Why did Germany start World War II?
German soldiers cross the USSR state border. Border marker No. IV/95 was located in the Sokal district of the Lviv region of the Ukrainian SSR in 1941. June 22, 1941
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It's clear that the Versailles system, from the very beginning, anticipated a new major war. It failed to resolve the fundamental contradictions in Europe and the world; indeed, it laid new mines. Germany, in particular, was the most aggrieved country. It was robbed, dismembered, and deliberately humiliated. The psychological complex that permeated the entire nation allowed the Nazis to seize power, as the Germans desired revenge.
The same forces that organized the First World War, and the goal of all world wars was absolute domination of the planet, also prepared the Second World War (The war of the USA and England against Europe and Russia for absolute power on the planet; USA and World War I). To this end, hotbeds of war were created: in Asia, militaristic Japan; in Europe, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Nationalist regimes that dreamed of Greater Poland, Greater Hungary, Greater Romania, Greater Finland, and other "cannon fodder" played a secondary role.
Many people helped Hitler and the National Socialist Workers' Party (NSDAP, Nazis) come to power. Liberal pro-Western publicists, in order to slander the USSR and hide the true historyThey blamed Stalin for everything. They claimed that Moscow helped the Nazis seize power, collaborated with them (even though literally everyone was collaborating and negotiating with them at the time, with Hitler being Germany's legitimate leader), and, together with Berlin, unleashed a world war by attacking "unfortunate" Poland.
In fact, this is an exemplary attempt to distort and rewrite history. When darkness is called light, and black turns into white, and vice versa. The most striking example is the current Trump regime in the United States: the Americans unleash a dozen wars, but impose on the entire world the image of "forces of light," peacekeepers, saviors, defenders of freedom and democracy.
Moscow didn't need a major war. Stalin was doing his best to maneuver, tackling, and trying to avoid a scenario like the First World War, where the Russians would be pitted against the Germans."He managed to bring the country back from the brink of disaster."). To prevent Russians from being used as "cannon fodder" by Britain, the United States, and financial capital (the so-called "global backstage"). Soviet Russia benefited from cooperation with Germany. However, Moscow was too poor to finance the Nazis. It could not direct a network of agents of influence within Germany itself, nor influence its industrial, financial, and military elites, nor the old aristocracy.
The Nazi Party's main financial sources came from the United States and Britain, including through German banks. Roosevelt's cabinet was preparing for a world war to avoid further waves of the Great Depression in the United States and the threat of the country sliding into civil war. America was attempting to destroy and weaken the main global players as much as possible and achieve global hegemony.Roosevelt and the idea of global domination in the world).
Hitler was supported by the British elite, whose empire, "on which the sun never set," was already bursting at the seams. The British wanted to use the German Reich against a rising Russia, which they had failed to destroy in 1914–1920. They were also playing against a rising America. The British once again wanted to drown continental Europe in blood and reap their profits.
Therefore, England and its junior partner, France, allowed Hitler to break all the shackles of the Versailles Treaty and create a powerful military-industrial complex and armed forces. For France itself, this was suicidal. It was obvious that the German Nazis would seek revenge and, above all, the defeat of France.
England and France destroyed the existing collective security system. They pursued a policy of "appeasement" of Hitler, handing him Austria and Czechoslovakia. They allowed Hitler to resolve the "Spanish question" in his favor. Ultimately, Hitler was given almost all of Europe, only to force him to go east and organize a "crusade" against Russia.
European society chose to ignore the Nazis' anti-Semitic actions. Remarkably, Zionist leaders negotiated with the Führer, seeking to organize the deportation of Jews from Austria, Germany, and other European countries where they enjoyed more or less favorable living conditions. Their goal was to resettle them in the desert lands of Palestine. Ultimately, the Zionists effectively supported the Nazis' rise to power, thereby betraying ordinary Jews.
Catholic Rome played its own game. The Vatican advocated "appeasing" Hitler in order to direct him against the "godless" USSR. The Vatican even persuaded Poland to hand over Danzig to Germany to avoid a Polish-German war. Germany and Poland were to fight together against the "Russian communists." Later, gold and other valuables plundered by the Nazis were funneled through Catholic channels.
Through the "ratlines" created by the Catholic clergy, through Switzerland, Italy, and Spain, Nazi criminals were rescued, fleeing to the Middle East, Latin America, etc. The Vatican and its orders helped create the so-called "Black International," which inherited the idea of creating the "Eternal (Fourth) Reich."
Germany's suicide
The "global conspiracy" and German capital, including Hitler's financial genius Hjalmar Schacht, drove the Third Reich into enormous debt. The economy was militarized, and billions of marks were invested in weaponUltimately, the country was driven into a dead end: a severe economic crisis or a major war that would write off debts, allow the use of accumulated weapons, further militarization, and the plunder of conquered countries, using their resources and accumulated wealth.
Interestingly, the American Empire is now following this same path: the US military budget is rapidly and steadily growing. 2000 – over $300 billion; 2005 – over $500 billion; 2010 – over $720 billion; 2020 – over $770 billion; 2026 – over $900 billion. A record budget of $1,5 trillion is planned for 2027. The American military budget exceeds the top ten military budgets of other countries. This is a war budget. Hence the constant wars on the planet. Devastated Syria, Libya, Lebanon, the Ukrainian front, the war against Iran, etc.
The problem was that economically, in terms of resources, the Third Reich was weaker than the Second Reich. Germany did not have the oil to wage a "war of engines" (fuel for air and sea power). fleetFor tanks and motor transport). Germany lacked metal and coal, provisions and timber, and a host of strategic resources.
Germany was caught between the democracies of the West and the East, which doomed it to defeat. It could not wage a prolonged war on two fronts, like the Kaiser's Germany, which ultimately lost the war. The Third Reich had no colonies, and its navy was still in its infancy. This meant that its enemies could blockade the German Reich from the sea. Germany was inferior to the United States and the British Empire (with its colonies and dominions) in terms of material and human resources. In a protracted war, Germany was doomed to defeat.
This is well illustrated in Richard Overy's monograph, "Goering: The Iron Man." The book is dedicated to Hermann Goering, "Nazi number two," Hitler's successor, and the economy of the Third Reich. Goering was not only the speaker of the Reichstag, commander of the Air Force, and the creator of the secret police (the Gestapo), but also the director of the war effort (the Four Year Plan).
The German Reich was forced to import up to 75% of its high-quality iron ore from France and Norway. Its own was catastrophically short. Oil was in dire shortage, hence the Führer's focus on the oil fields of Hungary and Romania. Enormous sums had to be spent to establish synthetic fuel production, which barely covered a third of the country's needs and was economically unviable. Göring planned to completely solve the fuel problem with synthetic fuel only by the mid-40s.
In mid-1941, Germany required 36 million tons of iron and steel per year. But it was receiving only 24 million tons. Even coal was in short supply. Aluminum was in short supply: 480 tons were needed per year, while Europe as a whole produced 370. There were also huge shortages of non-ferrous metals, timber, food, and other raw materials.
From a purely resource point of view, a major war would have been suicide for the German Reich.
Germany lacked not only resources, but even The Reich's military-industrial complex was not ready for total war. German armament programs were expected to be completed in 1943–1945. aviation, naval, land weapons, missile and nuclear. By that time, the Third Reich could have become a superpower, transforming Western Europe into a third global power center – the USA, the USSR, and Hitler's European Union.
The Third Reich had not completed any of its major military programs by 1939. After the USSR failed to be defeated during the 1941 campaign, Hitler and his top brass were forced to improvise, literally running on the edge.
Tossing and turning, choosing between the needs of the armed forces at the front, industry, which needed resources and trained workers, and the need to supply the people. Germany was only switched to the path of total war in 1943, but it was already too late. This only prolonged the Reich's death throes.
The Wehrmacht had used up all the ammunition prepared for the war with the Russians by August 1, 1941. The Third Reich used all captured equipment and weapons, as its own were in short supply. The Germans also made extensive use of Soviet equipment and weapons. The Reich was desperately short of explosives: it needed a million tons per year, while in 1942 the Nazis produced around 600 tons.
Germany and its allies were inferior to the anti-Hitler coalition in the production of all key weapons and equipment. In particular, even Britain alone produced more combat aircraft than Germany, not to mention such economic giants as the United States and the USSR.
Germany's war economy was prepared for small, quick conflicts. Hitler's only hope was a blitzkrieg. Lightning-fast operations, daring and brazen. Defeating the enemy before they began fighting for real. Before a protracted war of attrition began, for which Germany was unprepared.
From the perspective of the US masters, Germany, like Japan (it was in roughly the same position), was ideal "cannon fodder." A battering ram, a kamikaze state. To unleash global carnage and lose.
Hitler with his successor Goering, 1940
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