Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "WW2: The Resource War - The Engines of War - Extra History - Part 3" video.

  1. Hitler wanted Russias resources and wrote nasty things about the slavic people in his book Mein Kampf, and basicly saw the huge Russian land as a good way to build a new German colonial empire as large as the British empite that covered fifth of the globe. Russias growing industry and aggressive behaviour towards countries in the baltic, Finland and Romania made Hitler fear a war with Russia might coming soon. So by invading Russia in 1941, Hitler thought that he would be able to knock out Russia before they had become too powerful. And Russia also seemed weak in 1941, Stalin was a suspicious man who had killed hundreds of Marshals, Generals and other skilled commanders because he saw them as a threat to himself. So in 1940 his army lacked good leadership when Russia attacked Finland, which was the poorest country in Europe. But despite having a large army and the most modern and powerful tanks in the world Russia lost the war totally. That in turn made Hitler confident that he could invade Russia and easily make it fall apart, when the Russian army couldn't even defeat the finns. Hitler had the best army in the world in 1941, the soliders had been in combat many times before and gained experience. Confidence in the leadership was high and fighting morale among the troops was strong, training and tactics had been improved after experiences in the fighting in Europe, equipment had been tested in real combat and that which performed bad was scraped and the germans tried to produce more of the good weapons that proved effective.
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