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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (50949)9/8/2006 10:55:47 AM
From: TimF  Respond to of 90947
 
No retreat orders for the Eastern Front (another good candidate for the biggest mistake)
Can't agree. Once he attacked Russia with Britain still fighting, he was dead.


Probably but it might have dragged on for a lot longer if forces in Russia where allowed to retreat in good order rather than getting surrounded, or retreating only in panic. You had operations where the German killed and POW levels each reached 6 figures.