Why did he invade Russia?

Why did he invade Russia?

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>muh blitzkrieg meme

No cap fr fr

You make irrational decisions when you are high on meth.

Lebensraum

He and many of the OKW believed that Russia was so weak from Communist misrule that they needed only to 'kick in the door' with Barbarossa and they would collapse, which would give them the empire they'd been hankering for since the end of the 19th century.

Steiner

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WW2 was written by hacks.
>six gorillion killed in the middle of the war
>contrived American superweapon because the writers didn’t know how to handle an invasion of the japanese islands
>president has polio for cheap drama
>South America is useless again

preventive strike before the invasion

he wanted to decommunize russia

Los ultimos dias de Hitler.

I can’t help but think of the living spaces commercial whenever I see that word

Honest answer is he thought Russia would fold in no time and conquering the east was Germanys destiny

It’s incredibly ironic that they were closer to achieving that goal in WW1, and might have actually succeeded had they just held off on restarting unrestricted submarine warfare for a few more months until the october revolution

Preemptive strike. Russia was preparing to attack Europe in 1943/44 aided by massive globohomo arms shipments from the US.

They already had about 20. 000 tanks sitting at the border in 1941. An absolutely unheard number at that time.

Look what happening in Ukraine. He was a prophet and allies killed the wrong dictator. If russians wont get genocided in 21st century then mankind is finished

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not too bright

Krebs meeting with the Soviets was a great scene, shame it was left out of the final cut.

Read Ostkrieg

Because fuck russians.

the economy was largely building for the war, so food shortages were coming up. also, they'd plundered western europe and needed more.