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Without the oil fields of Russia, Hitler would have been forced to declare an early peace with Britain and forego more conquests in Africa. By capturing Stalingrad they could secure the richest oil fields in the world and maintain their war indefinitely. Russia is one of the most resource wealthy countries in the world. So why did Hitler suddenly turn to Russia when Britain was still a formidable force to deal with in North Africa? This just in, Nazis take Stalingrad To say it was a war of ideology would be false. Their political ideologies were roughly similar to each other. Stalin was a Communist, more or less one step up from Socialism. It should also be noted that the Nazi Party was the National Socialist Party of Germany. So in this light consider Stalin and Hitler to be parallel evils. The Holocaust saw the death of five million Jews, Poles, and Gypsies over 5 years, or roughly 1M victims a year 1/7 of Stalin. It doesn’t look good to show your allies in a bad light. The Holocaust gets a lot of attention because well, Hitler was our enemy and Stalin was our ally. Joseph Stalin purposely starved out the Ukrainian population and caused one of the most brutal genocides in history. Joseph Stalin is responsible for a massacre of roughly seven million Ukrainians in a period of one year.
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Hitler in fact signed a non-aggression pact with Russia knowing full well that a war with Russia was within his plans. The conspiracy became a public fact in Germany and the idea of foreign powers manipulating Germany into war with Russia created an anti-war movement against Russia. He argued in this book that they should not declare war on Russia until after France is defeated. When this plot was uncovered Adolf Hitler (then in prison) wrote in his book Mein Kemph about the plots of the western allies to try and make Germany weak by creating an artificial war with Russia. The main reason why Britain and France were so desperate to get Germany to declare war on Russia was specifically so that Joseph Stalin would not rise in power as he did. We often see history as Russia being the good allies of America and the Nazis being evil scum genocidal murders. As early as 1924 there are communications between the British and French illustrating a clear plot to try and make Germany and Russia declare war on each other.Ī decade later when Hitler would rise to become a major political figure in European politics Prime Minister Chamberlain would often declare “let heil Hitler sort them out.” The one you have most likely heard is that Adolf Hitler was an egotistical maniac and would destroy his country to defeat Joseph Stalin. There are many hypothesis on why Germany declared war on Russia. This one happens to be a part of my favorite historical event, the siege of Stalingrad. I should say that won’t effect my appreciation for good first person shooter games. Turns out I suck at first person shooters. Well it’s been a while since I played a first person shooter, so that’s what happened.