World War Two

Season 0, Episode 92

Episode Title: Operation Barbarossa - The German Plans to Lose the War

Air Date: 2020-07-21

Overview:

The planning for Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, took nearly a year and went through a variety of scenarios. The basic plan was finalized in December 1940, and that month General Friedrich Paulus ran a series of war games to test its feasibility. Today we'll look at his conclusions.