The counterattack by Soviet General Zhukov on December 5th, 1941 dealt a heavy blow to the German army. The freezing cold and snowfall from 1941 to 1942 scattered corpses across the battlefields of the Winter War.

 The poor equipment and lack of winter clothing of the German army ultimately proved fatal for the German army in the Battle of Moscow. The counterattack by Soviet General Zhukov on December 5th dealt a heavy blow to the German army. The battlefields of the 1941-1942 Winter War were strewn with bodies. In December 1941, the freezing cold and snowfall forced the German soldiers to retreat.

　　On June 22, 1941, they invaded the Soviet Union. In October 1941, Hitler ordered the German army to advance on Moscow. The first snow fell on October 7, and it quickly melted, turning the roads and open spaces into quagmires.After the battle in the mud, a severe frost prevented further advances. On the night of October 15, the German army broke through the main line of defense in Moscow. On October 20, they smashed the Soviet army's front line. In November 1941, the terrible Russian winter began, with temperatures as low as -40 degrees. The German army, which was completely unprepared for winter warfare, suffered heavy losses due to frostbite. They were also plagued by counterattacks from the Soviet army, which had been deployed from the Far East. The German army's offensive finally collapsed at a point 35 to 40 km from the capital, Moscow. The German front in Moscow was also forced to retreat in the north and south. On December 19, 1941, Hitler dismissed General von Brauchitsch and took personal command of the Wehrmacht.

　　The fighting in Russia was carried out with a cruelty never seen before on either side. Many Russian prisoners of war died in transit. Hitler, among other things, ordered that the political commissars of the Communist Party, who were always present in Russian units, be shot on the spot. In the occupied territories, the German civilian authorities treated the Russians badly. According to the official daily casualty report of the Wehrmacht in January 1942, between October 1, 1941 and January 10, 1942, the total number of dead, wounded and missing in the entire German Central Army was 35,757, wounded 128,716, and missing 9,721. The number of Soviet casualties from October 1941 to January 1942 is said to be 653,924.