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>Had Hitler not invaded the USSR in 1941, the war would have probably been much more deadlier.
I'm sorry I don't buy it. These are like post hoc rationalizations of the Fuhrer's suicidal strategy.
Again, I really like Hitler and the National Socialists but taking on multiple great powers (because he should have known that England always drags the USA into it/he was a WW1 vet) was a recipe for suicide for the Third Reich.
Attacking the USSR also very stupid. Even his generals and subordinates were iffy about it and warned him. It's a vast cold country with like two times Germany's population.
I think Hitler attacked the Russians based on the, unfortunately, wrong idea that because the Russians performed miserably against Finland (even though they still won) that they would be easy to defeat.
You don't have to be Clausewitz to understand that you don't take on multiple great powers at the same time on multiple fronts.
>but Soviets were going to attack Theory, ie fatalism
There's no hard evidence for this theory, and yes I've read a lot about it including by a Red Army officer, forgot his name, who speculated that the Soviet Union 'would have attacked Germany'. But it's all speculative.
I know hindsight is 20/20 but a far better strategy for Hitler would have been to fortify the hell out of any bordering regions with the Soviets while trying to maintain good diplomatic relations with them, while then focusing on taking the British out, including in N Africa and the Middle East.
Attacking the USSR while the UK is unresolved and while America was bound to get involved was a dumb, suicidal strategy and the proof was in the pudding (destruction of Third Reich).
In my alternate strategy suggestion, the Third Reich might (emphasis on might) have still been destroyed but it also stood a far greater chance to successfully consolidate, fortify and survive, to the benefit of white people.
Now we have this sad, shitty world instead.