Comments by "Lars Ronæs" (@larsrons7937) on "Goebbels on the German Food Crisis 1942-1943" video.

@orclover2353 Everybody believed that Hitler couldn't win a two front war. Stalin knew it. I am quite sure that Hitler knew it as well. But in 1941 (Barbarossa) and almost 1942 as well Hitler was only at war with England on paper, with not much real war going on - except for the battle of the Atlantic (and Italy's own war in North Africa). Hitler didn't have a real two front war yet. As Hitler expected the war against USSR to be won in 1941 or 42 at the latest, he would expect to avoid a real two front war. Then we cannot call him insane for that (but ignorant yes). At Dunquerque Hitler stopped the tanks, yet bombed the British war equipment to smithereens but let their soldiers escape to "fight another day". Stalin knew that Hitler could not attack as to avoid a two front war. Hitler knew he wouldn't have a "real" two front war because the British army couldn't fight without equipment. By the time they would have produced new equipment, Hitler would already have won the war on the eastern front. I believe that Hitler was clever enough and quite sane as such, but had a few but crucial faults in his beliefs which distorted ideas and grand plans. He could not win that war. But in the way he believed the world worked, he could and would.
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@orclover2353 Yes you're absolutely right, Hitler was ignorant, in my belief as well. So "ignorant" I have now changed in my previous comment. But kept "not insane" which I believe he was not. Perhaps "mad", but sane enough.
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TIK has explained that in his video about why Hitler had to go to war.
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Had Hitler not gone to war against USSR until 1942 he would most probably have continued to buy food from the Soviets, at least for some time (Hitler believed that trade could not go on forever). But... How much food Germany bought I don't know, but it must have been a lot if it is true that Stalin starved the western parts of the Soviet Union in order to sell food to Germany. But starvation would eventually come to Germany - at least as long as Germany was at war and under blockade - as food deliverances from the USSR at some point would dry up. Germans would not only go hungry, they would die. At the end of the war the "Morgenthau plan" (...to destroy Germany's industry and turn the country into a purely agricultural society) showed that the land in Germany could only feed 60%. Which means that 40% of the population would starve to death. Which in turn was one of the main reasons why that plan was abandoned in favour of the "Marshall Plan" (rebuild their industry for the sake of international trade and world recovery after the war).
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@lhproductions00 I recommend you to watch TIK's video "Public vs. Private", which I expect will give you a very different perspective, and better understanding his reasoning in the present video.
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