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Originally posted by MRM
I go to sleep and you complain because I haven't responded? I am honored that Tabs has deigned to call me out. Here are the answers:
1) Stalin was able to save Moscow by denuding the Japanese front of troops and moving them by rail to the German front in one of the great logistical achievements of history. He was able to take this step because he had intelligence inside the Japanese HQ that confirmed the Japanese were not going to attack the Russians (yes, Sorge). This, combined with the early and hard winter gave Stalin what he needed to turn the tide.
2) That was a good one and kind of ironic. Heydrich organized four large SS Einsatz groups (creatively named groups A,B,C, and D) to operate inside captured Soviet territory. They had orders to kill all enemies of the state, specifically including the political commisars the communists who were supposed to be directing the Red Army, and who were responsible for screwing everything up. Freed from political control the Soviet armies performed better.
2A) Yes, Joe is correct, I wasn't sure which one you were looking for specifically.
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Boy oh Boy..I can tell you, you ain't never gona be one of my life lines...and U were still on this Board when I posted the Thread...your handle was listed at the bottm.
Anyway..Sorge was a German Reporter in the German Embassy in Toyko not in the Japanese High Command.
Sorge was caught by the Japanese for spying and executed in 1944, and was not recalled by Stalin and executed...how dumb.
Now EXACTLY how were those Political Commisars that the Einstaz Gruppen were eliminating supposed to be directing the Red Army from behind German Lines??? Through out the war there were Political Officers with the Red Army. U forget that the other job the Einstatz Gruppen was supposed to perform was the elimination of the Jews in German held territory. Actually that was there primary task, just to keep it clear.