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>What the fuck was Hitler thinking ?

The Russians were building up their armies & preparing to attack Germany. They were also bringing soldiers back west from the Japanese front, since the fighting had stopped there, & were set to attack Germany.

Hitler - And the German generals did a 'Preemptive Strike' - and it worked!
... until Hitler got in the way of the generals, Stopped armies headed to Moscow, diverted Army groups South toward Crimea for oil.
Had they just shot Hitler, Germany would have taken Russia!

- Stalin was getting ready to attack Germany. You think they should just wait for the attack?
UK & Stalin were conspiring against Germany,

The UK engineered that war because German industrial capacity was set to out-preform UK & because Germany was far advanced in Science & Technology. Britain was afraid of the Communists taking more of Europe - and - afraid of Germany's advances in potential weapons (Atom bomb, Jet engines, UFO-type craft, Rockets, etc) as well as their larger & better trained army.
Germany almost won WWI 20 years prior.