Why do people claim that Operation Barbarossa was somehow a German

>>1553260
This might come as a shock to you, but armies are supposed to be able to function without the head of state micromanaging them.

>>1553269
They were told to hold their fire.

>>1553260
>DUDE I INTENTIONALLY ALLOWED THEM TO COME CLOSE TO MY CAPITAL HUEHUHEUHEUHEUHE

>>1553270
NKO directive #2, calling for a general counterattack, was issued around 7:15 AM on June 22nd.

>>1553260
Not to forget they were all fighting Russians-

>>1553273
By the time Stalin took matter seriously Germans stared getting pushed back.

>>1553317
>Stalin didn't take matters seriously till Stalingrad

>>1553260
>Advance hundreds of miles in the spawn of a month

You have to admit that's pretty impressive.

>>1553322
By the time that spastic fuck did anything, Germans were closing Kiev.

>>1553450
Did you intend to say "losing kiev", "closing in on Kiev" or do I just lack a good enough understanding of English?

>>1553464
Closing as in closing something.

Germans liked to attack from every side, they tried it with Moscow too.

>>1553467
Isn't that an Anglo strategy?
Like the Gallipoli and Dodecanese campaigns which both failed pathetically and proves Churchill was just a glorified cheerleader given access to grand strategy.

>>1553479
Both campaigns aiming to open up secondary frontiers.

>>1553260
Well, the Germans did mobilize the biggest offensive army in history. They lost of course, but that's a German thing to do.