Why Hitler’s Tanks Stopped Before Moscow, 1941

Moscow, October 1941. Government offices are fleeing, the metro has stopped, and the Germans have just destroyed most of the army standing between them and the capital. One of the men behind it was Georg-Hans Reinhardt, a Saxon panzer general whose name few people remember. In this video: how Operation Typhoon trapped hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers at Vyazma and Bryansk, why the German advance stopped about 60 km from the Kremlin, and how Zhukov turned time, mud and reserves into a counteroffensive. Topics covered: Army Group Centre, Third Panzer Group, the Vyazma and Bryansk pockets, Guderian at Oryol, the Podolsk cadets, the rasputitsa, Yakhroma, and the Soviet counterattack of December 1941. Which general should we cover next? Tell me in the comments. Subscribe for more map-based history documentaries. Chapters: 0:00 Moscow in panic, October 1941 0:31 Who was Georg-Hans Reinhardt 1:03 The road to Moscow, summer 1941 1:33 Three Soviet fronts wait 2:01 Operation Typhoon: Bock's plan 2:53 The fist and the fingers 3:20 Guderian strikes from the south 4:17 The northern jaw opens 4:40 Hitler: "the enemy is broken" 5:02 The Soviets face the wrong way 6:06 Reinhardt takes command 6:28 The Bryansk and Vyazma pockets 7:17 The prisoners 7:41 Go around him 8:26 Zhukov buys time 9:13 Fresh divisions from Siberia 10:20 The day of panic in Moscow 11:04 Mozhaisk and Naro-Fominsk 11:53 The arithmetic of Vyazma 12:18 Mud and broken supply 13:41 Last grab at Tula 14:14 The final offensive: Klin 15:31 Yakhroma, 60 km from the Kremlin 16:11 Why it stopped 16:31 The Soviet counteroffensive 17:12 What happened to Reinhardt 17:34 The verdict on Typhoon 18:21 The lesson and your question #OperationTyphoon #WW2 #Moscow1941