> you had over 5 million soviet soldiers in germany by the time of hitlers suicide i literally posted you a picture dropped by the cia under the freedom of information act of hitler alive in colombia xd > 2.5 million surrounding berlin and inside only 1.5 million actually took part in the assault, anyhow.  > the nero orders were futile and racial suicide was inevitable either way no. were the spartans at thermopylae futile? was racial suicide inevitable when rome fell? there even was a post-war ira-style insurgency in south tyrol. funniest part of that is: natsoc veterans and former anti-hitler "resistance" worked together during that one xd > the only germans left after ww2 were east germans who embraced defeat and reconciled by working with stalin nah, that was occupation too, at least the soviets knew when to leave. > furthermore hitlers fortress doctrine was abysmal and cost the lives of millions of germans literally just copied to soviet fortress doctrine from 1941 and austro-german tactics from ww1, it's memed to death as bad, but it was rational. > here is where i cannot forgive hitler, the bombing of rotterdam which slaughtered civilians the dutch were stalling the surrender of the city til the last minute; the order to bomb them was called off but the radio message couldn't get through in time, and the impact of the bombing was vastly exaggerated by the allied press.  > there was no reason for the germans to invade the soviet union other than lebenssraum there was actually a whole tragic backstory about the unnecessary war. from the lithuanian border strip to the bukovina question, the resettlement of ethnic germans as well as belarusians/ruthenians, the winter war, franco-turkish documents scandal, finnish election meddling, molotov's ultimatum, the legionist coup in romania, the army coup in belgrade etc. most importantly the british ambassador contacting stalin for an alliance and the japanese concluding a non-aggression pact with the soviets.
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