
24 Oct 2014, 20:49
Thanks for posting this. I'd never heard it before. Hitler was most definitely not a fool by any stretch of the imagination. There were a whole lot of reasons why the Nazis invaded Soviet territory and their underestimating the soviet military potential only made their predictions and calculations of a quick victory all the more false.

29 Oct 2014, 06:10
Great find. Seems like Hitler underestimated Soviet production capacity. If I am not mistaken the Soviet Union was already producing more armaments than Nazi Germany by 1942, which was the height of Axis power.

15 Nov 2014, 03:00
I don't think he was a madman either. He was just a nazi.
It's strange that Hitler says that Soviet demands were "extortion". The deal was fair imo. Of course there was the delivery of the Prinz Eugen and other technology, but they received a lot of raw material including oil. It's a pity that the recording stops at the most interesting moment.