World War II

Compared with other battlefields in World War II, Eastern Front, a much larger and bloody and resulted in 25 million-30 million people died. On the Eastern Front, there are more than all the land battle fronts in World War II. Because the ideological premise of the war, fighting on the Eastern Front resulted in great destruction. For members of hard-line Nazis in Berlin, the war against the Soviet Union is the struggle against communism and the Aryan race against race Slavic lower. From the beginning of the conflict, Hitler was considered as a "war of annihilation". In addition to ideological conflict, the mindset of Hitler and Stalin resulted in an increase of terror and murder. Hitler intended to enslave the Slavic race and destroy the Jewish population in Eastern Europe. Stalin was just the same money to Hitler in terms of contempt of human lives to achieve victory. This includes terrorizing their own people and also the mass deportation of the entire population. These factors lead to the brutality of the soldiers and civilians, which can not be equated with the Western Front.

This war resulted in great loss and suffering among civilians of the countries involved. Behind the front lines, atrocities against civilians in the occupied territories of Germany is very common, including the Holocaust of the Jews. Twenty million civilians have been killed or died from disease, starvation and torture. After the war, the German population in East Prussia and Silesia transferred to the west of the Oder-Neisse Line.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939 to form a non-aggression treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and a secret protocol described how Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania would be divided between them. In the September War in Poland in 1939 both countries were invaded and divided Poland, and in June 1940 the Soviet Union, which threatened to use violence if demands are not met, won the diplomatic war against Romania and the three Baltic states which de jure allow it to be peaceful occupy Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania de facto, and return the territories of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldovia in North and Northeast regions of Romania (North Bucovina and Basarabia).
The division of Poland for the first time gave Germany and the Soviet Union a common border. For nearly two years while the German border was calm conquer Danish, Norwegian, French, and Balkan regions.
Adolf Hitler had long wanted to violate the pact with the Soviet Union and the invasion. In Mein Kampf he filed his argument about the need to obtain new territory for German settlement in Eastern Europe. He imagined placing the German people as a superior race in western Russia, while most people drive out the Russians to Siberia and use the rest as slave labor. After cleansing in the 1930s he saw the Soviet Union was militarily weak and ripe for attack: "We just need to kick the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse."
Joseph Stalin was worried about the war with Germany, and therefore reluctant to do anything that could provoke Hitler. Although Germany has mobilized a large number of Polish troops in the east and make a dark reconnaissance flights along the border, Stalin ignored the warnings from the intelligence itself or from a foreign party. In addition, on the night of the raid itself, the Soviet troops get direction that was signed by Marshal Semyon Timoshenko and General Georgy Zhukov who ordered (in line with Stalin's orders): "do not reply to any provocations" and "do not take any actions without specific orders ". Therefore, the invasion of Germany in general and leadership Soviet military surprise.


Ideology

Hitler in his book, "Mein Kampf" (Struggle), stressing the importance of lebensraum, ie get a new territory for the German people in Eastern Europe. He imagined placing the German people as the main race in western Russia. In contrast, most Russian people moved into Siberia and the rest into slavery. After cleaning (purge?) Large-scale in the 1930s, Hitler considered the Soviet military occupied weak and easily. He states, "We just have to kick the door and the whole fragile structure would collapse." As a result of the Battle of Kursk and the weakened condition of the German military, Hitler and the Nazis declared war propaganda as a defense of civilization by Germany from destruction by the "Bolshevik hordes" which spread to Europe.
The policies and attitudes of Stalin's ideology was equally aggressive. As the world's attention is diverted to the Western Front, he occupied the Baltic three states in 1940. Stalin's active participation in the division of Poland in 1939 can not be underestimated.
World War II, officially began racing on September 1, 1939 until the date of August 14, 1945. Nevertheless there is an opinion that the war actually started much earlier, on March 1, 1937 when Japan occupied Manchuria. Until now, this war is the most devastating war ever happened on earth. Approximately 50 million (fifty million) people died in this conflict.
Typically it can be said that the fight started when the German occupation of Poland on September 1, 1939, and expire on 14 or August 15, 1945 when Japan surrendered to U.S. forces.
World War II raging in an old three continents, in, African, Asian and European.