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Why Did Hitler Invade Stalingrad?
I'm doing a project on the battle of Stalingrad and I wanted to know why Hitler did it. I need an argument for why he did it for the actual city for everything that it involved. Such as the manufacturing and communication center of the south. If you have any other information about the battle of Stalingrad that would be great too.
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- ScottLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
In a nutshell, he didn't want to invade Britain because they had neither the space or resources to aid in the vast growth he had planned for the German Empire. The next best choice was the Soviet Union.
Hitler did in fact order preparations to be made for an invasion of England, but he was always half-hearted in his desire to mount a large seaborne landing. Germany, unlike Britain, was not a sea power and the Channel was a real b**** to deal with. Even if air superiority could be gained, there remained the British Navy, which was pretty darn powerful at the time. And there was another, ideological, reason why Hitler was not fully committed to invading Britain; or him, it would have been a distraction. Britain contained neither the space, nor the raw materials, that he believed the new German Empire needed. And he admired the British - Hitler often remarked how much he envied their achievement in subjugating India.
All this meant that, from Hitler's point of view, there was an alternative to invading Britain: he could invade the Soviet Union. Both Hitler and his military planners knew that Germany's best chance of victory was for the war in Europe to be finished swiftly.
