The black pope used spies to obtain the complete plans for the largest ground invasion in military history, the German invasion of Russia in WWII.

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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Hitler was an idiot to invade Russia or he was intentionally destroying Germany. Russia is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar to vast and did not have sufficient supply lines. They would have done MUCH better to let Russia come to Germany, which they would have, and deal with the distance and supply line problems.

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

It's been a while but I think the Germans needed certain supplies that they could only find in Russia, to the point it was the only way they could win the war. But my memory is kind of hazy.

Yeah, no one can just beat General Winter.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Read Red Symphony, both Hitler and Stalin received wallstreet funding. Someone wanted a gigantic war. Hitler, however, did not know who was funding him, Schacht did, who was also a Freemason and British agent. When hitler fired him that is when things started to go downhill.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting news to me, though I'm no authority on WWII by any means. That would at least explain a bit more than the typical Hitler-wanted-to-take-over-the-world shit.

Regardless, if they were smarter they would have fortified their fuel supply lines.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Stalin was going to take over Europe, no doubt about that. Germany was used as buffer that was then turned on. Hitler and his army commanders made idiotic mistakes, there's no doubt about that.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If Hitler wasn't created, Stalin would have ordered his 12million men, army, over 15,000 tanks and 22,000 airplanes to over-run Europe.

When Ribbentrop came on June 27, Hitler laughingly exclaimed that he felt like the legendary horseman who having unwittingly ridden across the frozen Lake Constance died of horror when he learned what he had done :  “If I had had the slightest inkling of this gigantic Red Army assemblage I would never have taken the decision to attack.”

David Irving - CRUSADE INTO RUSSIA; The Country Poacher

Visiting Army Group Center on August 4, Hitler wanly admitted to his panzer commander General Guderian :  “ Had I known they had as many tanks as that, I’d have thought twice before invading.”

Halder wholly misinformed Hitler on the Russian strengths, realized this only in mid-August 1941, but continued to make the same error.

[–]Rah 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He couldn't have known the extent of which the USSR received American funding and equipment. He wanted to finish the war before their supplies and infrastrucure was complete. They almost did it; it finished when they sieged Moscow and got pushed back for the first time.