How to understand that many people say that the weather saved the Soviet Union when Germany hit Moscow?

Recently, many people have been talking about this Germany, saying that it suddenly snowed when it hit Moscow. Many people have said that it was the weather that saved Germany. Is that really the case? How should we understand this statement? Let's take a brief analysis together.

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1, plus this factor, the weather has always had a great influence on the war. Even today, we still can't overcome the influence of the weather on the war. The weather affects the war only because it is uncontrollable and irresistible. Since ancient times, weather has influenced wars, so meteorology has become an indispensable field in the army. But the weather factor is only one of Germany's failures, because it is not an absolute factor. This is what we need to know.

Hitler was too conceited and misjudged. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in World War II, it ignored the influence of the weather on the war. This neglect stems from Hitler's overconfidence and Hitler's misjudgment. Hitler fought all the way too smoothly before he invaded the Soviet Union. From a military point of view, being too tactful is not necessarily a good thing. After an extraordinary success, there is often a hidden crisis. After winning France in more than 40 days and Poland in a month, Germany won the rapid "blitzkrieg" of tank and armored assault cluster. This success filled Hitler with confidence. He thinks it took only two months to occupy the Soviet Union. In fact, the strong strength of the German 190 division in the early stage was indeed a devastating blow, which made Hitler feel that it was unnecessary to prepare winter supplies. See you in Moscow!

3, bad luck, encounter extremely cold weather, the death toll is huge. 194 1 is particularly cold in winter, and the Moscow region has suffered the most extreme weather in more than 30 years, with the temperature at MINUS 40 degrees. The thin clothes of the Germans can't fight at all in this extremely cold weather. According to incomplete statistics, hundreds of thousands of German soldiers died of severe cold. According to the memories of the Germans later, in extremely cold weather, needless to say, even weapons and equipment could not be used normally. A surviving German tank soldier said that all tanks could not be started and had lost their combat capability. A surviving German artillery said that after the artillery was launched, melted ice and water vapor would enter the barrel and then freeze, making it unusable.

4. The cold area lacks necessary weapons and equipment. At that time, Germany also lacked the defense technology and materials necessary for weapons and equipment in cold areas. On the other hand, the Soviet army, their rifles have warm clothes, anti-freezing lubricating oil and thick cotton-padded clothes, which can also be intuitively reflected from historical materials. What surprised the Germans was the extremely cold weather in Moscow. Later, Hitler ordered cotton-padded clothes, but it was too late and the battle was over before delivery.

The decisive factor is the strong resilience and patience of the Soviet Union. In the face of the overwhelming German attack, they tried their best to stop the German attack, and then dragged the Germans into the cold, and the right time, the right place and the Soviet Union occupied them all.

Even if the Germans enter Moscow, their chances of winning are still slim. Why? Can refer to Napoleon, Napoleon also occupied Moscow, the same extremely cold weather, and finally took the initiative to withdraw from Moscow. Because the Russians burned Moscow themselves, Napoleon's army didn't even have a place to keep out the cold. This is what the Soviet Union will do after withdrawing its troops from Moscow. So Hitler had to prepare winter supplies anyway, which was Hitler's biggest failure. Climate was the main factor, but not the decisive factor, when the German army was defeated at the gates of Moscow.