"Germany's population is increasing by 900,000 every year, and the difficulty of feeding this new population is naturally increasing every year.
There are only two ways to find work and bread for these breeding populations, that is, to open up territories and adopt a colonial policy. ”
This chilling text is from Hitler's Mein Kampf.
In the book, Hitler uses inflammatory language as a paintbrush to sketch the territory, population, and social system of the "Greater German Reich."
In Hitler's vision, it was to re-establish a "new order" in Europe. For the sake of this so-called "new order", Hitler did not hesitate to tear up the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact and point his sharp edge to the East.
If history has a if, Hitler really occupied the Soviet Union, then who is Hitler's fish on the chopping block? And where will Hitler drive his tanks?
By observing the history of the world, we can find a law: once everything develops to a certain stage, it will inevitably decline, and the same is true for the development of various countries.
But development varies from country to country due to various factors. Therefore, no one can accurately ** which country will become the new world hegemon. Of course, there are rules to follow.
Whether it's the agricultural age or the industrial age, once you get a free ride, the momentum will be difficult to stop. However, there are great differences between Eastern and Western countries.
In recent years, China's rise has focused on win-win cooperation and convincing people with reason; The West, on the other hand, is more inclined to "use power to convince others".
Western countries have been more predatory at any time and have exerted oppression on weak and small countries. This culture has existed since ancient times.
Therefore, after the end of World War I, Germany, as a defeated country, was still unable to resist the exploitation and oppression of the other victorious powers.
As with human nature, anything that is over-oppressed is bound to **. Germany is a case in point.
On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Non-Aggression Pact. It was thought that the treaty would temporarily preserve the relationship between the two countries.
But Stalin never expected that the signing of the treaty was only a delaying tactic by Hitler. At this time, Hitler was secretly planning how to incorporate the Soviet Union into Germany's territory!
In June 1941, the German fascists under the command of Hitler officially declared war on the Soviet Union, and the huge German army began to approach Moscow.
Given his experience in blitzkrieg against Poland, the arrogant Hitler once believed that it would take the Germans only three months at most to successfully take the Soviet Union.
However, it backfired, and Hitler's elaborate plan of aggression was finally destroyed by the Soviet Union step by step. The Germans clearly overestimated their capabilities.
At the beginning of the German-Soviet war, Hitler commanded the German army to push directly on Moscow. The Soviet Union was losing ground in the face of the German army's strong combat prowess.
And just as Moscow was about to fall, Moscow had its earliest winter ever. The temperature dropped rapidly by nearly 20 degrees, and the soldiers were poorly dressed to withstand the cold due to their lack of preparation for the cold. Many of the best equipment also broke down.
At the same time, the victories in the battles of Stalingrad and Leningrad shattered the myth of the invincibility of the German fascists, thereby winning external assistance from the United States.
Since then, Hitler's long-brewing "Barbarossa" plan has been completely bankrupt.
If the "Barbarossa" plan could be successfully implemented, then the USSR would have only been given limited living space and would have been forced to huddle in the area east of the Ural Mountains. In this way, Hitler could control almost the entire European continent.
However, Hitler did not stop his army. On the contrary, the defeat of the USSR fueled his ambitions even more, and he would continue to conquer the world.
In Hitler's view, the next goal was around the Mediterranean Sea in order to accomplish the goals of the "Third Reich".
The "Third Reich" refers to the period of Nazi rule in Germany from 1933 to 1945. Prior to this, Germany had gone through two imperial periods: the "Holy Roman Empire of the German nation" and the "German Empire".
At one meeting, Hitler revealed the answer in his initial speech: "Once we defeat the Soviet Union, we can attack Iran directly and occupy the Persian Gulf." ”
In doing so, it would not only take possession of the vast oil reserves in the Middle East, but also block the Persian Gulf region, the only channel for American aid to Britain. In this way, sooner or later, Britain will be dragged down in isolation without American assistance. This can be said to directly cut off the lifeblood of the Allies.
From here, it is not difficult to see that before Hitler launched World War II, he had already made a plan, once the Soviet Union was defeated, his next target was the Middle East.
Speaking of the Middle East, it is impossible to mention the United States and Britain, with which it has close relations. In addition to the German-Soviet battlefield, World War II unfolded another war between Germany and Britain and the United States.
At this time, the Middle East, as a reserve of oil resources of the United States, Britain and other countries, naturally became the target of German attacks.
The reason is simple: the Middle East is known as the powder keg of the world. This is not a metaphor for it, but rather a "powder keg" in itself, which shows the high amount of oil produced.
As the most oil-producing region, the Middle East is not only coveted by the United States and Britain, but Germany is also eager to occupy it. But Hitler never imagined that the plan to "occupy Moscow" would go so hard!
In order to occupy Stalingrad, the largest industrial city in the Soviet Union, Hitler did not hesitate to invest 2 million troops in the early stage, aiming to take the peripheral cities of Stalingrad as quickly as possible.
In the end, the Germans achieved good results. However, Hitler completely underestimated the strength of the Soviet troops, and at one time the Germans were in a difficult situation when it came to the capture of the inner siege of Stalingrad.
The end result was a complete defeat for Hitler in this Soviet-German war. His elaborate battle plan can only become a talking point ...... later generations
It is hard to imagine that if Hitler had really been allowed to become a regime like Ottoman Turkey plus, and then come to attack Britain, it is estimated that Britain would have been powerless for a long time.
But such an integration process will certainly be quite long, and the situation in the world will change. Napoleon of France promoted the achievements of the French Revolution through war, so the countries he defeated developed rapidly. The Napoleonic European system that was eventually established was defeated.
When Hitler expanded in Germany, he brought nothing but war and disaster to the world. Such a regime is unlikely to succeed in any case. Integrating countries is not easy. Hitler's foreign wars inevitably arose and lost quickly, which was completely in line with his concept of "blitzkrieg".
At the same time, Hitler's seemingly vast ambitions required countless lives to be realized. This kind of *** wish will be resisted. Only "peace" is what people want to see most. Therefore, it is wrong that Hitler's ambitions were doomed to fail from the very beginning.
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