在1941年10月份，德军中央集团军群近200万人发动了台风行动，在战役的第一阶段，德军成功在维亚济马和布良斯克地区包围了超过65万苏军，但之后在继续进攻莫斯科的时候德军却被苏军给挡了下来，其中苏联的严寒给德军造成了很大的伤害，德军在四个月的战斗减员不过20万人，但是冻死冻伤者高达30万人，这实在是太可怕了。
莫斯科战役
On June 22, 1941, Germany, together with Romania, Hungary, Italy, and Finland, formed an army of 5.5 million men and attacked the Soviet Union in four directions. Among them, the German army was divided into three army groups, namely Army Group North, Army Group Center and Army Group South, with 4,900 aircraft, 3,500 tanks and 190 warships.
At the beginning of Barbarossa, the German offensive plan was very smooth, even a little unbelievable, the German Army Group Center occupied Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in just two weeks, and surrounded and annihilated more than 300,000 Soviet troops on the Western Front, and then in the Smolensk and Kiev regions, the Germans managed to eliminate more than 1 million Soviet troops. At this time, the enemies on the northern and southern flanks of the German army had been cleared, and all that remained was to take Moscow.
At the beginning of October 1941, Hitler transferred part of the armored forces of Army Group South and Army Group North to Army Group Center, which at this time could be said to be strong, with three infantry armies, three armored groups, a total of 79 divisions, and a total strength of 1.93 million people, in addition to the German army with 14,000 artillery pieces and 1,800 tanks.
The German army launched an offensive in early October, and the offensive was quite smooth at the beginning, although the rainy season in the Soviet Union caused great losses to the German mechanized troops, but the German army still surrounded the Soviet army in October through a pincer offensive of more than 700,000 people, and captured more than 650,000 people.
But after November, the most terrible enemy of the German army - General Winter arrived, the weather in the Moscow area plummeted in November, the terrible thing was that the German army did not prepare warm clothing, the severe cold made the German combat effectiveness drop greatly, many German troops were frozen to death and frostbite, and the entire palms and soles of the feet were frozen off not a few, and finally the Soviet army took advantage of the double difficulties faced by the German army and the lack of logistics, and carried out a counteroffensive in December and early January, and repelled the German army by 200-300 kilometers.
德军伤亡情况
If we only count the German combat attrition from October to January, the German casualties are actually not as bad as everyone thinks, and even similar to the German casualties in the French campaign. In October, the Germans lost 13,669 killed, 46,645 wounded, and 2,556 missing, resulting in a total of 62,870 combat losses. In November, the Germans lost 9,346 killed, 34,771 wounded, and 1,957 missing, making a total of 46,074 combat losses.
In December, the German army moved to the strategic defensive stage, and in the whole of December, the German army lost 8,131 people, 30,560 wounded, and 3,128 missing, a total of 41,819 people, and in January, the German army lost 10,460 people, 35,935 wounded, 3,526 missing, and a total of 49,921 combat attrition. The overall combat attrition of the German army in the Battle of Moscow did not exceed 200,000, of which the number of casualties was about 50,000, and the casualties were not serious, but the impact of the severe cold on the German army was too great.
After the arrival of winter in Moscow in November, the situation of the German army became very bad, because the logistics supply line was too far away, the German army could only choose to give priority to the transportation of more important weapons and ammunition and other materials, all the cold equipment was piled up at the railway station in Warsaw could not be transported, the severe cold caused the German non-combat death toll of more than 100,000, another 200,000 people were frostbitten or sick, and countless weapons and equipment could not be used because of the severe cold.