HST 540 Lecture 14: operation barbarossa & pearl harbour
4 Nov 2017
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June 1941: one of the greatest intelligence failures of all time, context: understand the nazi-soviet pact, mein kampf, blitzkrieg, napoleon bonaparte, hitle(cid:396)"s failu(cid:396)es, timing: hitler chose to invade in june, move quickly, and take moscow, leningrad (st. Winter and know how to prepare: deployment: he had to send 1/6 of his armies to the balkan states to support the. Italians in fighting the rebellious yugoslavians: also did(cid:374)"t fi(cid:374)ish off b(cid:396)itai(cid:374) (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e (cid:373)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g t(cid:396)oops to russia. Intelligence: he had abwehr, forschungsamt (comint), and fremde heere ost (fho; Foreign armies east) and he didn"t li tennnn: they st(cid:396)uggled to tell/(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)e hitle(cid:396) of thi(cid:374)gs he did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to hea(cid:396, they struggled to account for the difficulty of what they wanted to accomplish. Russia with documented orders, and turn themselves in to russian. Japan had developed a racial superiority complex, much like the germans: also heavily influenced by britain and the us; they wanted to be a great power, like.
