James Holland

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.

Just imagine what that's like.

And also, Soviet trains are bigger, so they can take more water, which means the water stops in between are... Fewer and far between. So they have to, the Germans, when they come in their trains, their Kriegsloch are smaller. So they have to be re-watered more often and re-culled more often.

And also, Soviet trains are bigger, so they can take more water, which means the water stops in between are... Fewer and far between. So they have to, the Germans, when they come in their trains, their Kriegsloch are smaller. So they have to be re-watered more often and re-culled more often.

And also, Soviet trains are bigger, so they can take more water, which means the water stops in between are... Fewer and far between. So they have to, the Germans, when they come in their trains, their Kriegsloch are smaller. So they have to be re-watered more often and re-culled more often.

And also, Soviet trains are bigger, so they can take more water, which means the water stops in between are...

Fewer and far between.

So they have to, the Germans, when they come in their trains, their Kriegsloch are smaller.

So they have to be re-watered more often and re-culled more often.

So they have to, I mean, it's absolutely boggling just how complicated it is and how badly planned it is because they haven't reckoned on this. They're having to kind of think on their feet.

So they have to, I mean, it's absolutely boggling just how complicated it is and how badly planned it is because they haven't reckoned on this. They're having to kind of think on their feet.

So they have to, I mean, it's absolutely boggling just how complicated it is and how badly planned it is because they haven't reckoned on this. They're having to kind of think on their feet.

So they have to, I mean, it's absolutely boggling just how complicated it is and how badly planned it is because they haven't reckoned on this.

They're having to kind of think on their feet.

Well, my own view is that they should never have got close, you know.

Well, my own view is that they should never have got close, you know. Red Army has plenty of men to be able to see off anything that the Germans can do. The capture of Kiev, for example, in September 1941 was a catastrophe for the Soviet Union. It should never have happened. I mean, Zhukov is saying to Stalin, we've got to pull back across the Dnieper.

Well, my own view is that they should never have got close, you know. Red Army has plenty of men to be able to see off anything that the Germans can do. The capture of Kiev, for example, in September 1941 was a catastrophe for the Soviet Union. It should never have happened. I mean, Zhukov is saying to Stalin, we've got to pull back across the Dnieper.

Well, my own view is that they should never have got close, you know. Red Army has plenty of men to be able to see off anything that the Germans can do. The capture of Kiev, for example, in September 1941 was a catastrophe for the Soviet Union. It should never have happened. I mean, Zhukov is saying to Stalin, we've got to pull back across the Dnieper.

Red Army has plenty of men to be able to see off anything that the Germans can do.

The capture of Kiev, for example, in September 1941 was a catastrophe for the Soviet Union.