>>520682455
He didn’t. You can read the transcript of the speech he gave the day he launched Operation Barbarossa.

He specifically states he’s not waging a war on Russia or the Russian people but only on communism and actually freeing the Russian people from it and also protecting Finland, Lithuania and Romania.

https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler4.htm

>The German people have never had hostile feelings toward the peoples of Russia. During the last two decades, however, the Jewish-Bolshevist rulers in Moscow have attempted to set not only Germany, but all of Europe, aflame. Germany has never attempted to spread its National Socialist worldview to Russia. Rather, the Jewish-Bolshevist rulers in Moscow have constantly attempted to subject us and the other European peoples to their rule. They have attempted this not only intellectually, but above all through military means. The results of their efforts, in every nation, were only chaos, misery, and starvation.

National Socialism came directly out of the White Russian Emigre movement in Germany through the Aufbau Vereinigung. Without Russians there would have been no Nazis. White Russians were some of Hitler’s biggest supporters. And when the Germans invaded they also recruited many Soviet Red Russians to form a new post-Soviet government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Army