Hitler attacked Russia in 1941, to rescue supplies of food and oil from the Russian territories of Ukraine and the Caucasus.
According to Hitler, a war against Russia would acquire Lebensraum (“living space”) in Eastern Europe to ensure the survival of Germany for generations to come. It would relieve acute labour shortage and all these would combine to leave Germany in an unassailable global position of power.
The consequences of the war was :
1. The operation blundered because the blitzkrieg was not fast enough.
2. The kind of force the Soviet Union could pull together was underestimated.
3. An underestimation of the cold winter
