Hitler boasts about Russian losses

8th November 1941: The Red Army has suffered unprecedented casualties - surely they must be finished

Hitler discussing the war situation in October 1941, From right to left - Wilhelm Keitel, Adolf Hitler, Walther von Brauchitsch .

Based on the intelligence with which Nazi Germany had launched Barbarossa they should have been near to victory in Russia. Even if the Red Army had not just collapsed and the Soviet regime with it, as had been hoped, they had…