Adolf Hitler carried out two decisions that not only guaranteed Nazi Germany’s defeat in the Second World War, but completely changed the course of human history.The first, which was actually decided the previous year but put into action in June 1941, is well-known.On Sunday, 22 June 1941, German forces advanced into Soviet territory in defiance of the treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Operation Barbarossa, as it was called, was essential to Hitler’s dream of subjugating Russia and creating a new homeland for Germans in the east.Hitler ordered that Soviet troops were to be “annihilated,” an order that led to some of the most shocking atrocities of that bloody conflict.On the Soviet side, at least 26 million people were.
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