Lossberg study


The Lossberg study was a German military plan prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard von Lossberg and developed under Alfred Jodl and Walter Warlimont in the OKW on September 15, 1940. Its northward direction of attack on the Soviet Union was favoured in the Barbarossa Plan, signed by Hitler. Key paragraphs:
"To conduct the operations first it's necessary to decide whether the main strike direction would be northward or southward to the Pripet Marshes
... The advantages of aiming the main strike northward are as follows:
The advantages of aiming the main strike southward are:
Suggestion is to choose the main strike direction northwardly."
"How the cooperation of both main groups eastward from the Pripet Marshes will be organized henceforth and how the ultimate military goal will look like depends at great extent on whether the collapse of Russia after initial German successes takes place or not, and when". Similar arguments for northern direction were made on November 26 in German General Staff project.