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CuomoisaMassMurderer 2 points ago +2 / -0

Thanks! I find this very interesting. I've actually learned some things about this in the past few months; depending on which WWII historical author you read, you get very different ideas. I can't remember the author's names now, but it's sorta like MSM bias. Basically German is very much like English and easy to translate. Hitler was dead and german Generals were free to paint him as a madman, portraying themselves as military geniuses and their troops like heroes. US generals did the same thing as much as they could, they just didn't have nearly as much latitude. And Soviet input was squashed by their own iron curtain, and now they're mad we don't know their side of the story. It's also impossible to translate Russian military documentation into English.

So one author in particular can be read and the neo-Nazi framework seems reasonable. Except IABS (it's all bullshit) The funny thing is Hitler had to go to war! He was looking at the markets for German goods shrinking, and they'd support those markets until Germany was bankrupt. Sorta like US and China. And they needed oil. So Hitler had no choice but to invade USSR. Regardless of how complex it was or wasn't, it's nothing like the history we were taught. And the Soviet perspective isn't likely to add much insight, at least not in the near future.