Thursday, February 14, 2008
operation Barbarbossa
so hitler breaks the non aggression pack with stalin, hitler wanted to take over russia which at first seemed to go wrong, then as we saw in class the circling of areas and ground being covered which seemed like hitler would succeed again, until he headed southeast. some say stalin was a good leader, but it seems as though he was just a powerful man that lead the red army because the soldiers feared for their lives, however, this type of rule matched up against hitlers tactics, therefore they were able to hold off the nazi's and actually start an offensive counter attack to berlin. This seems to have been the first real counter attack on the nazi party and was only able to take place because of two rulers that took the lives of individual rather lightly and did not take into account lives lost but land protected. this however, I feel was the reason why WWII had a vast turning point, because if hitler went to battle with any other country he would have won.
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That is an interesting point, I have never thought of it like that. But I agree decisions of life and death are a lot easier to make when you do not care about the lives at stake. I am not sure that Hitler would have won all the battles with other counties though, especially when the US entered the war. From reading In deadly Combat, US equipment alone made a difference.
Along this same line, I thought it interesting to note the author wrote that had Hitler and Germany paid attention to the feelings of the Russian people against the tyranny of Stalin, things may have gone differently. It might not have taken much on Hitler’s part to sway the Russian people because of their hostility towards their own leader. However, Hitler and his gang chose to demoralize the Russian people saying their soldiers were illiterate and half-Asian and ruled by “Jewish subhumans.” This, apparently, was a big mistake.
I agree that Stalin was powerful because of the fear he instilled in people. He would have been even stronger if he wasn't so paranoid, because he would have had even stronger commanders in his army and a stronger reconnaissance team.
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