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While operation crusader rages on in North Africa, German forces continue to inch toward Moscow.

After gains North and South of the city, some German officers can even see the spires of the Kremlin in their field glasses. Both German and Soviet forces are putting in everything they have at the last lines that separate the Reich from Red Square. The Germans are under supplied though, and the sharp spearheads meant to pierce and encircle Soviet lines are blunted.

On the other side of the world, the United States tells their naval commanders to get ready for a surprise attack, they're just not sure where. A Japanese naval force has already set sail toward an unexpected target, Hawaii.

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Winter is here? The Germans can see Moscow - WW2 - 118 - November 28, 1941

The German advance has pushed within artillery range of Moscow, but can they reach it- and take it- before the Red Army and the murderously cold weather halt them? Meanwhile in North Africa, both Erwin Rommel and Claude Auchinlek make daring and brilliant moves that save the fight for their sides. A mighty Japanese fleet is now secretly heading for Hawaii to make a surprise attack on American territory while the US worries where in Southeast Asia the Japanese are planning to attack. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join The TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost?s... Follow WW2 day by day on Instagram @ww2_day_by_day -https://www.instagram.com/ww2_day_by_... Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHis... Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Source list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Indy Neidell Edited by: Miki Cackowski Sound design: Marek Kamiński Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory) Colorizations by: Julius Jääskeläinen - https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/ Daniel Weiss Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/ Dememorabilia - https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/ Klimbim https://www.flickr.com/photos/2215569... Mikołaj Uchman Spartacus Olsson Sources: Bundesarchiv IWM E 6661, WPN 298, E 446 Bletchley Park Trust Mil.ru RIA Novosti #303890, #2551 Yad Vashem 4562/3 Picture of Cordell Hull, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound: Rannar Sillard - March Of The Brave 10 Johan Hynynen - Dark Beginning Hakan Eriksson - Epic Adventure Theme 3 Johannes Bornlof - Death And Glory 2 Jo Wandrini - To War! Fabien Tell - Weapon of Choice Fabien Tell - Last Point of Safe Return Johannes Bornlof - The Inspector 4 Andreas Jamsheree - Guilty Shadows 4 Philip Ayers - Trapped in a Maze Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

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JM

I foresee nothing but positive outcomes on the horizon for the Germans at this point.

JM

That is too flippant. This is Patreon, not Youtube, so the comments should be of a higher caliber. Let me just say that I can't imagine the strain soldiers on both sides must be experiencing at this high-water point in the conflict.

Anonymous

Fighting in North Africa seems like such a waste of resources for the Axis. They are at war against the country with the (joint) most powerful navy in the world and they decide to fight on the other side of a large sea.

Anonymous

Good episode, I like how you illuminated the various strategic options and rationales for Japan. That said, the Burma road isn't the only source for China... Hong Kong, which hasn't been occupied is also an entry route for tons of Chinese supplies even though the Japanese theoretically control all of the territory around it.

Kevin Conrad

Love the thumbnail!

Anonymous

Question: if the germans would have captured moscow. Would it be a possible stalingrad or leningrad?

Anonymous

No, because they captured neither Leningrad nor Stalingrad. There probably would have been a second Moscow of 1812.

Eric Johnson

Are we going to hear more about the Marines in China during the is time and how the Japanese dealt with them?

Anonymous

I appreciate that not everything can be cpvered in great detail, but Operation Crusader was a far messier and convulated battle than was described. My Dad in charge of a 2 pd anti tank gun in the South African forces was captured at Sidi Rezegh when overrun by the 15th and 21st panzer groups. Cheers.

Anonymous

With how stupid it seems. If someone said to me that hitler decided to fight in Africa because Churchill said was a lil bitch if he didn’t. Honestly I wouldn’t discount it. It feels so much like a war of ego for them.

Anonymous

Which marines? Before the war there were marines in Beijing and Shanghai, now the Beijing ones are out... and the Shanghai ones are about to have a very bad time.

Anonymous

I wouldn't discount the war in North Africa. If Rommel had won, he would have shut down the Suez Canal putting a serious crimp in fuel from the Middle East and resources from India. If the Germans had seized the Middle Eastern oilfields, it could have fuelled Barbarossa better and reduced the need to go after the oilfields in Caucaus Region. Also it would have protected "the soft underbelly of Europe" from invasion.

Anonymous

But then again, it's a case of "what if?" and Troy is right about ego's being involved.

Anonymous

There is also the political value. Fighting in NAF instead of doing so potentially in Italy made sure Mussolini's regime remained popular and allied with Germany

Anonymous

Who's the secret source Indy? I bet its someone in the Italian government.

Anonymous

Nooooo not Freyburg again

Anonymous

Also please talk about the devil commanders Guerilla war in east Africa from now on

Anonymous

I'd like to know more about that please. A neighbour of mine when I was young was a Canadian who fought at HK, and became a guest of the Emperor for the duration, so I have quite a bit of interest in that bit of history.

Anonymous

Colonel Bonner Feller is a guy worth looking up for a bit of back story on Rommel's thinking and operations. His very, very, detailed reports on the 8th Army gave Rommel a window better than Enigma to know what the Brits were up to. Once The Auk could give orders away from him Rommel was in for a surprise too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonner_Fellers

Anonymous

Uhm, did someone tell Indy and crew, the 22nd November 1941 actually WAS Totensonntag? It's the last Sunday of the church calendar.