Operation Barbarossa: A Good Plan?
Beginning of paper
"When Operation Barbarossa is launched,
the world will hold its breath!"
OPERATION BARBAROSSA: A GOOD PLAN?
On the night of June 22, 1941, more than 3 million German soldiers, 600 000 vehicles and 3350 tanks were amassed along a 2000km front stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Their si ....
Middle of paper
.... we talk
about new soil and territory in Europe
today, we can think primarily only of Russia
and its vassal border states'i
Hitler wanted to exterminate and enslave the 'degenerate' Slavs and he wanted to obliterate their 'Jewish Bolshevist' government before it could turn on him. His 1939 pact with Stalin was only meant to give Germany time to prepare for war.
As soon as Hitler controlled France, he looked east. Insisting that Britain was as good as defeated, he wanted to finish off ....
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