The Battle for Russia was Hitler's biggest gamble. Operation Barbarossa as it was called, assembled the largest mechanized force the world had ever seen, and if it was successful, Hitler would do what Napoleon could not, defeat the Russians. One of the reasons Hitler decided to invade Russia was to wipe out the Jewish Bolshevik threat to Germany and the threat it posed to the rest of Europe. The other reason was to establish a lebensraum, a new territory for the growing German population to make Germany a self-sustaining and self-reliant nation.

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