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This 9 page paper discusses the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941; the reasons for the campaign and its objectives. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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the invasion and its objectives. Reasons for the Invasion The German invasion of Russia has puzzled historians for decades, since the two countries had signed a mutual non-aggression pact, but
even more because such an invasion seemed doomed from the start. Napoleon tried it and lost most of his army; it seemed that the lessons of history were lost on
Hitler. There is debate on exactly why Germany undertook the invasion, and reasons given vary greatly. There is the idea that "the Germans feared that the Red Army was
preparing to attack them, and their own assault was thus presented as a preemptive war" (Operation Barbarossa, 2006). However, the real reason for the invasion is most probably ideological; people
who read Hitlers book Mein Kampf "should ... have expected an invasion of the Soviet Union" (Operation Barbarossa, 2006). In the book, Hitler made it perfectly clear that the German
nation needed Lebensraum (usually translated as "living room" or space to expand) and that such room would be found to the east (Operation Barbarossa, 2006). Beyond that, however, was Hitlers
belief that the Slavic peoples were inferior and should be exterminated; in fact "[I]t was the stated policy of the Nazis to kills, depart or enslave the Russian and other
Slavic populations, whom they considered inferior, and to repopulate the land with Germanic peoples" (Operation Barbarossa, 2006). It was Hitlers plan to exterminate the "entire urban population ... by starvation,
thus creating an agricultural surplus to feed Germany" in addition to allowing the German upper class to replace those killed (Operation Barbarossa, 2006). Alfred Rosenberg, a "German Nazi-ideologist," prepared to
implement Hitlers ideas, and suggested that "conquered Soviet territory should be administered in [five] ...Reichskommissariates: Ostland (The Baltic countries and Belarus); Ukraine (Ukraine and adjacent territories); Kaukasus (Southern Russia and
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