We Are The Mighty: Hitler had no idea the Soviets were so strong before invading
By the time Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, they were already at war with the British Empire, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Poland, France, and much of Western Europe had already fallen, but governments in exile joined the Allied effort against the Axis powers. So, the natural thing to do would be invade the world's largest country, right?
If you're Hitler, obviously, your answer is yes.
But Hitler just secured dominance of Continental Europe and was risking it by going up against a major world power with whom he had a treaty of nonaggression. Hitler's lebensraum theory aside, the reason he launched the 1941 attack on the Soviet Union is that he just didn't know how strong the Soviet Union actually was.
Intel and all that.
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WNU Editor: What is amazing is that this is the only audio recording of Adolph Hitler speaking in a conversational voice. As for underestimating the military capability of the Soviet Union .... he is not the only one .... Napoleon's retreat from Moscow was just as bad.
