HIST 326 Lecture Notes - Belorussian Military District, Lebensraum, Wage War
Document Summary
The ussr and total war the great patriotic war. Europe which gave the ussr another 100 million people to be a field for experimentation and soviet satellites for economic resources and from whose ideological loyalty would also occur with few exceptions. Hungary, being the exceptions overall, it was related strictly to the victory of 1945: human loss = wwii cost the ussr 26. 7 million individuals = incredible figure hard to even process. Main = barbarous manner in which the war was launched upon the east = germans as occupiers in france and czechoslovakia did not have the same criteria that were placed upon the slavic eastern populations. Ideological thrust of the german plan for war was a war of extermination to root out the jewish. Discussion of questions: road to war why was there war, soviet union was an active participant in the process that led to the 1941 invasion - the ussr negotiated with.
