Hitler's Defeat by the Soviet Union

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The paper explains how Hitler was a brilliant, unbalanced military leader. His early military decisions should have given him the war. However, the paper discusses how his inability to follow the direction of his military advisors and the advice of his military commanders all but rendered those decisions to be insignificant. His choices to divide his forces and to hold on to every scrap of land that he had conquered without regard to the consequences, combined with the severe Russian winter conditions, caused him to lose rather than to win the control of Europe.

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"In 1941, Adolf Hitler was on the verge of defeating the Soviet Union's army in their home country. Until that time, they had run a series of successful campaigns, allowing the German army to almost walk up to Moscow and walk right in. Yet in April 1945, the Soviets were entering Hitler's bunker in Berlin, not only snatching victory from his grasp, but also smashing the Wehrmacht. What was the key factor that led to this stunning reversal? Did Hitler simply underestimate the capabilities of the Soviet army while overestimating those of his own? Or were there other factors that contributed? No analysis of the German-Soviet conflict in WWII is complete without attempting to answer this important question."

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