The Fatal Flaw In Germany's Plan To Invade Russia

Our ENTIRE series on Barbarossa is here:    • Operation Barbarossa   EP 1:    • Was Barbarossa Always Doomed to Fail?   EP 2:    • Had Germany Already Lost Before Barbarossa...   EP 3:    • The Fatal Flaw In Germany's Plan To Invade...   Why did Hitler shift the aim of Barbarossa to one of extermination? What intelligence was Stalin receiving that warned him of imminent German attack? How many panzers were mobilised for the invasion of the USSR? Join Al Murray and James Holland for part 4 of this titanic new series on the brutal Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and how mistakes by warmongers on both sides led to untold tragedies on the Eastern Front during WW2. 0:00 - The Road to Barbarossa 3:55 - Was Stalin Provoking Hitler? 6:05 - Hitler’s Russia Gamble 8:54 - Why 1941 Was the Moment 11:42 - Germany’s Supply Crisis 15:37 - Speed at Any Cost 17:35 - The Intelligence Failure 18:21 - The Balkans Problem 20:38 - Too Few Panzers 23:03 - Hitler’s Railway Problem 23:50 - Doubts in the High Command 26:32 - Cooking the Numbers 28:35 - Stalin Prepares for War 29:54 - The Soviet War Machine 32:11 - Stalin’s Terrifying Arsenal 33:44 - The Red Army Explodes 35:04 - The Rise of the T-34 36:39 - Strike Now or Lose Forever 37:02 - Stalin Plans to Attack 38:42 - The Molotov Talks Collapse 40:10 - Hitler Gets Twitchy 40:40 - Stalin Looks to Japan ```