Quote Originally Posted by Dawg61 View Post
Wow why on earth Germany would even attempt to invade that is suicide. The shear size of the country, their huge army and terrible climate should be enough to deter any invader. Did Hitler not have any knowledge of how Russia fights a war on their own land? Hitler just had a death wish for himself and his entire country. He had the war won. Just finish off Britain and it's over. Done. He chose instead to murder 20+ million more people and ensure Germany loses.
Oil and gas to fuel the German war machine. By the end of the war, most of germanys machinery was running on syn gas which is very hard to keep an entire army mobile on.