Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. War planning

In the book with the involvement of a number of previously unknown documents from domestic and German archives, the features of political and strategic planning of the Nazi Germany of the war against the USSR are considered. Convincing evidence of the fact that, contrary to the consequences of the consequence in Western historiography, plans for the attack on the Soviet Union were developed in advance, in a number of aspects, while maintaining continuity with the plans of German imperialism, and did not doubt. It is shown that the policy of Nazi Germany was directed not only to dominance on the European continent, but also on the creation of the most favorable conditions for the invasion of the USSR. Special attention in the book is given to demonstrations that the war in the East, unlike other military campaigns of the Third Reich, initially carried an uncompromising racial ideological character, and the Germanization and colonization of a significant part of the Soviet Union, the destruction of the centuries-old Russian statehood mentioned by its final goals. . However, Blitzkrieg"s plans were built by the leadership of Germany in a deep lack of understanding of the economic, organizational and political and military-strategic capabilities of the USSR, as well as the underestimation of the heroism of the Soviet people who made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism.
The publication is intended for specialists in military history, students and teachers of civil and military universities, as well as a wider audience of readers interested in the problems of international relations of the 20th century