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Originally posted by finti
Hitlers major mistake was to break their treaty and attack the Soviet Union
Originally posted by Bardock42
Why?Finti, I don'T think rto break the treaty was stupid, just to attack them during winter was a bad move.
Finti is right. This opened Germany up to a two front war. Had Hitler waited until the fall of western Europe, he could have easily taken out the Soviets. However short-sighted Hitler may have been to break the treaty and attack the Soviets, it hardly compares to the short-sightedness of Stalin to enter into a treaty with the Nazis. If anyone had the foresight to read Mein Kampf, the whole world would have stopped the Nazis before they attacked Poland in Sept of '39. Hitler laid out all of his plans in this book. The irradication of the Jews, the hatred for Communism, the world government, the master race, etc! It was all in Mein Kampf. To my knowledge, Churchill seemed to have been the only world leader that took the time to read the book. This is why he spent years calling for more action against pre-war Germany...and he was called a nut and warmonger. Only after the outbreak of war did everyone else catch up to him. Stalin should have read the book too. Germany had already invaded Russia before Stalin would believe that Hitler had betrayed him.