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Episode 484 Hitler Clean's House.

Last time on December 18, 1941, just 179 days after Operation Barbarossa had started,

Army Group Center in the throes of disintegration had been ordered to halt its retreat and turn and face the enemy.

It would stand fast and wait for reinforcements,

and when spring came, the march back to Moscow would commence.

But the greatest threat to the men of Army Group Central back to Moscow would commence.

But the greatest threat to the men of Army Group Center at the moment was not the Russians,

it was the cold.

While Defura considered himself as someone who was good at thinking off the cuff, not only surviving a crisis, but thriving, despite one.

Von Brautich, the now former Army CNC, was not the only victim of Barbarossa's failures.

Field Marshal Gerd von Runsted, commander of Army Group South, had wanted to stop his

advance in late September, just after the capture of Kiev, after all his

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