Barbarossa (82 page)

TEXT OF FUHRER
DIRECTIVE NO. 34.

I am not in agreement with the proposals submitted by the Army for
the prosecution of the war in the East and dated August the 18th.

I therefore order as follows:

1. Of primary importance before the outbreak of winter is not the
capture of Moscow but rather the occupation of the Crimea, of the
industrial and coal-mining area of the Donetz basin, the cutting of
the Russian supply routes from the Caucasian oil fields, and, in the
north, the investment of Leningrad and the establishment of contact
with the Finns.

2. An unusually favourable operational situation has arisen as a
result of our troops reaching the line Gomel-Pochep; this must be
immediately exploited through a concentric operation by the inner
wings of Army Groups South and Centre. The objective must be not
merely to drive the Russian 5th Army back across the Dnieper by means
of a solitary attack by 6th Army, but to destroy the enemy before he
manages to withdraw behind the line the Desna-Konotop-the Sula. This
will give Army Group South the necessary security for crossing the
central Dnieper and for continuing to advance with its centre and
left wing in the direction Rostov-Kharkov.

3. Without consideration of future operations Army Group Centre is
therefore to employ as much force as is necessary for the achievement
of its objective, the destruction of Russian 5th Army, while
occupying such positions on the centre of its own front as will
enable minimum forces to ensure the defeat of enemy attacks in that
area.

4. The capture of the Crimean peninsula is of extreme importance
for safeguarding our oil supplies from Rumania.

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This bibliography has no pretensions to being a complete cata-logue of the primary works on the Eastern campaign. It is a list of
the volumes and material upon which I have relied most heavily and to
which reference is made in the text and the back-matter notes. Very
much more extensive lists will be found in Erickson's The Soviet High
Command and Dallin's German Rule in Russia (the Bibliography being
published as a companion volume to the leader text).

In cases where a book or other source is of only tangential
importance, that is, where it may contain verification of a single
incident or assertion, it is simply identified at the appropriate
page in the back-matter notes and is not included in the general
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The Führer conference transcripts are identified by the date
of the conference (and the hour, where two occur on the same day)
regardless of whether or not they have been reproduced in Dr.
Gilbert's edition.

Documents from the proceedings at Nuremberg are identified by the
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Industry), and NOKW.

Where a source is identified simply by a name and rank (if any),
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with, individuals, which are in my possession. Such items usually
relate to eyewitness descriptions, and are not used to substantiate
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