>>17771961>Go read on the Greek invasion before spouting shit you don't undertand.Nope and again, a myth.
First of all, Barbarossa did not have a set starting date in May, the actual Fuhrer Directive No. 21 was that all preparations must be completed by May, so the premise of the whole argument is false to begin with.
Second of all, Barbarossa could not begin earlier because of the late spring thaw which is common in Eastern Europe, the specific problem was that many rivers such as the Bug river were flooded. The late thaw also cause provisional frontline airfields to become wet and thus unuseable.
Wehrmacht divisions were still waiting on trucks to be requisitioned from occupied territories, especially France, to support the invasion.
Mud season in Russia occures twice a year, once in spring and once in Autumn. It's the fundemental reason why Napoleons invasion of Russia occured around the same date, and Operation Bagration, which was also in that region, occured around the same time.
Simply put, Barbarossa was hastly and poorly planned. They didnt account for weather, preparations were not completed, and they catastrophically underestimated Red Army size (they estimated 140 divisions, when in reality it was over 300).
Want a source?
Antony Beevor writes this in his book that is literally called Stalingrad.
And he is just one out of pretty much every historian who agree that Barbarossa could not have started sooner, and that the Greek campaign is mostly parroted by
1. British post-war propaganda that wants to highlight their own contribution.
2. German generals who in their post-war memoir wanted to blame Hitler or Mussolini or just about anything and anyone but themselves so they could look like AAA star generals.
>The capture of Baku was always the goal.It literally wasnt, and you're retarded.
Adolf Hitler literally says:
“If I do not get the oil of Maikop and Grozny, then I must end this war.”
