Rolf-Dieter Müller is the scientific director of the Military History Research Centre for the Bundeswehr. Reputed respected scholar. This draws attention to his book called "The enemy is in the East. Hitler's secret plans for war against the Soviet Union in 1939. It is based on the documents was first discovered, or "forgotten" in the archives of the Wehrmacht. Commenting on this work, the Berlin newspaper Welt noted yesterday, that the study "explains the Second World War a whole new way."
As is known, interpretations of this theme a lot. Former generals Wehrmacht's claim that the attack on Russia was of a preventive nature. Happens, and some Russian writers consciously or unconsciously to whitewash Hitler thesis about the "randomness" aggression they unleashed. Many German historians and commentators call the action while the Fuhrer and risky, but a deliberate strategy: first defeat of France and providing logistics in the West, and only after the conquest of "living space" on Soviet expanse.
In support is generally referred to on the memoirs of a former Swiss diplomat and the Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig Carl Burckhardt. He, in particular, brings the following statement by Hitler on August 11, 1939: "Everything I make is directed against Russia, but if the West is too stupid and blind to understand this, then I will have to negotiate with the Russian, to strike the West, but after his defeat to apply all my forces assembled against the Soviet Union. "
Rolf-Dieter Muller interested, however, does not Precedence steps Fuhrer, and the essence: "all directed against Russia." And he cites evidence that Hitler was about to start a Nazi robbery in Europe, namely with the attack on the Soviet Union, really prepared for this.
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