74th anniversary this week of Hitler's invasion of Russia

[whitehall]

If there is any question of Hitler's lack of mental stability it was the double cross of his friend and ally Joe Stalin and his invasion of Russia. Things went pretty well for the Germans at first. They rounded up about about a million Russian soldiers, most of whom never made it back to Russia from German slave labor camps after the war. The Germans also found a rich supply of Jews to try out their new machine guns on. By the time the Japanese planes were strafing Pearl Harbor the once great German army was starving and turning black from frostbite.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

75th anniversary - Operation Barbarossa began on June 22nd 1941.

And Stalin was neither Hitler’s ‘friend’ nor ‘ally’ – the brutal invasion of the Soviet Union is proof of that.

Indeed, Hitler hated communism, consistent with rightwing fascism in general, and launched the invasion with the intent to rid the world of ‘Bolshevism.’

“Although Adolf Hitler had congratulated himself on the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of 1939 as a matter of expediency, anti-Bolshevism had remained his most profound emotional conviction as World War II entered its second year. Following the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states and of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina in June 1940, which put Soviet forces in proximity to the Romanian oil fields on which Germany depended, Hitler’s long-standing interest in overthrowing the Soviet regime was heightened. He became acutely suspicious of the intentions of the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, and he began to feel that he could not afford to wait to complete the subjugation of western Europe, as he had originally planned, before dealing with the Soviet Union.”

Operation Barbarossa | European history

 

[Unkotare]

If there is any question of Hitler's lack of mental stability it was the double cross of his friend and ally Joe Stalin and his invasion of Russia. Things went pretty well for the Germans at first. They rounded up about about a million Russian soldiers, most of whom never made it back to Russia from German slave labor camps after the war. The Germans also found a rich supply of Jews to try out their new machine guns on. By the time the Japanese planes were strafing Pearl Harbor the once great German army was starving and turning black from frostbite.

Hitler was a one-nut little nutcase, and Stalin was a paranoid idiot.

 

[whitehall]

Anybody who thinks Hitler's invasion of Russia was intended to "rid the world of Bolshevism" is historically impaired. Hitler thought he could easily conquer Russia because the Russians would welcome the "Nationalist Socialist" German liberators and instantly renounce Bolshevism. It didn't happen that way but the Germans got to rid the world of about half a million Russian Jews before they froze to death outside Moscow.

 

[Syriusly]

Anybody who thinks Hitler's invasion of Russia was intended to "rid the world of Bolshevism" is historically impaired. Hitler thought he could easily conquer Russia because the Russians would welcome the "Nationalist Socialist" German liberators and instantly renounce Bolshevism. It didn't happen that way but the Germans got to rid the world of about half a million Russian Jews before they froze to death outside Moscow.

Anyone who thinks that Stalin and Hitler were ever 'friends' is historically impaired. They were allies for a very brief period while they divided up Poland- but neither ever trusted or liked the other.

It was a stunning example of Hitler's stupidity to attack, but like many of Hitler's insane moment, for a time it looked brilliant- the Soviet Armed forces officer corp had been decimated by Stalin, and had no effective leaders on the Western front. But once again the Russian winter- and the long supply lines took their toll on the invaders of Russia- and gave the Soviets enough time to regroup- and rearm- with the aid of the West.

Then the Soviets started the long bloody battle back to Germany- taking on the major portion of the Germany armor bleeding the Nazi's dry.

 

[Sunni Man]

Hitler valiantly tried to eradicate the jewish strangle hold on Europe and Russia.

Unfortunately he failed and the result is JewYork and Israel. .......

 

[eagle7_31]

If there is any question of Hitler's lack of mental stability it was the double cross of his friend and ally Joe Stalin and his invasion of Russia. Things went pretty well for the Germans at first. They rounded up about about a million Russian soldiers, most of whom never made it back to Russia from German slave labor camps after the war. The Germans also found a rich supply of Jews to try out their new machine guns on. By the time the Japanese planes were strafing Pearl Harbor the once great German army was starving and turning black from frostbite.

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[Picaro]

If there is any question of Hitler's lack of mental stability it was the double cross of his friend and ally Joe Stalin and his invasion of Russia. Things went pretty well for the Germans at first. They rounded up about about a million Russian soldiers, most of whom never made it back to Russia from German slave labor camps after the war. The Germans also found a rich supply of Jews to try out their new machine guns on. By the time the Japanese planes were strafing Pearl Harbor the once great German army was starving and turning black from frostbite.

Blog: Seventy-five years after Barbarossa

The two greatest evils in history at war,

Sociopaths and murderers understand each other perfectly, which is why they were so intent on exterminating each other.

 

[Mr Natural]

Hitler valiantly tried to eradicate the jewish strangle hold on Europe and Russia.

Unfortunately he failed and the result is JewYork and Israel. .......

New York, the Center of the Universe and single most important place in the world.

And Israel, the only civilized country in the Middle East.

 

[Unkotare]

If there is any question of Hitler's lack of mental stability it was the double cross of his friend and ally Joe Stalin and his invasion of Russia. Things went pretty well for the Germans at first. They rounded up about about a million Russian soldiers, most of whom never made it back to Russia from German slave labor camps after the war. The Germans also found a rich supply of Jews to try out their new machine guns on. By the time the Japanese planes were strafing Pearl Harbor the once great German army was starving and turning black from frostbite.

Blog: Seventy-five years after Barbarossa

The two greatest evils in history at war,

Sociopaths and murderers understand each other perfectly, which is why they were so intent on exterminating each other.

If that idiot Stalin hadn't 'purged' nearly every officer in the Soviet army in the previous years, who knows how many millions of Russians might not have died.

 

[yiostheoy]

Operation Barbarossa suffered from several fundamental flaws. The most serious of these was the logistical situation of the attack. The sheer vastness of the distances in the Soviet Union meant that Germany could only advance so far before outrunning their supply chains. By the time the German attack froze to a halt before Moscow on December 5, 1941, it literally could not go any further. There simply were not enough supplies reaching the front to conduct proper defensive operations, let alone a proper offense. The timetable that Barbarossa was planned to assume that the Soviets would collapse before the onset of winter.

During their long retreat, the Soviets employed a scorched earth policy. They burnt crops and destroyed utilities as they withdrew before Germany. That helped to contribute to the logistical problems that Germany experienced. More importantly for them, the Soviets also succeeded in a massive and unprecedented removal of their industry from the threatened war zone to protected areas in the East.

European theatre of World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[whitehall]

If there is any question of Hitler's lack of mental stability it was the double cross of his friend and ally Joe Stalin and his invasion of Russia. Things went pretty well for the Germans at first. They rounded up about about a million Russian soldiers, most of whom never made it back to Russia from German slave labor camps after the war. The Germans also found a rich supply of Jews to try out their new machine guns on. By the time the Japanese planes were strafing Pearl Harbor the once great German army was starving and turning black from frostbite.

Blog: Seventy-five years after Barbarossa

The two greatest evils in history at war,

Sociopaths and murderers understand each other perfectly, which is why they were so intent on exterminating each other.

If that idiot Stalin hadn't 'purged' nearly every officer in the Soviet army in the previous years, who knows how many millions of Russians might not have died.

Soviet officers were nothing but political bullies who found themselves in uniform. There is nothing in the annals of modern military strategy that credits Russian leadership for anything but 18th century tactics. The only thing Russia had going for it was masses of troops, ruthless leadership and above all the Russian winter.