Operation Otto

The 1938 plan was to occupy Austria; the second envisaged an attack on the Soviet Union and was developed from late July 1940.

[1] It was named after the crown prince of Austria-Hungary at the time, Otto von Habsburg.

[2] The High Command of the German Army (OKH) also used Operation Otto as the code name in July 1940 for their original plan for the invasion of the Soviet Union.

With such an overwhelming margin of victory, the plan was not completed, under the assumption that the Soviet Union could never recover.

[3][4][5] Hitler, being haunted by the fate of Napoleon (who had taken Moscow but failed to destroy the Imperial Russian Army), altered the plan by placing less emphasis on the capture of Moscow and more on destroying the Red Army.