Why did operation Barbarossa happen?

Answer 1

Operation Barbarossa or the Eastern Front was a military campaign launched by Hitler with ''Lebensraum'' in mind, or as im sure you don't speak German, living space for the German people in the east, as the Ussr gave the element of lebensraum, and so Hitler launched an assault on the Soviet Union, it failed for many reasons, like making many inexistant objective like Smolensk, it had no strantegic value but army group center entered the city on their way to Moscow, Leningrad was a Blunder in the German's invasion due to the siege lasted the whole invasion and never captured the city; the soviets were actually sending supply to leningrad via lake ladoga, Stalingrad, now Volgograd, could not be encircled and destroyed due to its back being the Volga river and the Germans did not have any landing crafts, at Stalingrad the Germans lost the bulk of the German Sixth army as Hitler did not want Friedrich Paulus, commander of the sixth army, to surrender or to retreat, the winter's as Hitler never went to the eastern front in person, he did not believer his generals when they said it was -40 degree's celsius and Hitler thought it would be a 6 months campaign and so, left them in their summer uniforms, and industries they played a major role on the eastern front, the t-34 the main battle tank of the ussr could be produced in bulk due to her revatively simple design but not the new Panther or Tigers as they were extremelly well engenered, all and all it is widely accepted that without Hitler, the Germans could have defeated the Soviets but it was Hitler's horrible military leadership that killed any of those chances

Answer 2

Hitler invaded the USSR (the whole invasion is know as operation Barbarossa) because he wanted to defeat communism happening in USSR, take over land in USSR and use the Soviet people for slave labour. Also, he knew certain feilds of Ukraine and oil fields of Caucasus would be handy.

Answer 3

Hitler conducted Operation Barbarossa with out realizing the climate of Russia was far worse than in Germany. He failed to understand he could not supply his troops when they were too far away. He failed to understand the USSR had the ability to cream his troops but Stalin was saving his troops for war on the eastern front. Hitler defeated himself by his own poor decisions and he would not allow his Generals to bring the troops home when they were dying from the cold and starvation.

Answer 4

Operation Barbarossa caused a few problems for the Germans. Here are some examples of them;

• The axis had 4 Million troops with 4,300 Tanks whilst the USSR had 5.5 Million Troops and 25,700 tanks.
• Germany had to try to maintain a huge front of a size of 1,800 Miles.
• By the end of the Battle of Kiev, Germany ran out of reserves and that was what they needed.

Answer 5

The mistake was to fight a two-front war between Russia in the East and the Allies in the West .

Answer 6

Operation Barbarossa was both a success and failure for the Germans. It was successful in terms of Tactical and Operational as the Germans were able to kill 8 Million people.

Answer 7

they all died in toxic