*spits on Soviet corpse*

>*spits on Soviet corpse*
>Die Wehrmacht schickt deiner Familie freundliche Grüße, Russenbastard!

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Fiction
Reality

>Fiction
German was wiping the floor with the USSR before they got bogged down.

no, they didn't get bogged down, they underestimated the soviets, period

when the soviets finally regrouped at moscow in the winter of the same year the germans were on the defensive for the rest of the campaign

That's because they were spread thin and failed to capture the oil fields for their panzers.

the Soviet 1941 counteroffensive didn't have that much of an impact
Germany kept the initiative until Stalingrad, the 1942 summer offensive is proof to that
the major Soviet counteroffensives began in 1943

that's not german doctrine
strong spearhead and concentrated force
the idea was a quick capture of moscow or at least stalingrad, when moscow couldn't be taken they had the oil problem and went south, capture of stalingrad was to ensure their spearhead south would not be flanked, if stalingrad could not be taken they cannot go south

their objectives were quite clear and they failed at every point

Its just like when my dad gets drunk.
Thanks Jow Forums

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plans for the war with the USSR were based on huge underestimations of the Red Army and Soviet will to resist. The German leadership was overconfident due to the quick successes against Poland and France (after Poland was defeated swiftly, Germany was still cautious, but when France fell so quick too, that led to hubris)
also the Red Army had done poorly against Finland in the Winter War
basically the idea was to destroy the Red Army in huge encirclements at the border (which actually succeeded largely) and that that would lead to the collapse of the USSR
the problem was that German intelligence was atrocious and that Soviet manpower and tank numbers were underestimated by something like 50%
the fact that the USSR didn't collapse doomed Germany because it meant it got bogged down in two-front war of attrition again. So both the attack on Moscow 1941 and the drive towards the southern oilfields (1942, after Hitler took over army command directly) were somewhat improvised
perhaps if Germany had went into the war against the USSR with a more cautious/realistic expectation of a long war, enough resources (Ukraine+Caucasus) could've been captured early on to gain the upper hand in the war of attrition, but that's a huge IF, and obviously doesn't consider American and British involvement in the war