{"id":777,"date":"2023-04-10T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?p=777"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:57:22","slug":"david-stahel-a-clear-perspective-on-the-eastern-front-part-2-episode-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"David Stahel: A clear perspective on the Eastern Front, part 2\u2014Episode 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">David Stahel reveals the real reason that Operation Barbarossa failed, a conclusion he reached after the deepest research into wehrmacht records.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"95\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/8933057\/embed?v=202301\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Audioboom player\" allow=\"autoplay\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DavidStahel_300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Black and white portrait of David Stahel\" class=\"wp-image-753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DavidStahel_300x300.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DavidStahel_300x300.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DavidStahel_300x300.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">Author of&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">Operation Barbarossa and Germany&#8217;s Defeat in the East,&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">as well as several other books on the Second World War in the east, he&#8217;s a Senior Lecturer in European History at the Universit<\/span><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">y of&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">New South Wales in Canberra, Australia. He joins Beyond Barbarossa for an eye-opening conversation. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\"><strong>David Stahel&#8217;s books:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">Operation Barbarossa and Germany&#8217;s Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">Kiev 1941: Hitler&#8217;s Battle for Supremacy in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">Operation Typhoon: Hitler&#8217;s March on Moscow, October 1941.&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/StahelsBooks-med.jpg?resize=640%2C612&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-780\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0449393675200127;width:295px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/StahelsBooks-med.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/StahelsBooks-med.jpg?resize=300%2C287&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/StahelsBooks-med.jpg?resize=768%2C735&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/StahelsBooks-med.jpg?resize=850%2C813&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/StahelsBooks-med.jpg?resize=600%2C574&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">The Battle for Moscow.<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">&nbsp;Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">Retreat from Moscow: A new history of Germany&#8217;s winter campaign, 1941\u20131942.&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">New York: Picador, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">Hitler&#8217;s Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded.<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">&nbsp;Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;May 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\"><strong>As editor:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">With Alex J. Kay and Jeff Rutherford:&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization.&nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">University of Rochester Press, 2012.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">Joining Hitler&#8217;s Crusade: European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.&nbsp;With Alex J. Kay:&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box;\">Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe<\/em><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; white-space: normal;\">With Craig W.H. Luther and R. L. 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