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Originally Posted by ceire
From my limited understand. Gas chambers was in response to the demoralising effect the mass shooting/graves was having on the German men (think I heard they also had gas vans, basically portable gas chambers)
the vans that were supposedly used to suffocate people in the beginnning of the holocaust werent really gas vans. it is claimed they used the exhaust fumes to suffocate the poor souls locked in the back of the truck.
i have heard different oppinion on how much if at all these vans were used.
its often complicated to discern what actually happend and what was propagand or a myth since there has been so much outrages brutality and suffering in that period of time but also a ton of propaganda.
For example it is still commonly believed churchill walked around drunk outside during a german bombing raid on london, while that was proven to be nazi propaganda.
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Originally Posted by ceire
Hitler did say about the Russians being "a rotten structure that would collapse when the door is kick in" or something along them lines.
I think the mini wars Russia suck at against inferior opposite helped shape his opinion.
thats pretty much exactly what he said and it is what just happend a few decades ago in the 1.wolrd war.
see the german plan for the first world war (the schlieffen plan) was to throw everything they had at france and crush them quickly to be able to turn around and do the same thing to russia.
there was only a small holding force stationed at the russianboarder commanded by von hindenburg and ludendorf (actually they took over the command after the german forces wre defated in the battle of gumbingen).
this small army was just supposed to hold its position untill it could get reinforced by the troops from the western front after frances defeat.
now it didnt exactly work out like that.
The westernfront turned into this huge meatgrinder and easternfront could not be reinforced like originally planned.
to everybodys suprise the small german holding force was still able to not only hold their positions but to actually advance one of the main reasons for that was the outbreak of the russian revolution.
in the second world war the wehrmacht was extremely successfull in the beginning of the war the invasion of poland, france etc alll just took days to weeks while the russian army violently got its ass handed to them in finnland.
so it wasnt to far fetched to think the sowjetunion might collapse when you just "kick in the door" after all that just happend not too long ago and the red army didnt exactly look too threatening at that time.