Jabarkan Turkistan (wilayah Asia Tengah) dari Operasi Barbarossa

Kebijakan Nazi bertujuan untuk menghancurkan Uni Soviet sebagai entitas politik sesuai dengan geopolitik untuk kepentingan masa depan generasi " Arya ".

Operasi Barbarossa adalah untuk menggabungkan serangan ke arah utara Leningrad, sebuah simbolis merebut Moskow, dan strategi ekonomi merebut ladang minyak di selatan di luar Ukraina. Hitler dan para jenderalnya yang tidak setuju pada aspek-aspek ini harus memperoleh prioritas dan Jerman harus memfokuskan energi; menentukan prioritas diperlukan kompromi. Hitler menganggap dirinya politikus dan militer jenius. Ketika merencanakan Barbarossa selama tahun 1940 dan 1941, dalam banyak diskusi dengan para jenderalnya, Hitler mengulangi perintah: "Leningrad pertama, kedua Basin Donetsk, Moskow ketiga."  Hitler tidak sabar untuk melanjutkan invasi ke timur. Ia yakin Inggris akan menuntut perdamaian, setelah Jerman menang di Uni Soviet. Jenderal Franz Halder mencatat dalam buku hariannya itu, bahwa dengan menghancurkan Uni Soviet, Jerman akan menghancurkan harapan kemenangan Inggris.

Hitler terlalu percaya diri dari keberhasilan yang pesat di Eropa Barat dan kebodohan Tentara Merah dalam Perang Musim Dingin melawan Finlandia pada 1939-40. Dia mengharapkan kemenangan dalam waktu beberapa bulan, tetapi tidak mempersiapkan diri untuk sebuah perang yang berlangsung dalam musim dingin.

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Huge Peta online secara detail pada 22 Juni 1941. Dislokasi Soviet dan Angkatan Udara dan Darat Jerman dalam satu jam sebelum invasi.