"War of The Century": 4 of 20

Before invading Poland, Germany signed the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, securing the eastern border of Germany. Limited trade, mostly on the part of the Russians, was part of the agreement. But everyone involved knew that it was a measure on both sides to buy time. Ideologically, both nations despised the other. Hitler had devoted much of Mein Kampf to his believe in the menace of Communism. Nazism was against everything Communism stood for.

Part of the operational planning of the German high command involved a possible invasion of the Soviet Union. On July 21, a month after the fall of France, Hitler summoned Generalfeldmarshal Walther von Brauchitsch and instructed him to plan for an invasion of the Soviet Union

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[lmos26]

I've noticed that many documentaries on WW2 make little or no mention of Stalin's atrocities against his own people. It's good to finally watch one that covers it all.

[alanheath2]

@andrewdudeldoo I have been to veterans reunions and it is not like that at all. There is next to no hatred.

[mainface]

@SoF333 no different to any modern goverment

[SHMUJEW]

why wasnt germany nuked?

[GreenShadedThing]

@lmos26 dont get too excited. I didnt stated that as a fact, if you take a closer look I used word maybe, which indicates that I didnt really knew. but thanks for clearing that, now I dont have to use this word in this context anymore ;)

[lmos26]

@GreenShadedThing You're WRONG, Stalin executed and imprisoned hundreds of thousands that he suspected to be Nazi sympathizers, "almost always wrong" He was inconceivably paranoid about this... even those civilians who put up white flags on their windows, paid dearly for that little mistake. Whenever Russians were liberated from Nazi POW camps, he immediately had them arrested and sent to the Gulag & not just the soldiers, but women as well. The list goes on and on.

[GreenShadedThing]

@lmos26 maybe because this was mainly after the war

[SoF333]

Hitler and Stalin were essentially the same when things went bad for their soldiers. Both essentially said, 'I don't care what happens to you.'

[HikaruFX12645]

3:12 The Sacred War !!

[weirdguy75]

@hydroptere I'm sure most of them live with continuous anguish from what they did in their youth. If they weren't fighting under fear of death and punishment, I'd like to think they wouldn't have done the things they did.

[hydroptere]

the face expressions of these old germans show pride and justification for what they committed. Most of them were in the SS...I would dig a whole and hide my face until I die for suffocation.

[MaximusProteus]

@toffanful Why can`t you answer my comments?

You`re trying to excuse the soviet ethnic policies with deprivation, collaboration or whatever`s related to the war. What i was writing about happened before the German invasion, when soviets were their most precious ally, or even before that. I`d really like to know how will you explain that to not admit their common objective was extermination of that "minority".

Anyhow, it doesn`t matter for the victims what objective persecutors had.