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Originally posted by dasreich:
*war with USSR inevitable, better to have pre-emptive advantage
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First, the war with the USSR was maybe ineviatable, because Hitler's long-term goal was always to invade the USSR. Read "mein Kampf". Second, I would like to see some facts supporting the idea that the invasion of the USSR was in any way "pre-emtive". "Barbarossa" being a "pre-emtive"-strike is revisionist nazi nonsense, it was not even a "preventive" strike (if anyone even cares about the difference).
I have some problems with the blatant statement: "war was inevitable". Evenb though we know that The USSSR was always Hitler's ultimate victim of agression, as his entire "lebensraum"-idea, his anti-bolshevism, his anti-semitism, his colonial hegemonial dreams are focussed in a invasion of the USSR, as much I think that a war is "inevitable". During the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s almost everybody said that a clash between NATO and WP is "inevitable" sooner or later, ending up in nuclear holocaust. Well, we're still alive.
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*USSR possibly preparing for offensive war against Germany by 1942/3, better to catch them off gaurd
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POSSIBLE is the key word. I think it's a bit strange to invade a country like the USSR because it is "possible" preparing for war, huh?
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*Winning WW2 can only be achieved by dominating Europe. This can only be achieved by defeating USSR, as BoB ended in Britains favor, and Rainbow program a serious threat.
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I agree. One reason (the strategic one) why Hitler decided to invade the USSR.
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*All the resources Germany could want or need lies in Russia. Caucasus oil a great boon.
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Not all, but most, I agree. Yet another reason (The economic "Lebensraum"-idea) why Hitler decided to invade the USSR.
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*If successful against Russia, pincer movement against North Africa possible...could cut suez off and strike to blow to Britain.
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Right.
Cheers,