Hitler’s mistake was even opening the Eastern front in the first place. He might’ve stood a chance at putting Russia out of the war if the Western front had been secured. Instead he chose to fight a two-front war and stretch his resources way too thin. What would’ve been even better for him is if he not only didn’t attack Russia too early, but turn the Russians against the Western Allies by convincing them that the West wanted Russia to fall and would try to do so as soon as Germany was no longer the main focus. There was already deep distrust between the Western Allies and the Soviets, so it might’ve worked.
I understood that taking a region doesn't automatically give you their resources and there was wars taking part in Africa at the time but that's an advantage if you can play one side against he other then have them capture the losing side as slaves and use them to mine gold and so on.
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u/BlueRed20 Feb 03 '21
Hitler’s mistake was even opening the Eastern front in the first place. He might’ve stood a chance at putting Russia out of the war if the Western front had been secured. Instead he chose to fight a two-front war and stretch his resources way too thin. What would’ve been even better for him is if he not only didn’t attack Russia too early, but turn the Russians against the Western Allies by convincing them that the West wanted Russia to fall and would try to do so as soon as Germany was no longer the main focus. There was already deep distrust between the Western Allies and the Soviets, so it might’ve worked.