MIMX wrote:
EdelBrock wrote:
As for Hitler "hating" the Reds more than the Jews (noted by MIMX), that just silly. He and Japan were vying strongly to get Russia (Stalin) part of the Axis... this main failure led to the destruction of both Nazis and Imperial Japan...
Thank you John this is without doubt the stupidest thing I've heard since 1990 (Fuck 17 years no bad going.)
Go and find out about Rosa Luxembourg Karl Liebknecht the Freikorps, and the Nazi's fight against the German communists, you deeply silly man!
(And when the pact between the Soviets/Nazi's was signed both parties knew it would be broken!)
Hitler always intended to attack the USSR, and regarded Communists as unequivocally the enemy. For him the pact was always just a temporary expedient. Whether Stalin was being rationally cynical or just gullible is less clear. The latter seems more likely to me.
Arguing whether Adolf hated Jews or Reds or some other group more is a waste of keystrokes - hundreds of books have been written by professional historians (and other folk who actually have some idea what they are talking about and don't waste time on web forums) without coming to any definitive conclusion about what Hitler's 'ultimate' motivations were.
Personally I see him as a performance artist, loving conflict and destruction for its own sake. Certainly this desire was more important to him in the end than even his precious German Volk, whom he happily damned to destruction after they 'failed' him. And he was, after all, a failed artist, as were many of the top Nazis.
What I don't know is how much Hitler was just following a traditional German urge to build an Empire in Europe. If that had been his intention he would have been more rational to have stopped before attacking the USSR, certainly not declared war on the US, and just left GB alone until it agreed to a peace treaty. An empire spanning from Brest (France) to Brest (Poland) would certainly have satisfied his predecessors. (Two Brests are enough for anyone?)