Hitler was Wrong, No kidding

"Never wage war with Russia..."
Count Otto von Bismarck,
Furst, Herzog von Lauenburg
first Prime Minister of the united Germany

No, no, of course Hitler was wrong. What I don’t understand, is that he was wrong even by his own convoluted logic. And that’s something that does not add up, no matter how you look at it. Let’s see…

According to Hitler, ancestors of Germans lived in a cold, harsh land, where every day was a fight for the survival. These hostile conditions were weeding our weak for centuries, leaving the strongest, the fittest, the best. The playground of evolution, where human beings had to evolve or die… every generation.

We all know what happens if every generation is selectively culled down. After all, that’s how our crops and vegetables and animals that we use became what they are now. Keep only the piglets from fattest pigs, and in a century you will have huge pigs. Keep only colts from fastest horses, and in a century you will have the fastest horses in the world. Keep only trees that give sweetest and largest apples, and you get trees that give large and sweet apples. That’s simple. So, by Nazi’s logic, the cold and harsh conditions of their legendary homeland kept only those of German ancestors who were strongest, fastest, smartest, fittest. So, Hitler concluded, Germans evolved into a better breed of humans, superhumans. It’s only logical, isn’t it?

Hence, Hitler concluded, Germans are superior to all other races and must be the masters of the World. The time was right, Germans were just recovering from the devastating defeat in the World War I; their national pride in shambles, and desire to beat the crap out of whoever is responsible for that was ruling the people’s minds. Hitler came to the defeated and worn-out people and told them, “You are the best. You are fit to rule the World. Yes, it’s a bad time, but we are the best, we’ll survive and win. Follow me, and you’ll have food, you’ll have land, and you’ll have victories.” And they followed.

So, he became the ruler of Germany. In a completely democratic way, by the way, through legitimate elections. Then he proved his point by leading Germans and conquering the whole Western Europe with significant portions of Eastern Europe and Africa. And then, he did a really strange thing…

You see, in his time there was still a cold, hostile land, where every day was a fight for the survival. I wonder, what was he thinking trying to invade this land? Whom did he expected to find there?

Sure, he expected to find there “inferior” races – Slavs, Tatars, Semites, and he found them all right. Only those “inferior” races lived and survived in the very conditions that, according to his own theory, made the ancestors of Germans “superhumans”. And these Slavs, Tatars and Semites did not just evolved and moved to a warm land like Germans did. They continued to live there and adapted so well, that they mostly sneered at “ignorant Westerners” who think their land is cold, finding the land quite comfortable, lovely and worth fighting for.

According to his own theory, the only reasonable outcome of invading this land would be the defeat of Germany, which actually followed. In a harshly ironic sense, the fall of Germany in the World War II was a proof of Hitler’s own theory. But did it came at a too high price for his country?

I really don’t understand… what on Earth did he think invading Russia?