At an army supply warehouse, the Wehrmacht finds a stock of long johns meant for the French army, warm woollen garments which will be stored the way for future campaigns.
He orders Guderian to swing south towards Kiev, in order to close the pincer around the Russian armies still operating in pockets to the rear of the Wehrmacht.
Despite this athleticism the authorities in Vienna deemed him, at 31 years of age, to be too young to be involved in the initial draft of soldiers into the German Wehrmacht.
The initial German onslaught was brutal in the face of a wildly unprepared Red Army and by the end of September 1941 the Wehrmacht had reached the capital of the Soviet Union.