
History Extra podcast - June 2007
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Hitler's Decision-Making Process in the Second World War
Hitler's war planning was always predicated on that Germany had to fight another war basically to undo the outcome of the first world war. He said in an atoria so-called prophecy on the 30th of January 1939, in the event of another war the result will not be the destruction of Germany but the annihilation of Düre. It's an indication of Hitler's mentality that lasted throughout the war. In the first phase of the war he was making easy victories at very little costs for Germany. But as soon as the war in the east took place it was the worst decision and arguably the worst decision of the war.
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