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Finished chapter two. Many parallels make themselves present and compel me, mainly the parallels between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union: two industrial super powers with a dominant party structure which was able to subordinate the military and focused on territorial annexation. The space-obsessed Stalin expanded the Soviet frontline, making it more vulnerable, and considered himself the gravedigger for capitalism

Finished the first chapter. Concise and very well-written, explains Hitler’s domination of the army, the German victories in the west, and its eastward ambitions, but also the internal divisions present before the war began, as well as Hitler’s mistakes, which would come back to bite them in the ass later.