I knew Hitler was a back stabber but.

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I was just watching a documentary on the sick fuck, not that Stalin was any  better. But I did not know before Hitler invaded Poland he had signed a non aggression pact with Russia/Stalin, only to later stupidly try to invade Russia. It's a good thing assholes are stupid.

Did you sleep through your high school history class?

It is easy to say with hindsight and weight of uninformed conventional wisdom that german invasion of Russia was without serious prospect of success.  The reality is neither the British nor the Americans general staffs credit Russia with significant prospect of successfully resisting the Germans, even after winter 1941.  The US war plan in 1941-1942 envisioned eventually raising 360 army division to take on bulk of the Wehrmacht, as oppose to less than 1/3 of the Wehrmacht the western allies eventually had to contend with, courtesy of the Russians.  What is more, the Germans were far closer to actually succeeding in crushing Russia that conventional wisdom would credit, and the gap was largely due to avoidable errors and own goals of a sort that perhaps one would not have expected a military steeped in the Prussian general staff tradition to make.

'tis a good thing then that Hitler made his own "strategies", ultimately leading to his loss. Had he listened to the appropriate military men, we'd all be speaking German.