Basileos, Aemilius:

Having observed you sniping at one another in two thread so far, I would encourage you both to deal with it via private messages. A little decorum here please.

Sarmatian, EMFM:

You'd be better off citing and linking to your sources rather than questioning same -- at least it would take you less time.

Brenus:

My comments on Hitler having lost his nerve and Stalin benefiting from that mistake were part of a rather well researched theory in the book Panzers East. While no such theory can be presumed correct beyond any doubt, the author did make a good case for -- unaltered -- a successful Barbarossa with the removal of Moscow from the Soviet industrial resource base and transportation network -- and that it would have hampered them badly.