I can only confirm the correctness of the story. I lived in Denmark and we were first occupied in Spring 1940 and did have a free press before that. From my point of view so many years later, my comment would be: Germany was prepared for fighting Russia, and Russia did not know that, so German progress was easy and swift. The winter 1941-42 however there was a “climate change”, that put a stop to that at Stalingrad, because the German forces did not have winter uniforms, nor oil to keep the motors going at -50C, where I lived one could walk to Sweden across the Baltic sea. Similar things has happened before during a “climate change” in 1812 when Napoleon went towards Moscow. If you have any plans for the 2030ties there will be an other “climate change” where the temperature will go down
I can only confirm the correctness of the story. I lived in Denmark and we were first occupied in Spring 1940 and did have a free press before that. From my point of view so many years later, my comment would be: Germany was prepared for fighting Russia, and Russia did not know that, so German progress was easy and swift. The winter 1941-42 however there was a “climate change”, that put a stop to that at Stalingrad, because the German forces did not have winter uniforms, nor oil to keep the motors going at -50C, where I lived one could walk to Sweden across the Baltic sea. Similar things has happened before during a “climate change” in 1812 when Napoleon went towards Moscow. If you have any plans for the 2030ties there will be an other “climate change” where the temperature will go down