Chapter 1: Introduction
When the NSDAP and Hitler came to power in 1933 in Germany everyone expected that the 3rd Reich would never ally with the Soviet Union founded in 1922 following the Russian civil war. Moscow which was isolated during The 1930s and 20s saw rapid industrialization under Joseph Stalin, which nevertheless had a major humanitarian impact. In Germany with the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles and the economic crisis of 1929 the NSDAP under Adolf Hitler rose to power after Hindenburg and consolidated its power in 1934 with the Night of the Long Knives transforming Germany into a nationalist totalitarian regime . The following years were a huge success for the führer, the annexation of the Saarlands, remilitarization of the Rhine, remilitarization of Germany, Anschluss, crisis of the Sudetenland, dismantling of Czechoslovakia and Annexation of Memel were great successes for the German regime. In the meantime, Germany had forged links with Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan forming the Axis, this military alliance had the objective of countering the Soviet Comintern but future events completely changed the objectives of the alliance.
All opposed the Soviet and German regimes, one was Ultranationalist, anti-Semitic, fiercely anti-communist and wanted to conquer lebensraum including all the European territories of the Soviet Union, the second was internationalist, anti-Capitalist and anti-Fascist. However the stupidity of the British government and French allowed the 2nd regime to form a terrible invisible alliance which crushed the armies of the West and that of Japan, a former ally of Berlin having changed camps after the Russo-Germanic alliance and who joined the allied camp in 1940 after the offensive Russian in Manchuria. These events of the Second World War clearly show how pragmatism always ends up winning over ideology, political regimes will always make choices contradictory to their ideology but politically logic.
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