The more I think about world war 2 and Hitler, the more I think to myself these following thoughts.
1) He had some incredible balls to attack, not Poland in September 1939, which was formerly part of the German Empire, so he was just taking back what Germany already owned, but, in the Spring of 1940, all the countless countries surrounding Germany.
2) He had no brain to attack Russia instead of simply going after Great Britain and finishing his task of conquering Europe. That was really really dumb of him. He could have easily conquered Great Britain with the
millions of men he invested in the Russian campaign. From the soldier interviews I have heard, also his soldiers did not understand the attack against Russia.
All he needed to do was to cross that 33 km that separated the Germans from the British. London was very near, too. I mean, it was done. Why the hell didn't he go ahead with it? It makes me very upset, after playing all those risk games.
This is in my opinion the biggest question about world war 2. Why didn't Hitler attack Great Britain?
He owed it to his generals and to his people. Who had been so obedient and so efficient up to that moment.
Oh, well.
It's just that it is frustrating to study history and to keep coming across these millions of deaths that were the consequence of one single mistake. One single mistake, and he lost his own life, and that of 40 million other people.
If, after conquering France in June 1940, with a European total toll of less than 200,000 deaths (not counting the Poles and the Jews), he had completed the conquest of Europe, the war would have ended in the Summer of 1940. England could not have resisted longer than 2 months. The colonies and the US would have stayed out of the war, and world war 2 would have ended.
Unfortunately Hitler as a child could not practice strategies by playing a few games of risk or he would not have attacked Russia. He could not play risk, because of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_(game)
Risk is a strategy board game produced by Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro). It was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957 as La Conquête du Monde ("The Conquest of the World") in France. It was later bought by Parker Brothers and released in 1959 with some modifications to the rules as Risk: The Continental Game, then as Risk: The Game of Global Domination.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Lamorisse
Albert Lamorisse (French: [lamɔʁis]; 13 January 1922 – 2 June 1970) was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer, who is best known for his award winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s, and also for inventing the famous strategic board game Risk in 1957.
Here is one of his films:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon
It won numerous awards, including an Oscar for Lamorisse for writing the best original screenplay in 1956 and the Palme d'Or for short films at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The film also became popular with children and educators. This is the only short film to win the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay).
So, anyway, risk was invented 17 years too late. So the following video is obviously a hoax. This game never took place, although it is a very intelligent video:
"Hitler gets betrayed in a game of Risk"
Oh, look, here is a related video:
"Eddie Izzard - "Hitler never played Risk as a kid""
This is interesting, too:
