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Hitler: Attack on Russia, War with America… (Part 20)

Real Dictators

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Rudolf Hess and the Wehrmacht

Rudolf Hess set up his mission quite cleverly, making the whole mission deniable if it failed. The day after the Hess fiasco, Hitler accelerates his plans with Barbarossa. To Hitler there is no economic benefit in sustaining the civilian population in places like Leningrad. As he's instructed, matter of factly, many millions of persons will be starved to death. He's warned his generals too that they will not be waging war in a gentlemanly or nightly fashion.

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