The situation of Army Group Center on August 8, 1941.
The German motorized divisions are behind the lines resting and the panzer generals want to go for Moscow.
The Red Army is desperately shoving reservists and draftees in front of Moscow.
In June the Red Army was already in the process of adding 42 divisions. With the invasion reservists were quickly formed into divisions as fast as they could be equipped. 22 more divisions in July, 50 in august and then tapering to 33, 20 and 15 per month until December when 52 divisions of the new age classes were finished training.
The German army in the first weeks of August 1941 has a window in weather and Red Army mobilization that won't come again.
