focus more in art,literature,geography and finally history..Sorry,but there was no picture or video on it..it is the secret thing,so that all of you can't see others result except the excel one..I will not post any history fact today..So,what do you think,Defeat Or Victory for me..In my point of view,actually I have won the easiest part but lost the crucial things..but its Ok..it just a mistake from my exit strategy in the battleplan on the SPM,nothing to say again,I have finally graduated from high school..I hope any universities can take me as their student,please...

The German Offensive in the West,winter 1944-1945

Sorry,I just can't wait to take my result,but I will keep posting the history fact for today..this day I will post the last German offensive in WW2..

1.Hitler raised 'Volksturm' or the homeguard for the defense of the Third Reich stated that all men between the ages of 16-60 years will be recruit in order to become a 'saviour' for the Third Reich..

2.French 1st and US 7th Armies had reached Rhine River at Alsace..

3.The German amassed 24 divisions for the counter-offensive at Ardeness under the overall command of Field Marshal Gerd Von Runstedt..

4.Let us see the movement of German offensive at Ardeness or well known as the Ardeness Offensive..

a)The 1st Offensive against the US weakest sector between Monschau and Echternach..

b)5th Panzer Army under Gen Hasso Von Manteuffeil will covered 7th Panzer Army which wheel northwestward to cross Meuse River of Namur in a drive on Brussels..

c)6th Panzer Army under SS Gen Sepp Dietrich will move to north to capture Antwerp..

5.Ardeness Offensive was launched by surprised on 16th December 1944 took the allies by surprised..

6.5th Panzer Army managed to crossed Meuse River at Givet and Dinant and reached the point of 20 miles of crossing it..

7.Small US forces under Bradley was encircled at Bastogne.The allies support by transported the 101st US Airborne Division under the command of Gen Chester Anthony McAullife..

8.26th December 1944,Patton's 3rd Army relief of Bastogne.The weather was cleared and the allied aircraft,some 5000 warplanes began to strafe and bomb the German forces..

9.During 8th-16th January 1945,the Germans troops began to withdraw.The Germans sustained 120000 casualties and the Americans sustained about 75000 in the famous Battle Of Bulge..

The Eastern Front,June-December 1944

1.After a successfull offensive against the Finns at Karelian Isthmuts had culminated in the capture of Viipuri on 20th June 1944,the Red Army began to conduct a major offensive on the German front in Belorussia..

2.Minsk fell to the Red Army under Gen Konstantine Rokossovsky on 3rd July 1944..

3.They reached Vistula-San River on 31st July 1944 and penetrated Warsaw.There,the Polish underground rose in revolt and gained control the city.SS Armored Division arrived to surpressed the revolt,Red Army stoodidly by across Vistula while the German crushed the revolt..

4.Red Army advance of 450 miles in a few week but the halt at Vistula was to last to 6 months..

5.On August 20th 1944,2 Soviets spearhead were launched in another direction against the German salient in Bessarabia..

6.Belgrade fell into Red Army on 20th October 1944 and a rapid drive from Transylvanian sector into the Hungarian plain brought Soviets to Budapest on 4th November 1944..

7.Finland had capitulated on September,and the Red Army offense the German forces remaining troops in Estonia,Latvia,and Lithuania..

Enough for today,tomorrow,I did not post any because I will take my SPM result..but Friday,I will post "The German Offensive In The West,winter 1944-1945"..

Operation Market Garden

2 days to go,tik tok tik tok and the clock ticking each seconds made me felt more anxious to know what will happen to my result on this thursday.To cheer up myself,I always wrote and post the topic which was considered boring for everyone in this world,history..yeah,you can see it,I just have only 4 followers rather than my friends that have a hundred or even thousands of followers..but,its okay,I'm satisfied with my blog,actually,having a blog make me so proud..I can improve my english,and I can share my simple fact to everyone eventhough not so many people visiting my blog..ha3x,okay..Today,I will post the final step for the Allies to throw the Germans from the Low Land Countries and push them back to their homeland..

1.Montgomery's 2nd Army need to cross Rhine at Arnhem but it was too risky..

2.By crossing Lower Rhine,the Allies could manage to outflank the German's Siegfried and encircled Ruhr Valley..

3.So,its required the paratroopers,a large scale of airborne forces to secure the key bridges stretches along Lower Rhine

a)82nd US Airborne:Grave,Groessbek,Nijmegen.

b)101st US Airborne Division:Son,Best

c)British 1st Airborne Division and Polish Airborne Division:Arnhem

4.The plan of action consisted of two operations:

a)Market: airborne forces of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army to seize bridges and other terrain, under tactical command of I Airborne Corps under Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, and

b)Garden: ground forces of the Second Army to move north spearheaded by XXX Corps under Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks.

5.The Allies suffered heavy casualties but the way for the Montgomery's 2nd Army was cleared..

6.US 1st Army captured Aachen on 20th October 1944,Patton's 3rd Army secured Metz but 1st Canadian Army did not clear the Schelde estuary west of Antwerp.

7.It was believed that the failure of Market Garden comes in weather,intelligence failure and priority of operation..

8.The result of those three major operations,the Allies amazingly advanced of 350 miles in a few weeks was thus brought to halt when they reached Ardeness..

9.The Allies had a superiority of 20 to 1 in tanks and 25 to 1 in warplanes against the Germans..

10.The Germans near to collapse in August 1944,they were not prepared mentally and materially..

Maybe,tomorrow I will post about the Eastern Front on June-December 1944..just wait and see la..

Operation Dragoon

It is about another 3 days to the V-SPM Day or D-SPM Day..I hope V,signed for Victory.I hope it will be the grand finale for my effort..err,little effort that I have been shown 3 months ago..OK,I have promised to post 2 more major Western Allies operation against the Germans at Western Front right,so I will post the Operation Dragoon.

1.Operation Dragoon was launched on 15th August 1944,it was the continual of Operation Overlord,the landing at Normandy,and it was to push the Germans from the Low Land Countries since the French have been freed from their might of power..

2.It was conducted by the US 7th Army and the French 1st Army and the Overlord forces..

3.Both armies landed on the French Revieria where the Germans have only 4 divisions to oppose them..

4.Let see the allies movement during the operation..

a)US 7th Army:Drove Alps and took Grenoble..

b)1st French ArmyTook Marseille on 23rd August 1944 and advanced eastward through France up to Rhone Valley..

*At Rhone Valley,both US and French rejoined at Lyon and swiftly march northeastward into Alsace..

c)Montgomery 2nd Army:Entered Brussels on 3rd September 1944,took Antwerp on 4th September 1944 and crossed Albert Canal on 7th September 1944..

d)US 1st Army:Taken Namur and nearing Aachen to support Montgomery's 2nd Army..

e)Patton's 3rd Army:Captured Verdun on 31st August 1944,crossed Mossele near Metz on 5th September 1944..

5.Thats all folks,tomorrow I will post the 3rd operation conducted by the western allies at western front,the Market Garden..

The Allies Invasion of Western Europe

I'm truly shock when my friend tell me that the SPM result will come earlier,he said it was today..but,its just a prank..damn it you Dolah,the actual day to receive my result will be on next thursday,on 11th March 2010.Let me proceed to our next lesson,the allies invasion of Western Europe,the continent must be liberate by those Krauts and it was begun at Normandy,Northern France..In the period between June and November saw many of the allies victory against the Germans from Western to Eastern Europe..

a)Operation Overlord

1.The OKH already expected an allied invasion of Northern France..

2.Gen Gerd Von Runstedt expected that the invasion will be at Calais and Dieppe,but Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Adolf Hitler expected that the invasion will be at Coasts Of Normandy..

3.The Germans have 59 divisions spread over Western Europe and Lowland Countries,but approximately half of this number were static and the remainder may only included only 10 armoured or motorized division..

4.The Western Allies launched Operation Overlord,the invasion of Northern France took place on 6th June 1944-the war most celebrated D-Day..

5.Some 156000 men landed on the beaches of Normandy between Orne Estuary and the Contentin Peninsular.83000 British and Canadian will take the Eastern beaches and other 73000 Americans will take the Western beaches..

6.Once they land at all beaches,they will be under Eisenhower's supreme commander and Montgomery's immediate command..

7.The allies invanding forces and LZ..

a)Canadian 1st Army under Lt.Gen Henry Duncan Graham Crerar command will storm the Gold-Juno Beaches..

b)British 2nd Army under the command of Lt.Gen Sir Miles Dempsey will land on Sword Beach..

c)United States 1st Army under Lt.Gen Omar Nelson Bradley will storm the Omaha and Utah Beaches..

d)82nd and 101st US Airborne Division will be drop behind enemy line to cut the Germans supply and sabotage the facilities..

e)3rd and 6th British Airborne Division will be drop behind enemy line and capture strategic bridge and hold it until the reinforcement from the Sword come..

8.By 0900 AM on D-Day the coastal defences were generally breached,but Caen scheudled to fall on D-Day but held out until 9th July 1944..

9.US Forces(Western Sector) managed to captured Cherbourg on 26th June 1944 and turn southward to take St.Lo on 18th July 1944..

10.Runstedt urgent plea for permission to retreat provoked Hitler,on July 3rd 1944 Von Kluge replaced Runstedt as commander in-Chief in the west..

11.On 31st July 1944,the US 3rd Army under the command of Gen,George S.Patton broke the Germans line at Avranches,the gateway from Normandy to Brittany..

12.7th August 1944,the desperate 4 German Panzer Division try to seal the breach but failed..

13.Some of the US Forces swung southwestward and hope to seize Breton ports while the others went towards the crossing of Loire..

14.In the Falaise Pocket, a large part of the Germans retreating southward from the pressure of Allies left at Caen.The Americans took a flanking maneuver eastward while the Polish and Canadian take northward..

15.More allies troops landed at Normandy,On 1st August 1944,the 21st(British-Canadian) and the 12th(Americans) under Bradley landed and reinforced the remained allies troops at France..

16.Middle of August an eastward wheel wider had cut off the Falaise pocket had brought the Americans to Argentan(southeast of Falaise) and leveled with the British,Polish and Canadian advance on the north of Allies front..

17.On 17th August 1944,the US division successfully crossed Seine at Mantes-Gassicourt and took Orleans..

18.French Resistance under the command of Gen Jacques Leclerc pressing forward from Normandy,received the surrender of German forces at Paris and liberated the city on 25th August 1944..

19.The German forces would form a strong defensive barrier line if they pull back to the Seine River but Hitler stupidly ordered that there should not be withdrawal.The result was devastated for the Germans,the bulk of Germans armoured and infantry division largely trapped by the arc of Allies advance and that it what we knew about the Falaise Pocket..

20.Some 200000 Germans troops were taken prisoners in Frace and 1200 Germans tanks have been destroyed..

OK,next time I will post about another 2 major operation in the Western Europe along with the result..

The Allies Invasion Of Italy

We already knew that the forces of Allies successfully captured Sicily,from there an operation to invade Italy can be launched anytime and everywhere,the Germans also knew it,so they prepare to send the Allies to Sicily back from Italy..

1.From Sicily,the allies had a wide choice of directions for their next offensive..

a)Calabria: Toe

b)Salerno: Shin

c)Foggia: Heel

2.The 2 Army Corps of Montgomery's 8th Army crossed the Straits Of Messina and landed on the 'toe' of Italy on 3rd September 1943..

3.The mixed US-British 5th Armies under Gen Mark Clark landed on the 'shin' of Italy..

4.Kesselring just have 8 weak divisions to defend all southern and Central Italy..

5.The Allies managed to captured Taranto,Brindisi in a very short of time after their landing at Salerno..

6.The 5th Army crossed Volturno, 20 miles from Naples, while the 8th Army crossed Gariglinio and marched to Calabria(up to Adriatic Sea)..

7.The allies managed to breached German's Gustav Line through Monte Cassino and Appenines to the mouth of Sangro..

8.The bitter fighting continued until at the end of war,4 German divisions were transferred from Kesselring's command to the Western Front and in April 1945 the thin German defenses in Italy was broken by an allied attack..

9.A surrender document has been signed on 29th April 1945 when Hitler still alive..

Sicily and the fall of Mussolini

I'm was thinking to started the WW2 topic,because I had a time with it..too much time at home,no work to do and the SPM result will be know next week,hopefully I get a good result..Today,I will introduced the Western allies movement against the Germans,yeah,yesterday we have learn the Soviet movement against those Krauts..The Germans need to be stop,the Soviet successfully do their work by quickly push the Germans back to their initial point before the invasion.However,the Western allies also plan something to drive the Germans from Sicily and Italy.Hitler will faces his greater nightmare,he will lost his ally Bennito Mussolini and also his own troops by the Americans,Polish and British which are the invading forces.

1.The Axis had only 10 Italian division and 2 Germans Panzer Division units stationed at Sicily on 1943..

2.The Allies were preparing to threw some 478000 mens into the island,some 150000 men on the first day of invasion..

3.Under the command of Montgomery's British 8th Army and Patton's US 7th Army,the allies troops was to be landed on two stretches of beach which 40 miles long.The British will take some 20 miles southwest and the Americans will cover another 20 miles south of Sicily..

4.The Allies gained an air superiority,some 4000 Allied warplanes against 1500 Germans and Italians..

5.Sicily collapsed rapidly.The British drive towards Messina,while the Americans took Palermo on 22nd July 1943..

6.On 25th July 1943,Italian King,Victor Emmanuel III ordered the arrest of Mussolini and formed a new government which entered into secret negotiation with the Allies..

7.Field Marshal Albert Kesselring,the commander of Wehrmacht at Italy evacuated all axis troops from Sicily..it is about some 40000 Germans and 60000 Italians troops safely evacuated across the Straits Of Messina to the mainland..

8.The Allies sustained 22800 casualties,the Axis suffered 165000 casualties,30000 from them was the Germans..

The German Offensive

We knew that the German army won't yield easily after suffered a heavy casualties during the Soviets great counter-offensive..

1.On July 5th 1943,Hitler threw some 20 infantry divisions and 17 armoured divisions making a total of 3000 tanks to recapture Kursk.

2.But,the Soviets commander,Marshal Zhukov already knew the plan,and he had plan to attack the Germans before their offensive..the battle was started with a heavy bombardment by Soviet,then followed by the Germans,the German tank column got entangled in the deep of minefields..Heavy cooperation and having an air superiority,the Soviet Airforce quickly coordinated the attack,the Germans had only advanced 10-30 miles and no large Soviet prisoners was taken.Both forces suffered heavy casualties but the Soviet suffered too much..

3.On 12th July 1943,the Soviet under Zhukov unleashed their counter-attack and took Orel on 5th August 1943..

4.By this time,the Germans had lost 2900 tanks and 70000 men in the Battle Of Kursk probably the largest tank battle in history..

5.Finally,the German offensive was halted,the Soviets advance was accelerated and the German had been drove back to the Dnepr.

Stalingrad and the German retreat

I think I will start to post more frequently,because my facebook and myspace are became too boring,no friend request,no comment,no messages and everything..OK,yesterday I have posted the Operation Barbarossa and today I will introduced the fact of the German retreat during Barbarossa.In the early part of the Nazi invasion of Soviet Union,the Germans seem to accomplish the objective,but on the summer 1942 to February 1943,the Soviet Red Army unleashed their great counter-offensive which strokes the Germans..

1.Stalingrad was a large industrial city,it stretched for 30 miles along the banks of Volga..

2.The Panzer 4th Army diverted to help Kleist attack on Rostov and it was directed towards Stalingrad a fortnight later..

3.Gen Friedrich Paulus,the commander of 6th Army with 330000 troops advance eastward and countered the 62nd Soviet Rifle Division under the command of Gen Vasily Chuikov which encouraged his men to made a determined stands..

4.The Soviets had to supply their troops by boat and barge across the Volga from the other bank.Meanwhile,the German was reinforced by their reserves from their flank cover mainly from the Romanian and Italian divisions..

5.On 19th-20th November 1942,2 Soviets spearhead under the command of Gen Nikolai Nikolayevich,Gen A.M Vasilevsky and Marshal Geory Zhukov made a huge counter-offensive from north and south of the German salient whose tip at Stalingrad.By 26th November 1942,after penetrated deep into the German flanks,the two prongs attack had linked up about 70 miles west of Stalingrad,the encirclement of the remaining 250000 German 6th and 4th Army was completed..

6.Hitler ordered Paulus to "Stand And Fight",the order however doomed the depressed German army..

7.By Mid-December,Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein form a special army to rescue Paulus's forces inside Stalingrad but it was failed due to the fatal order by Hitler..

8.On 31st January 1943,Paulus surrendered with 91000 frozen and starving man and also 24 general with him..

9.Even west of Rostov,January 1942,2 Soviets army under Gen Nikolai Vatutin and the other one was under Gen Filip Golikov have crossed Don River and thrusting to the Donets between Kamensk and Kharkhov..

10.Golikov took Lozoyava on 11th February 1942 and Kharkov 5 days later..

11.Kursk retaken by 3rd Soviet Army under Gen Ivan Chernyakhovsky on February 8th 1943.The Germans had retreat from all of their territory that they had taken in their great invasion on the early part of the campaign.The Caucasus returned to Soviets hand..

The Nazi Invasion Of Soviet Union,1941

Oh my god,there is about less than of 2 weeks before I get my SPM result..hopefully,I get a nice and good result,so that I can further my studies in history..But,today,I wanted to post the Operation Barbarossa,the codename of the Nazi invasion of Soviet Union,its much longer than other post since I just can't simplify the fact but after a night study it back,finally I managed to make it short.So,let it begin..

1.The Germans alotted almost 150 divisions contained a total of about 3000000 men.Among these were 19 Panzer divisions,and it was ranged about 3000 tanks,7000 artillery pieces and some 2500 all types of warplanes..

2.It was the largest invasion forces in history of mankind.The invading forces which is means the Germans can be increased by more than 30 fresh divisions of Finnish and Romanian..

3.For the Soviet,they have 360 divisions,three times number of both tanks and warplanes as the Germans had,but their warplanes were more obsolete..

4.The OKH predicted that the Soviet regime will collapse within 6 months after the invasion..

5.On June 22nd 1941,the Germans offensive launched by three army groups..

a)Northern Forces:Gen Wilhelm Von Leeb,attacking from East Prussia into the Baltic States.

b)Central Forces:Gen Fedor Von Bock plus with Guderian's armoured division and another one from Gen Von Hoth thrusting through Smolensk and Moscow..

c)Southern Forces:Gen Gerd Von Runstedt plus with armoured group from Kleist will advance from Poland into Ukraine against Kiev,coasts of the Black Sea and the Sea Of Azov..

6.Germans army encircled Red Army position and made a large pocket.But,the isolated Red Army fought with a stubborness that the French not shown during the Battle Of France on 1940..

7.The Germans also being hampered by the scorched earth policy adopted by the retreating Soviets..

8.Mid-July,the Wehrmacht had advanced 400 mies and were only 200 miles from Moscow.The OKH proposed Moscow as the main objective,but Hitler wanted the major effect to be directed against Leningrad,through the Ukraine and the Donets Basin into the Caucasus..

9.Winter was approaching,Hitler halted Leeb's northward drive on the Leningrad.He ordered Runstedt and Kleist to press on Dnepr towards Don and the Caucasus,Bock was to resume the advance to Moscow..

10.2nd December 1941,some Germans division penetrated into the suburbs of Moscow.Red Army fought back with more effectively,heavily reinforced by the harsh Russian winter which paralyzed the Germans armoured group and frost bite among the troops..

11.Germans casualties had mounted to levels that were unheard of in the campaign against France and Balkans,by November the Wehrmacht had suffered 730000 casualties..

12.In the south,Kleist's army had already reached Rostov-On-Don(gateway to Caucasus) on 26th November 1941.The Soviet Red Army counter-offensive managed to recaptured Rostov on 28th November 1941..

13.On 6th December 1941,Soviet commander,Marshal Geory Zhukov launched first great counter-offensive which strokes against Bock's right at Elets,Tua,Klin and Kalinin.They were followed by another counter-offensive at Velikie Luki sector and triple convergence towards Smolensk..

14.The German general were filled in ghastly thought of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow..

15.Late in September 1941,Great Britain and United States Of America reinforced Soviet Union with a monthly quantity of supplies included the warplanes,tanks and raw materials.

16.The critical situation on the Eastern front did not deter Hitler from declared war against the Americans on December 1941.

17.March 1942,the Germans still maintaining their hold on the main bastion of front such as the town of Schulusselburg,Novgorod,Ryzhev,Vyazma,Bryansk,Orel,Kursk,Kharkov and Taganrog.