Hitler's Mistakes

“While the German army had success the first day, it was Hitler’s desire to occupy the entire city that cost him the battle” (Background). Despite being in a favorable position early on, Hitler decide to continue to push on and quickly take over the city of Stalingrad. Logically, Hitler would have been content with the position he had, and held it for some time. Despite throwing large amounts of men into the fighting the Germans only made small amounts of progress, losing absurd amounts of men and supplies to take over a single building. Once Hitler had started this push, however, he could not pull out of it. It would be a defeat in his eyes, and avoiding defeat was more important to him than the lives of his men. “Fresh divisions were thrown in and were soon ground to pieces in the inferno (a fiery hell). To Hitler [Stalingrad’s] capture was now a question of personal prestige” (Document 1). After a certain point, a victory under his name became won important to Hitler than the territory won in the battle. Especially due to the city's importance to Stalin himself, it was more of a personal battle for Hitler than a battle between nations. The Battle of Stalingrad became a test of Hitler’s prestige and what he was willing to do to protect it. The answer to that question would turn out to be too much, as the Soviets would be on the front foot for the

It was called Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and they where attacked on December 7, 1941. The Attack severely damaged the United States Navy fleet, but not for long. After the attack the United States declared war on Japan, so Germany declared war on the United States in return. (Pearl)

During WWII, with his nonaggression pact with Stalin, Hitler annexed Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and the USSR and attacked eastern Poland. Although Hitler honored the pact, he only did so until he found it convenient to attack the USSR in June 1941. In December 1941, he assumed personal command of war strategy. (Warlimont, 1964). It only led to disaster. In early 1943, he refused to admit defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad. He brought death to lots of German troops. As the war turned against Hitler, his horrible extermination of the

As the peace with France was being the finalized the rest of Hitler’s military was doing as they were ordered to do. The Luftwaffe gave the germans complete and utter power over Europe’s skies. With the land and air conquered the German u boat sunk convoy ship after convoy ship cutting Great Britain off with it's imperial colonies. The unbreakable will of the German people shook fear in the allied powers as they had already lost France to the Nazis.

Throughout Hitler’s reign over Germany, he made several major mistakes. His first major mistake was his inability to quickly annihilate Britain in the battle of Dunkirk, whom ultimately contributed to the German defeat. The battle of Dunkirk took place during the summer of 1940, beginning May 26th to June 4th. At this point, Germany had Britain, France, and Poland surrounded, but Hitler did not order his troops to engage because he wanted to please a potential ally, the Russians. Stalin (Russian leader) did not trust Hitler and was prepared in advance for war with Germany. Hitler always kept in mind that he would eventually attack Russia, which he did later on in the war. So, by having Russia on his side, he would not only have the biggest country in the world at his fingertips but it would be easier to eventually take it over. In order to

Hitler did not wish for a lengthy war and wanted a strategy that would triumph over other methods. Blitzkrieg supposedly was able to accomplish his ideals. It used all armaments at once in a surprise attack. This would penetrate enemy defences allowing Panzers to roam openly behind enemy resistance, causing shock, confusion and disorganization among enemy divisions. Luftwaffe prevented its foe from gaining superiority in the air by prohibiting them from resupplying or redeploying forces, therefore blocking them from sending reinforcements. German military could then surround the enemies and force them into surrendering. The Germans were able to prove this worked on many accounts.

The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 shocked the world, but no one knew what Hitler really desired from the Soviets until he commenced Operation Barbarossa in June, 1941. The War in the East began with much confusion on the Soviet side, but in the end, they prevailed and the Germans were unable to achieve Lebensraum. Upon examination, the different levels of planning and strategies employed by both leaders guaranteed a Soviet victory, as Hitler overestimated his own forces, while Stalin focused on effective methods.

Thus, Hitler lost the war because of his overconfidence at the Battle of Dunkirk. Furthermore, Hitler lost World War II because his overconfidence on the German army made him declare war against the United States. Furthermore, “throughout the war Hitler’s mistakes were legion, though he had plenty of help. His biggest tactical blunder, without a doubt, was engaging the one enemy he had been determined not to arouse: the United States.” . “Hitler was overconfident that his military could beat the US military.” .

Germany did not have a numerically superior force on the western front, but bold strategy, careful planning and blitzkrieg tactics set the foundation for the French defeat. In June 1940 Hitler invaded Paris, eight days later the French surrendered. After the French surrender, Hitler attempted to end the war with Britain. Speaking to the Reichstag in June, he said, “I can see no reason why the war need go on.” But Hitler was already had his sights set on invading Russia. He now aimed to end the war in the west so he could concentrate on attacking communist Russia in the east. Hitler knew that invading Britain would be difficult, but still he informed his military to leaders to prepare for the operation, Operation Sea Lion, and proceeded in planning a landing operation against Britain.

Leading up to the invasion, Stalin received several intelligence reports indicating Hitler’s intention to invade. Over 3 Million Wehrmacht soldiers had massed along 1,800 miles of the Soviet border, yet Stalin forbid his soldiers from preparing for a preemptive strike against the German forces because he did not wish to provoke Hitler. Stalin made a critical mistake by ignoring his commanders in the field and ignoring intelligence reports on the situation. Stalin refused to believe

The Nazi’s began by invading Austria and then he planned to Czechoslovakia and Poland (Dawidowicz 1981:12). Prior to the policy of appeasement, Britain and France did not want war. So they decided to buy Hitler by selling Czech independence. Hitler was not bought off by the appeasement and wanted Poland in anyway. Seeing this Hitler’s actions, Britain and France were threatened and then declared war on Germany.

Adolf Hitler was one of the 20th century's most powerful dictators. He was responsible for World War II and the death of millions. Hitler saw a nation in despair and used this as an opportunity to gain political power. He saw a nation of unemployed and hungry citizens and promised them economic prosperity in return for absolute power. Someone once said "The Nazis rose to power on the empty stomachs of the German people".

The major flaw of the plan was that Hitler, despite his beliefs, did not have enough power or support to succeed in taking over the German government. One consequential error made was that Ludendorff was very late; showing up hours after Hitler had stormed the Beer Hall, this wasted several hours and consequently pushed the putsch back further into the night. Once the Beer Hall meeting started to break up, Hitler left Ludendorff in charge, which turned to become a huge error in their plan. This action allowed all three Bavarian ministers to slip away from the Hall and contact police and the German Government. Ludendorff then proposed the rash idea of marching on Munich with Hitler and Nazi followers under the presumption that the armed forces would not dare oppose them and join the Nazis. Ludendorff and Hitler did not account for the possibility that the police would shoot at them; this consequently lead to a number of fatalities and

The Unfortunate Impressiveness of Adolf Hitler The world knows Adolf Hitler as one of the most evil, twisted, and dangerous men to ever walk the face of the earth. However it wasn't always this way, the man who slaughtered millions of people once held favorability among many. His rise to power was a crafty and well thought out, one of the best political campaigns ever. Hitler's success can be drawn from the difficulties Germany had faced, his ability to manipulate the public, and his own commitment and personal traits.

<br>As the war progressed, Hitler became more risky in his decision making, and made the crucial error of invading Russia in June 1941. This opened Germany up to communist attack by breaking the Soviet-German non-agression pact of August 1939, and also a two front war, and Hitler was forced to divert forces to Russia, which could have been spent on defeating Britain. Hitler's aim of invading Russia had been postponed due to the distractions in both North Africa, and also south eastern Europe. Hitler felt an urgency to begin the move to the east, even though the British remained undefeated in the west. The invasion of Russia was the largest military campaign of the war.