Many people have balked at Hitlers, plans, risks, and Gambles…
And other that winning, what was his strategy? Nobody can really say for sure, everyone just criticizes the obvious mistakes… Doing stupid things like never retreating, and holding onto Stalingrad…
But I’ve thought about this concept lately, and I think this was what he had in mind.
“War’s are fought in the will”
He didn’t invade Russia to kill every Russian, he came to conquer it for a number of reasons… to conquer a people, is simple in theory, you need to break their will. You break their will by destroying their means (tools, organization etc) to fight, and make choosing peace the better option.
I think that’s what his grand plan was… hence why he sued for a Vichy france, instead of total conquest… Suddenly doing things like holding Stalingrad, and Never retreating, appear as parting of the strategy of will exhertion… THE SAME overall strategy that seemed to keep the British in the game.
Also the Nazi concept of TOTAL WAR, was ALL about will, so much will infact, that the design was to convince every person in Europe to defeat the Asiatic Communist hordes as a team.
Just a neuron firing…
Anyone else have any thoughts/elaboration?