The Decision That Lost Hitler World War Two

By: Matt Buttsworth

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

From the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa thousands of Soviet citizens wanted to ally with the German side in an attempt to overthrow the hated communist system, an alliance that many of the leaders of the Wehrmacht desperately wanted. However, in their attempt to create this alliance, they had one enemy far worse than Stalin. That was Hitler himself, who was determined to exploit, starve and kill the Slavic Untermensch no matter what this cost in terms of the willingness of the Soviet peoples to ally with the German forces. This article is a a fascinating examination of the repeated increasingly desperate attempts by Wehrmacht officers to create this alliance and Hitler's repeated destruction of these attempts. The high point of these attempts to overthrow the racist exploitative Nazi occupation policies of occupied Soviet areas was a meeting of the German High Command and officials from the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Exploitation of Foreign Lands in Berlin December 1942 which adopted a series of recommendations which were put to Hitler on January 7 1943. Both the details of this meeting, and of Hitler's rejection of its demands are unknown in English texts. An essential read for those interested in the reasons for German defeat on the Eastern front, in the anticommunist and independence movements of this period (usually referred to as collaborators or traitors), and in the existence and fate in World War Two of 'an other Germany.'