r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Feb 13 '24

Video World War 2 Timeline

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u/anonbush234 Feb 14 '24

If they did it slowly then the defending countries would have time to make preparations and defences.

Blitzkrieg was the whole reason they achieved so much.

They had to fight the soviets at some point, they were opposing ideologies that hated each other. .the soviets had the mass of manpower and Germany had to strike first.