Nazi Russia invasion

>>132406963
Russia was likely going to initiate some type of military action against at least Eastern Europe in the near future at the time.
There's no natural defensible border between German and Russian-occupied Poland at the time, nor is there really a good defensible border in Eastern Europe as a whole. Therefore whichever army attacked first was at a huge strategic advantage.
The USSR had a much larger population, larger total industrial capacity if utilized, and much more natural resources than Nazi Germany. This meant that Germany essentially had to strike first if it believed that war between the two countries was inevitable or that it would almost certainly lose in a confrontation.

>>132406963
Because it would create the only timeline where anime becomes real

File: 1499178735874.jpg (31KB, 644x598px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 644x598px

>>132406963
>lebensraum
wew
also germany struck at the best possible time partly because the soviets was still recovering from their purged officer corps
second it wasnt the germans who opened up the second front it was the allies

Oil. Germany was desperate for fuel during most of the war and the Soviets were the closest oil rich country.

Because strategic picture and military logic had consistently eluded bavarian corporal.