History – the panicky woman is chimerical and demure. Sometimes such speeches are thrown in that are not included in the daily rational dimensions. And for an hour it is silently crawling with a beaten path of insured algorithms. But in all these outbursts - although Hegel has spoken and said that, having said, history begins besides the fact that it does not begin anything - it is necessary to master and acquire historical evidence.
Otzhe: hour dii – zhovten 1940 fate. Mіstse diї – Balkans. Participants in the action - first Italy and Greece, then - mainly and new European participants in the Other World War. Inheritance... Ale about inheritance (more precisely, inheritance) this year.
In the meantime, start a story about this story from the summer of 1940.
...On the 10th of June 1940, Italy was in a position to quickly defeat the Third Reich on the European fronts. Vaughn voiced the war of Great Britain and France; Mussolini, it seems, was aware that now his army could easily conquer all other territories and regions, bringing them to the “great Mediterranean empire”,. Not everything worked out for me, as I had guessed. From France, the two minds behind the truce came up with a couple of nice clothes, but from Britain it turned out better.
I'll guess. that today's Italy is small only with low colonies - Libya, Somalia and Eritrea in Africa, the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea - and the occupied lands - Abyssinia (zagharban in 1935-36 rocks). Libya was at the junction with the nominally independent Egypt, where the British forces and fleet were stationed. So already on the 11th of August the British began attacks on the Italian forces, and on the 14th of August the forts of Capuzzo and Maddalena were buried. During the first three months of the war, the Italians spent 3,500 “bagnets” killed, wounded and captured, and the British - less than 150. Tse bula ganba. Italy really strengthened its army in Libya, they were supported by Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. They destroyed their army on the 13th spring, and on the 16th spring they occupied Sidi-Barrani and took up defense. The British advanced to Mersa Matruh, as a result of which a gap was created between them and the Italians at 80 miles, active military operations began.
Successful for Italy were the battles of the Converging Africa. At the beginning of the linden tree in 1940, the Italians began to move from Ethiopia into Sudan and Kenya. From Sudan they took the place of Kassala, having spent over 500 " Lipnya managed to acquire part of Kenya, and Serpnya managed to acquire part of British Somalia.. On which the Italians stopped and went on the defensive: the isolated troops, who were aware of the shortage of ammunition, ammunition and spare parts for military equipment, the General Staff ordered the watch to defeat the British Empire. Protea did not intend to surrender, but moreover: in the fall of 1940, 6 infantry brigades were formed from Africans in Kenya (2 of them with armored vehicles), and two Indian infantry brigades were transferred to Sudan. In addition to this, partisans began to actively operate in Eritrea and Abyssinia, who received the British's armor and ammunition..
In these circumstances, Mussolina was likely to unleash a small possible war between the Other World, so that, firstly, he could rehabilitate his army, or, in another way, withdraw British forces from Africa, thirdly,. Greece was targeted. Zagarbana Albania, located on the other side of the Ionian Sea not far from Italy, is a small base for the development of operations. On June 15, 1940, in Rome, in front of the army command, they discussed a plan to attack Greece. The purpose of the operation was a quick breakthrough at the front, the defeat of the Greek army and the burying of the troops of Epirus for the further collapse of Athens and Thessaloniki. At the same time, an amphibious landing on the island of Corfu was underway, and heavy aviation from both Italy and Albania was unable to sustain the attack, paralyzing and demoralizing the Greek army.. The fighting began on the 28th (\! \; the one to reprove, only vimatyukavsya). In addition to this military success, the marshals became aware of a political crisis in Greece, ruled by the authoritarian dictator Ioannis Metaxas. The operation involved two army corps (one division), over 160 tanks, at least 700 tanks and 380 infantry.. 54 great ships and 34 submarine ships are supported from the seas.
In terms of numbers, the Greek troops on the border with Albania were three times smaller. 2 infantry divisions, 2 infantry brigades, a number of nearby infantry battalions and 6 Girsky batteries with 20 tanks, 36 tanks and 220 tanks. Also, on the first day, a cordon of transitions began, and the Greeks quickly pulled up 5 infantry divisions and a cavalry division and transferred the war to the territory of Albania. There was only 1 leaf fall. Another blow buv zavdaniya 14 leaf fall. On the 21st of leaf fall, the Italians began their advance and tried to take control of the defense line, but they did not succeed, and the approach was far away..
After advancing on the Italian-Greek front, the British forces carried out a major attack on the Libyan front with insignificant forces, and then the 7th Armored Division withdrew. 16th century The Italians without a fight deprived Es-Sallum, Halfaya and the entire Lance of forts built on the borders of the Libyan plateau. On September 22, 1941, the British took Tobruk at minimal expense. So the plan for the Gratian army to attack the Nile Delta and the Suez Canal failed. And at the beginning of 1941, African partisan units completely cleared the southern part of Kenya from the Italian troops..
Therefore, let us take a closer look at the dynamics of the situation both in the Balkan and in the African theaters of military operations of fascist Italy. Golovnya, as it was on me, understood: the Italian army sacrificed earnestly - not for technology, but for resilience and loyalty - not only to the Greeks and British, but to the Africans. Even though, as other forces showed, they could have fought badly under the German commands... And besides the unit, and without anything else, the bars of the Italian moldings in the continental Africa were trimming right up to the end of 1943! Prote in other parts of the “new Roman Empire” will not be. The defeats of the Italians could lead not only to the loss of Albania and Libya, but also to the fall of the Duce and the ruin of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Empire. The Third Reich simply hesitated to give emergency military-political assistance to Italy. But it wasn't easy.
Both Germany and its allies (Bulgaria, Ugorshchina, and Italy) had a chance to fight through Yugoslavia and Greece in 1941, and the other half had a landing on the island of Crete.. Germany deployed 680 thousand “bagnets”, 1200 tanks, 700 aircraft to this operation; As a result, there was not less physical labor for the soldiers, but also a significant waste of the motor resources of tanks and aircraft assigned to Operation Barbarossa against the USSR. The Afrika Korps of Lieutenant General (future Field Marshal) Rommel involved significantly modest forces. There were 350 tanks there, most importantly Pz III and Pz IV, the remaining modifications also originally intended for the Barbarossi.. And smut, the date of invasion to the USSR was transferred from 15 rubles to 22 rubles.
And this means that the hour of the offensive has changed to 38 days of short nights and sunny, warm weather, until autumn rains and early snow. It would be possible to truly calmly march on Moscow, Stalingrad and Leningrad in summer one-buildings.
Before the Wehrmacht, after the defeat of the First Strategic Echelon of the Red Army on the Dnieper, another strategic echelon was not delivered. 77 divisions with thousands (at least 7-8) tanks, which became its basis, began to move from the clay districts.
The Third Reich will always have great problems with the bedroom. Marches to the Wehrmacht in the Balkans and over thousands of airmen were killed. There wouldn’t have been so many marches and wasted motor resources - it would have reached Moscow without a hitch.
And what happened was that Rommel, with his talents, had won over the tank corps on the convergent front from the same divisions that raided the Sahara?
In addition, over 38 days, over 350 T-34s and KVs, hundreds of MiG-3s, hundreds of Yak-1s, hundreds of Pe-2s were produced (additional production of combat aircraft increased to 40 units). I know that Pokrishkin wrote that the regiment was serving (on the border with Rumunia), and in the middle of the grass they began reassigning to the MiG-3. Pokrishkin himself, until the 22nd cherub, quickly fell ill this year, some fell well, most not so kindly, but still got drunk. Another time I had a chance to fight on I-16... The future Marshal Moskalenko: at the beginning of the battle, he only received documents for the formation of the 1st anti-tank artillery brigade of the RGK. The formation of 9 more such brigades began overnight. Moskalenko was inspired to formulate and train his brigade. The other brigades were heavier, but more than half of them took part in the battles of the Red Army in 1941.
Nareshti, at the grassroots of 1941, under the guise of “great initial gatherings,” a mobilization of 800 thousand “bagnets” was carried out.
And the Fuhrer was relieved of everything by his Italian colleague, who launched a “Greek campaign” instead of sending reserves to Deep Africa.
Utim, no less. We haven’t heard yet about the Cretan operation (20-31 May 1941), which completed the defeat of Greece, caused great losses to the British, and suddenly virtually “erased” the elite German division (we are talking about the 7th. Zagalom killed more than 6,000 “bagnets” out of 22,000 participants in the operation. The Luftwaffe spent 147 flights destroyed and 73 (mostly transport) flights as a result of accidents during the landing of the 5th Air Force Division on the destruction of airfields.
At the end of 1941, Hitler and the commander of the paratroopers, Lieutenant General Kurt Student, spoke with the commander of the paratroopers, declaring that “the hour of paratroopers is past” and categorically defended the victorious airborne units in great operations..
It was therefore inevitable that the island of Malta, a key point in the British communication between Gibraltar and Alexandria, was buried, and the landing of one or two parachute divisions at the Crescent Spring of 1941. One thing has become clear: the participants of any “weight of evil” will lay down one pig and unbearably follow the slaughterhouse plans of their colleagues. It may also be that a participant in one “weight” plays a part in another “weight”; And one hundred percent “normal” powers remember that even complex geopolitical alignments may have no room for maneuver.