Would capturing Moscow actually win the Eastern Front for the Germans? Despite it being the capital, wasn't all the industry already relocated to Asia, and wouldn't they just evacuate Kremlin, continuing to fight on further? Or would this be a definitive blow, allowing Wehrmacht to break the organised defence altogether?
>>1113961
Did Napoleon win after Capturing Moscow?
Germany didn't come within a prayer of taking Moscow so this question is pointless. Would taking the US have allowed Germany to win WW2? Probably. What is the point of such stupid questions, though?
>>1113961
Even if it did, they would still have to deal with the simple reality of a massive US invasion of some 300 divisions and atomic bombs hitting their cities. Germany couldn't win ww2 because Germany couldn't fight the off three other major powers at the same time. Knocking one of the powers out of the conflict temporarily doesn't change the fact that America and Britain will come knocking sooner rather then later.
The thing is, how do you capture Moscow? Chances are it would have put an even bigger dent than not capturing it - see the quagmire that was Stalingrad for a sample of Eastern Front urban combat. Now take into account that Stalingrad was a smaller city, and less important, than Moscow. So if the Germans somehow did capture it, they would have done so inevitably at an incredible cost in both time, manpower and materiel. Something they could ill afford early in the war. And something which I think would be a bigger blow to them, than losing an important rail hub and a symbol would be to the Soviets.
>>1114272
Neither he nor the Commonwealth did, but as >>1114287 pointed out the times have changed between then and... well then. With all the major infrastructure cut, the Leningrad and Stalingrad would be severly weakened, opening the road further east. The question is, would the Reich be able to, or want to push further? Or would capturing Kremlin be the endgame for them.
>>1114379
>Operation Barbarossa was a Nazi propaganda
Ruscuck detected
>>1114539
Are you autisitc? He never said operation barbarossa was fascist propaganda. Get off my board /pol/tard
>>1114535
Good point. At Stalingrad, the Germans had the advantage of having air superiority and forcing the Soviets to move any reinforcements across a vulnerable river. Even so, they still managed to bog down the Germans and hold onto pockets until the end of the battle. Something as large and exposed as Moscow would have been a massive clusterfuck.
