Explanation: After an alliance of convenience in 1939 suited both polities well in invading and genociding the Baltics and Poland, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin settled into a short period of peace. While both sides still hated each other’s guts on an ideological level, they had decided that the pernicious ‘small countries who wanted to exist’ and ‘Degenerate West’ were bigger problems than each other at the moment. A trade agreement was signed, wherein the Soviet Union supplied much-needed materiel for Nazi Germany’s war machine.
Stalin was still convinced that he had several more years until Hitler dared turn on him when Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, commenced. This surprise attack wiped out half-a-million totally unprepared Soviet troops who were in the months-long process of reorganizing and rearming.
This despite several months of Soviet intelligence warning Stalin repeatedly that the Nazis were building up for a massive attack on the Soviet Union.
Clearly, Nothing Ever Happens, which these GULAG-bound dogs would know if they were a Great Genius Of The Age like Comrade Stalin!
(You certainly can still answer, but I went ahead and just read the wiki, cause the question felt unreasonably long for a comment. Very interesting situation indeed.)
Hate to do this to you mate, but, why didn’t Hitler just keep pounding Britain til they fell? Clearly Hollywood hadn’t wrote us in yet as the sole saviors of the whole thing, and the rest of Europe was trounced, so why didn’t he just redouble his efforts and finish the West? Was he dumb dumb?
so why didn’t he just redouble his efforts and finish the West? Was he dumb dumb?
Short answer: yes
Longer answer: Basically, the German military’s capacity to launch an amphibious assault on Britain was near-nil, and the only hope of success of such an operation was to achieve total air superiority over the English Channel. Since that effort had stalled during the Battle of Britain - in part because of the idiotic decision to refocus on terror bombing, in part because the Germany war machine wasn’t really positioned to outproduce Britain in the first place - Hitler needed new resources to continue the fight with, otherwise it was a war of (aerial) attrition that he was going to lose.
He considered that the Soviet Union would be a quick and easy campaign, and succeeding there would give him the immense resources needed to continue fueling the German war machine at an increased level of intensity.
Thank you friend! From the wiki it also felt like too many chefs all with their own thought on how to use the panacea that was aerial bombing. Obviously in no way did I root for these fascist clowns, but I think I would have poured everything into knock out Britain and Really discourage isolationist America into staying their asses home. Then Hitler makes a deal with Ford, declares victory in Europe, and then spends the next 10 years turning all their captured factories into actually being a world power and not just a regional one.
Explanation: After an alliance of convenience in 1939 suited both polities well in invading and genociding the Baltics and Poland, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin settled into a short period of peace. While both sides still hated each other’s guts on an ideological level, they had decided that the pernicious ‘small countries who wanted to exist’ and ‘Degenerate West’ were bigger problems than each other at the moment. A trade agreement was signed, wherein the Soviet Union supplied much-needed materiel for Nazi Germany’s war machine.
Stalin was still convinced that he had several more years until Hitler dared turn on him when Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, commenced. This surprise attack wiped out half-a-million totally unprepared Soviet troops who were in the months-long process of reorganizing and rearming.
This despite several months of Soviet intelligence warning Stalin repeatedly that the Nazis were building up for a massive attack on the Soviet Union.
Clearly, Nothing Ever Happens, which these GULAG-bound dogs would know if they were a Great Genius Of The Age like Comrade Stalin!
(You certainly can still answer, but I went ahead and just read the wiki, cause the question felt unreasonably long for a comment. Very interesting situation indeed.)
Hate to do this to you mate, but, why didn’t Hitler just keep pounding Britain til they fell? Clearly Hollywood hadn’t wrote us in yet as the sole saviors of the whole thing, and the rest of Europe was trounced, so why didn’t he just redouble his efforts and finish the West? Was he dumb dumb?
Short answer: yes
Longer answer: Basically, the German military’s capacity to launch an amphibious assault on Britain was near-nil, and the only hope of success of such an operation was to achieve total air superiority over the English Channel. Since that effort had stalled during the Battle of Britain - in part because of the idiotic decision to refocus on terror bombing, in part because the Germany war machine wasn’t really positioned to outproduce Britain in the first place - Hitler needed new resources to continue the fight with, otherwise it was a war of (aerial) attrition that he was going to lose.
He considered that the Soviet Union would be a quick and easy campaign, and succeeding there would give him the immense resources needed to continue fueling the German war machine at an increased level of intensity.
Obviously, it was not a quick and easy campaign.
Thank you friend! From the wiki it also felt like too many chefs all with their own thought on how to use the panacea that was aerial bombing. Obviously in no way did I root for these fascist clowns, but I think I would have poured everything into knock out Britain and Really discourage isolationist America into staying their asses home. Then Hitler makes a deal with Ford, declares victory in Europe, and then spends the next 10 years turning all their captured factories into actually being a world power and not just a regional one.
It’s funny - one of those “They could have POSSIBLY won… had they not been moronic fascists in the first place”
Fucking fact.