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When Hitler Thought He'd Be Home by August: The Most Expensive Temper Tantrum in History

When Hitler Thought He'd Be Home by August: The Most Expensive Temper Tantrum in History

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On June 22nd, 1941, the largest military invasion in human history began when Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. What makes this particularly noteworthy beyond its sheer scale is the staggering arrogance and miscalculation that underpinned it. Adolf Hitler, convinced of Soviet weakness and his own military genius, deployed over three million German soldiers along an eighteen hundred mile front stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. He famously predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse like a house of cards, estimating the campaign would take a mere eight to ten weeks. His generals drew up plans for a victory parade in Moscow by August. The Germans achieved complete tactical surprise despite the Soviets receiving at least eighty four separate warnings about the impending attack from various intelligence sources. Joseph Stalin, in one of history's most catastrophic failures of judgment, dismissed every single warning as British propaganda designed to provoke a conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union. Soviet border guards were so unprepared that some German units literally had to wake sleeping Russian sentries as they crossed into Soviet territory. The invasion mobilized six hundred thousand vehicles, seven hundred fifty thousand horses, and three thousand aircraft. In the opening hours, the Luftwaffe destroyed nearly two thousand Soviet planes, most of them sitting helplessly on the ground. Within days, entire Soviet armies were encircled and captured. Yet Hitler's eight week prediction would prove to be one of the most disastrous underestimations in military history. The campaign would drag on for nearly four years, cost Germany the war, and result in approximately twenty seven million Soviet deaths. That June morning marked the beginning of the bloodiest theater of the bloodiest war humanity has ever known.
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