ABSTRACT
When winter closed in, the German army had still not achieved its objectives. It was an extraordinarily cold winter. A bare 25 per cent of German aircraft were fit to fly at any one moment. The tanks, worn out by the distances they had covered, ground to a halt. The Russians, who as a result of increasing Japanese-American hostility were more
secure on their Far Eastern border, were able to throw fresh and well-trained divisions into the battle for Moscow. By the end of the year German losses totalled 830,403. The Russian army had lost half its original strength of 4,700,000 but relatively speaking the blow to Germany was greater. A quarter of her army had gone-the victorious cream of 1939 to 1941.
