How Hitler Let Moscow Slip Through His Fingers | Russian Front | War Stories

At one point in the early days of Operation Barbarossa, The German army came within 15km of Moscow. The city had been swiftly prepared for an attack and mass civilian evacuations had taken place, sanctioned or unsanctioned. Why then, could Germany not take the city?

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