099 - Barbarossa: a Wehrmacht Soap Opera - WW2 - July 18 1941

by Panzer
South!
No, no, you go South!
Right.
No, you were going North.
Just listen, you're going North.
I told you guys, you guys are going East!
No, East!
East!
You're going East.
Look you...
Not south, your'e going North!
Look, everybody, everybody just go!
Just GO!
Okay?
July 18, 1941
The German panzer spearheads have blasted
their way into the Soviet Union.
They’ve taken thousands of square miles of territory and finished phase one of their offensive.
So where will they go in the next phase?
Um… they don’t know… maybe, I dunno, north?
Or not.
Maybe Moscow?
Perhaps they need unity of command.
I’m Indy Neidell; this is World War Two.
Last week, Germany’s Army Group Center restarted its offensive and by the end of the week had
begun the Battle for Smolensk.
The Germans were also advancing in the north and the south, while the Soviets restructured
their command.
The Allies were advancing too, in Syria against the Vichy French, but that fight is now coming
to an end.
At 0900 July 12th, Vichy representatives arrive at the British outpost on the Haifa Road.
They are taken by Allied reps to Acre for negotiations.
Vichy French General Henri Dentz does not go in person, sending his second in command,
General de Verdillac.
The Allies are represented by General Henry Wilson, Commodore L.O.
Brown, Captain J.A.V.
Morse and General Catroux of the FF, who’s been condemned to death by the Vichy for treason.
The terms of the armistice are- the Allies will occupy Syria and Lebanon for the duration
of the war and take over all war materiel, utilities, harbors, and airfields in the region.