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This 12 page paper discusses some of the history, preparation and execution of Operation Barbarossa, which culminated in the Battle of Stalingrad. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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and the deaths of millions on both sides, civilians and military personnel alike; and it ultimately failed in its objective. This paper examines the operation and its climax, the Battle
of Stalingrad. History The German invasion of Russia on June 22, 1941, is both surprising and almost foreordained. Its surprising because no one expected Hitler to open a second front;
fighting in two theaters at once is an invitation to disaster. And foreordained because in Mein Kampf, Hitler revealed his deep hatred of the Slavs and other Eastern races he
considered "inferior." It was only a matter of time before he moved against them. Patrick Shrier writes, "The German War against Russia was almost preordained, as early as 1937
Hitler was planning on going to war against the Russians in order to gain Lebensraum or living space" (Shrier, 2006). In November 1940, the Germans invited Russian Foreign Minister Molotov
to a meeting in Berlin, with both Hitler and von Rippentrop in attendance; the subject was a proposal to add Russia to the Tripartite Pact, which then consisted of Germany,
Italy and Japan (Shrier, 2006). "The Russians refused to join and within two weeks Hitler directed that detailed planning for Operation Barbarossa begin with the issuance of Fuehrer Directive #21
on 18 December 1940" (Shrier, 2006). It seems unlikely that even signing the pact would have saved Russia from invasion, since Hitler was intent on emptying the country to give
the Germans their "living space." But we can speculate that signing might have delayed it, perhaps long enough so that operations in other theaters would have weakened the German Reich
to the point where an invasion would no longer have been possible. However, no such signing took place, and the German invasion of Russia rumbled into life in June,
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