Page 288 - The Chief Culprit

Released Gulag prisoners had no time to change
into new uniforms, and were captured by the
Germans in their prison garb at the front.
Entire regiments, divisions, and even corps
were dressed in the black clothes of prisoners.
e Germans called them “Black Divisions.”
Why would Stalin move his prisoners from the
Siberian labor camps to the border and give
them weapons, if not to attack Hitler?

Hitler’s army was totally unprepared for war in the Soviet Union. e German army was not
properly equipped to fight in the frost, snow, and mud of the Russian winter. Even with the most
optimistic scenario, Hitler could not have conquered all of the Soviet Union in one summer.