/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15551822
>It would have been a very rational idea before the war for him to decide not to start a war to kill his own people, and stay on good terms with other nations instead and infiltrate their politics.
As if it was that fucking simple.

>>15330556
>Germany has short interior lines, fights a defensive war initially and then inflicts a major defeat on Russia
The USSR was geared for attack. Germany would simply not be able to repel back a country that has 10x more tanks, airplanes, 250x more paratroopers etc.
>Half a year later, on the date of the outbreak of the war, on June 22, 1941, the Red Army possessed no less than 24,000 tanks, including 1,861 type T-34 tanks (a medium tank, perhaps the most effective armored weapon of the entire war) and KV (Klim Voroshilov) tanks (a series of heavy tanks), which had no equal anywhere in the world; 358 units of these were manufactured in 1940, while 1,503 units were manufactured in the first six months of 1941. Since 1938, the Air Forces of the Red Army had received a total of 23,245 military aircraft, including 3,719 aircraft of the latest design. The Red Army also had 148,000 artillery pieces and mor tars of all types and systems. The inventory of the Red Navy, in addition to a multiplicity of ships of other types, had 291 or, according to Soviet sources, at least 213 submarines19 an expressly aggressive weapon. This meant that the Soviet Armed Forces had a larger fleet of submarines than any other country in the world, outnumbering those of the world’s leading maritime nation, Great Britain, more than four-fold in terms of the number of submarines.
Germany did as well as it did in Barbarossa because, other than having man for man the best soldiers and minds in the world, the Soviet Union was not prepared for a defensive war. It was a gamble to try to save Europe before the Red Army would march through all of Europe.
Germany can only win while taking the initiative, and concentrating all her forces on the East.

>>15247108
Hitler -- seen as the 20th century's most profound racist -- had views completely in line with the time (and in line with any honest assessment). The only time I know he explicitly expressed territorial ambitions beyond Germany was in Mein Kampf with Russia in what he thought was an inevitable war between the Jewish communist Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany trying to save European civilization. In addition, from more or less trauma from the English food blockade which starved hundreds of thousands of Germans in the eve of AND post WW1 (hence the Ukraine -- extremely fertile lands).