We get into how you define victory over USSR. He thought the state would collapse, the infamous “kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will fall down”. Then they would doubtlessly ethnic cleanse.
There was a difference between Napoleon’s and Hitler’s strategy. Napoleon went straight for Moscow like an arrow, ignoring everything else. He got it, but then what? Hitler saw that and knew that didn’t work, so he launched a broad invasion on the North, Central, and South all at once. The goal was a total collapse, so that there wasn’t much left to do military activity (not on any significant scale like with tanks and planes). Course there were other problems with that.
We get into how you define victory over USSR. He thought the state would collapse, the infamous “kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will fall down”. Then they would doubtlessly ethnic cleanse.
There was a difference between Napoleon’s and Hitler’s strategy. Napoleon went straight for Moscow like an arrow, ignoring everything else. He got it, but then what? Hitler saw that and knew that didn’t work, so he launched a broad invasion on the North, Central, and South all at once. The goal was a total collapse, so that there wasn’t much left to do military activity (not on any significant scale like with tanks and planes). Course there were other problems with that.