In the summer, the temperatures can soar well above one hundred degrees, this being the case primarily on the massive steppes, where trees do not grow and there is very scant shade, and in the winter they drop well below zero, sometimes touching twenty degrees below, Fahrenheit. The second major factor facing an invading army are the extreme weather patterns. In several regions of the country, primarily in the western Ukraine, the region is dominated by wooded swampland, the most grandiose and impassible being the Pripet Marshes. Along with this, the nation is crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers and rivulets, ranging from small creeks to massive rivers stretching up to two miles in width, such as the river Volga or river Don. While the north and central portions of the nation, from Russia’s border with Poland to Moscow, the region is heavily forested, yet as one ventures further south, in the direction of the Caucasus Mountain Range and the Ukraine, the forests begin to taper away and are replaced by massive, semiarid steppes, plateaus so massive that you can see hundreds of miles in every direction. Yet the Soviet Union in itself presented several insurmountable obstacles, the first and foremost being the terrain. If he invaded the USSR, he could topple the Jewish-Bolshevik regime he was so inclined to hate, as well as securing living space for his people.
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The Soviet Union, the largest nation in sheer surface area in the world, presented the greatest opportunity, and, if and when it was invaded by the German Army, Hitler could kill the proverbial “two birds with one stone”. It essentially meant uprooting inhabitants of a certain area and replacing them with German settlers, the quintessential Aryan, the model German Hitler was attempting to populate the nation with. The concept of this “living space” ideology was quite simple.
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One of Hitler’s fundamental philosophies was that of the concept of “ Lebensraum“, meaning literally “living space”. After the Reichstag caught fire on February 27th, 1933, Hitler utilized this to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree on February 28th and Enabling Act on March 23rd, eliminating opposition to the Nazi party in parliament). In his autobiography, Mein Kampf, written in 1925 while Hitler was imprisoned for attempting a coup against the faltering Weimar Republic two years earlier, Hitler laid out his dogma for what would become the defining principles of the Nazi regime, that would seize power with Hitler’s election as chancellor on January 30th, 1933 (although when Hitler was elected chancellor, only two other prominent NASDAP members held seats in the Reichstag, Hermann Goering and Wilhelm Frick. Topping the list of most scholars of the Second World War as Hitler’s most climactic blunder was his invasion of the Soviet Union, yet the reasons for such a conception are deeper and far more faceted than just his almost perpetual hatred for what he viewed as the “Jewish-Bolshevik” plot. Operation Barbarossa: the Invasion of the United Soviet Socialists Republic