ABSTRACT
The strain on the armoured and motorized material had been altogether too great; repair facilities had been totally inadequate, and to this must be added a shortage of every category of supplies. The fact is that the whole eastern campaign was in reality but another manifestation of Adolf Hitler’s strategy of the impossible. The enduring violation of right which was personified in Hitler, to which so many of his comrades closed their eyes, was ever before his own, and caused him to revolt against a regime which was a denial of all that was best in the spiritual inheritance both of Germany and of the West. Hitler himself seems to have believed quite seriously that if he could have had six more days of good weather, the victory would have been his, but the reign of illusion had already begun. Meanwhile Hitler continued his obstinate refusal to face the facts.
