Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, episode 132,

Operation Barbarossa, one of who knows how many?

To separate Hitler from his various hatreds from his worldview, which influenced his foreign

policy would be a big mistake.

For example, the man did not hate Britain or England as he thought of it.

He admired their production capability, their wealth, their status in the world, their

stop-hardiness, yet he didn't like Britain.

So they could be more or less left alone if they would just learn their place in this

new world of order, this German centric Europe.

But Hitler hated he loathed communism and Stalin.

The former was, like the Jews, the cause of so many problems, problems he had to deal with

as a leader.

As far as the man in Moscow, he had been a reasonable pragmatic leader working with Germany one

minute and then the next, a shrewd calculating arrogant, baffling, domineering, zalmenc.

See the book thief?

Well he and his country were about to get their comeuppance.

To Hitler's skewed worldview, the only thing that held Britain back from concluding a sensible

compromise with Nazi Germany was its hope in Russia.

As long as Russia stood, sharing a border with the dominant Germany, Britain would try

to trick them into fighting each other, to bleed Germany, to make it weak.

So the British could come in and take all that was possible.

That was their way.

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