James Holland

This is Army Group Center.

Army Group North is thrust up into the Baltic.

It's all going swimmingly well.

But then, the next several months, they barely go 100 miles.

And that's because they're running out of steam.

And the 16th Panzer Division, for example, by the time it's taken Smolensk, involved in taking Smolensk on the 15th of July 1941, the following day, it's got 16 tanks left.

16.

Out of... It should have 180. So... It's just being attributed. They can't sustain it. And they can't sustain it because as the Russians fall back, as the Soviet Red Army falls back, they do their own scorched earth policy. They also discover that the railway line is kind of a different loading gauge, so they've got to change it. So it's slightly the Russian...

Out of... It should have 180. So... It's just being attributed. They can't sustain it. And they can't sustain it because as the Russians fall back, as the Soviet Red Army falls back, they do their own scorched earth policy. They also discover that the railway line is kind of a different loading gauge, so they've got to change it. So it's slightly the Russian...

Out of... It should have 180. So... It's just being attributed. They can't sustain it. And they can't sustain it because as the Russians fall back, as the Soviet Red Army falls back, they do their own scorched earth policy. They also discover that the railway line is kind of a different loading gauge, so they've got to change it. So it's slightly the Russian...

Out of... It should have 180.

So...

It's just being attributed.

They can't sustain it.

And they can't sustain it because as the Russians fall back, as the Soviet Red Army falls back, they do their own scorched earth policy.

They also discover that the railway line is kind of a different loading gauge, so they've got to change it.

So it's slightly the Russian...

Loading gauge is slightly wider, so every single mile, every yard, every foot, every meter that they're capturing of Russian railway has to be moved a couple of inches to the left to make it fit the German Kriegsloch in the standard locomotive of the Reichsbahn.

Loading gauges are slightly wider, so every single mile, every yard, every foot, every meter that they're capturing of Russian railway has to be moved a couple of inches to the left to make it fit the German Kriegsloch in the standard locomotive of the Reichsbahn. Just imagine what that's like.

Loading gauges are slightly wider, so every single mile, every yard, every foot, every meter that they're capturing of Russian railway has to be moved a couple of inches to the left to make it fit the German Kriegsloch in the standard locomotive of the Reichsbahn. Just imagine what that's like.