wait so that was the real plan? i thought all the althistories where they stopped just east of moscow were like "they're too overextended to go further"... you're telling me the actual real-life politicians of the third reich thought it would be a good idea to be permanently at war on an absurdly long border with the remnants of the soviet union/whoever else in the east?
Yes, the real plan was to stop at the Arkhangelsk-Astrakhan line (or A-A line) as part of Generalplan Ost where they would have that obscenely large fortified frontline while they genocided or enslaved everyone west of it and conducted a perpetual bombing campaign of everything east of it. How that wasn't going to be an incredibly porous border and an insane manpower sink was never really thought through.
This looks really familiar. Oh, wait!
wait so that was the real plan? i thought all the althistories where they stopped just east of moscow were like "they're too overextended to go further"... you're telling me the actual real-life politicians of the third reich thought it would be a good idea to be permanently at war on an absurdly long border with the remnants of the soviet union/whoever else in the east?
Yes, the real plan was to stop at the Arkhangelsk-Astrakhan line (or A-A line) as part of Generalplan Ost where they would have that obscenely large fortified frontline while they genocided or enslaved everyone west of it and conducted a perpetual bombing campaign of everything east of it. How that wasn't going to be an incredibly porous border and an insane manpower sink was never really thought through.