Hitler declared that he wanted to attack the Soviet Union because it would give Germany the "space and resources needed for his master world." He also wanted to strike before England and the Union made an alliance.
Hitler planned to take land for Lebensraum (more living space that the Aryan, - i.e.the Germans - deserve because they are superior) in the East. Furthermore, he wanted to destroy Communism which he considered as a threat. He also wanted to acquire the resources: oil and grain. He wanted to use Slav people as slaves because he considered them as inferior.
Germany attacked the Soviets for resources and to eliminate all enemies quickly. The Germans knew the Soviets held massive amounts of gas.
Operation Barbarossa was the German attack plan for the attack on the Soviet Union.
Operation Barbarossa was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on 22nd June 1941.
Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
Germany and the Soviet-Union were the two nations that made a pact not to attack each other. The full name of the Soviet Union was the U.S.S.R (United Soviet Socialist Republic). They made this pact so Germany wouldn't have to fight another war on two fronts (the eastern and western fronts). In a secret part of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, Hitler and Stalin (the Pact was secret) agreed to split Poland between them.
In 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Non Aggression Pact. This was basically a document that said that neither country would attack the other during wartime. This was broken in 1941 when Hitler and his army invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa; this was Hitler's fatal mistake.
June 22,1941
germany
It ended when Germany launched a sneak attack on Russia in 1940. The division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union
germany and soviet union
Operation Barbarossa was the German attack plan for the attack on the Soviet Union.
It didn't. Unless you count the Soviet counter-attack against Nazi Germany in 1942-45.
Operation Barbarossa was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on 22nd June 1941.
The Soviet Union
Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
Germany and the Soviet-Union were the two nations that made a pact not to attack each other. The full name of the Soviet Union was the U.S.S.R (United Soviet Socialist Republic). They made this pact so Germany wouldn't have to fight another war on two fronts (the eastern and western fronts). In a secret part of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, Hitler and Stalin (the Pact was secret) agreed to split Poland between them.
In 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Non Aggression Pact. This was basically a document that said that neither country would attack the other during wartime. This was broken in 1941 when Hitler and his army invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa; this was Hitler's fatal mistake.
becauese of the soviet union