World History Analysis and Views

 World war WWII was very much flawed by Germany over confidence of itself and belittling the enemy capability and resolve. Poor war plans and amateurish behavior and lack of precautions. Operation Barbarossa was very grandeur and very ambitious bt attacking the Soviet Union in three fronts and diluting the punching power. It was sufficient to attack only in one front rather than three such attacking the Capital city of Moscow only. After the Barbarossa started  Hermann Goring lied and made rosy and false promises that the Sixth army fighting at Stalingrad could be supplied by air. This was crazy assumption and beyond the capability of the Wulfvaffe and adding to that many German planes were shot down during the supply operation. The final outcome instead of a decision to retreat the sixth army was encircled and defeated.

.. Vegetarian Hitler and the German Generals at Breakfast .. Towards the end of his life  Adolf Hitler  followed a  vegetarian  diet. It is not clear when he adopted it, since some accounts of his dietary habits prior to the  Second World War  indicate that he consumed meat as late as 1937. By 1938, Hitler's public image as a vegetarian was already being fostered and from 1942 he self-identified as a vegetarian. .. Adolf Hitler's Vegetarianism: Last Surviving Food Tester, Margot Woelk, Confirms Meat-Free Lifestyle After decades of silence, 95-year-old Margot Woelk, thought to be the  last surviving member of the team tasked with testing Adolf Hitler's food for poisons , has come forward with new details about the infamous figure. In an interview with the U.K. publication The Times, Woelk described  tasting the Fuhrer's meals  between 11 a.m. and noon before the dishes were driven to Nazi headquarters, known as the Wolf's Lair...

Operation Barbarossa was the name given to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia on June 22nd 1941. Barbarossa the largest military attack of World War Two and was to have appalling consequences for the Russian people. Three army groups attacked Russia on June 22nd 1941. Army Group North, led by von Leeb, Army Group Centre, commanded by von Bock and Army Group South commanded by von Rundstedt. Army Group Consisted of? Army Group North XVIII Army led by von Küchler IV Panzergruppe led by Hoepner XVI Army led by Busch Totalled 20 divisions and Luftflotte I Army Group Centre III Panzergruppe led by Hoth IX Army led by Strauss IV Army led by von Kluge II Panzergruppe led by Guderian Totalled 51 divisions and Luftflotte II Army Group South VI Army led by von Reichenau I Panzergruppe led by von Kleist XVII Army led by von Stülpnagel Hungarian Army Corps ...

Unpublished: LIFE correspondent Percy Knauth (left) sifts through debris in the shallow trench in the garden of the Reich Chancellery where, Knauth was told, the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were burned after their suicides. (William Vandivert—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)