I have been watching a lot of documentaries on Hitler lately and WW2 in general. Just because I'm in a depressed slump and watching WW2 documentaries makes me feel less depressed. WW2 must of been apocalyptic to those in Europe at the time. I may be depressed right now but it makes me feel better knowing the people that caught in the middle of the war lost everything.
I wonder how history would have turned out of Hitler used basic reasoning and logic with regards to the Soviet Union.
He should have known that it was a huge massive gamble to invade the Soviet Union.
Here are things which I think he failed to consider:
1. If the Soviets are not a 3rd rate military power like he assumed they were, then basic logic would mean that would spell absolute disaster for Germany.
2. If they can't knock out the Soviets quickly, that means Great Britain could open up new fronts in Western Europe.
3. Britain and America could supply the Soviet Union through other routes.
4. There is zero evidence that Stalin had hostility or plans to invade Nazi Germany. In fact in retrospect, all evidence points out to how Stalin thought Hitler would never invade because of their prior non-hostility aggression pact.
5. Germany was getting the oil it needed through trade with the Soviet Union.
But all of that was not considered because he was blinded by his racial ideology. He thought that Slavs and Jews were subhumans that needed to be wiped out with their lands and resources taken from them.