INSIDE THE MIND OF HITLER
May 20, 2021
3 minutes
hortly after completing the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact on 23 August 1939, Adolf Hitler said: “My pact was only meant to stall for time… to Russia will happen just what I have Operation Barbarossa was a conflict entrenched in his perception of the Bolsheviks as a wholly Jewish enemy. “Hitler’s planning on the whole was ideologically driven, rather than based on sound military goals,” says military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones. Yet Hitler’s obsession with masterminding Operation Barbarossa would prove instrumental in its failure.
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