All About - History - Hitler Versus Stain
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Awar of total annihilation was about to begin. The<br />
target of the Nazi wrath was the Soviet Union, the<br />
communist powerhouse that dominated from the<br />
Baltic Sea to the North Pacific. Since penning Mein<br />
Kampf in 1925, German dictator Adolf <strong>Hitler</strong> had<br />
made it his mission to supply the German people with the<br />
Lebensraum – living space – he believed they needed and<br />
end what he saw as the creeping evil of Bolshevism, the<br />
revolutionary creed that, as he saw it, threatened the fragile<br />
German republic of the 1920s. This wasn’t just any military<br />
campaign – it was a clash between two mutually exclusive<br />
ideologies that viewed each other with absolute contempt,<br />
two totalitarian dictatorships that ruled through fear and<br />
demanded absolute, unthinking obedience, and two allpowerful<br />
monsters that commanded their war effort from the<br />
highest level. In the spring of 1941, Austrian failed artist Adolf<br />
<strong>Hitler</strong> would break his pact with Georgian bank robber Josef<br />
Stalin – and millions would pay for their arrogance.<br />
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