June 22, 1941, Germany deployed 5.5 million troops, 3,700 tanks, 4,900 aircraft, 47,000 various types of artillery, 190 warships and 600,000 transports to raid the Soviet Union, the Soviet-German war thus broke out. Such a huge military force made the whole world tremble, and it can be said that this was the most powerful military force in the world at that time.
So why could Germany, with an area of just over 300,000 square kilometers (not as big as Yunnan) and a population of just over 66 million, easily deploy such a huge mobile expeditionary force? The main reason is that many of the German invasion troops were not Germans, but came from other European countries. Foreign volunteers made up a very large percentage of the German army, especially the most capable German SS, most of whom were volunteers from other European countries. In addition, there were as many as 900,000 servant armies that willingly followed Germany.
So why did so many foreign volunteers and servant nations die to join or follow the German army? The main reason: to fight the Soviet Union. A lot of Europeans heard of the fight against the Soviet Union and played like chicken blood, Italy, Hungary, Romania and other countries heard of the fight against the Soviet Union immediately prepared their own dry food flocked to the country. The French in the face of the German invasion and chickens like goat, did not fight a few times on the surrender, but the Soviet Union and Germany immediately rose to the battlefield, the fighting force is not worse than the German army. In Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia and other Soviet Union under the rule of the franchise **** and countries, the people greeted, and even many people joined the German army to fight. It can be said that except for Britain, almost all European countries ran to fuck the Soviet Union. So just how big of a grudge did the Soviet Union have against other European countries, causing other European countries to come and swarm the Soviet Union?
First, ethnically, most of the European countries disliked the Soviet (Russian) people. Western, Northern and Central Europe were mostly Germanic, and had a deeper grudge against the Russians, who not only discriminated against but were also hostile to the Slavs, Hitler considered the Slavs to be an inferior race like the Jews, and even the British, who cooperated with the Soviets, didn't like the Russians; and the Romans in Southern Europe regarded the Slavs as barbarians,? Slavs? The term Slav was invented by the Romans, and the Latin word for Slav is ? Slave? The meaning of the Slavs in Latin is "slaves"; even the Slavs in Central and Southeastern Europe are y separated from Russia, and the Slavic countries of Poland and Yugoslavia are enemies of the Russians, who are very poorly liked in Europe.
Secondly, from the religious point of view, the other European countries are mostly Christian and Catholic, these countries fight their own are generally to the point, many countries even if they are occupied can be highly autonomous, but once and Russia as the leader of the Orthodox Christian countries fight the war will be fighting to the death of blood into the river. More seriously, the Russians are not only Orthodox Christian countries, but also and the West ideological differences are very great, by the other European countries as a beast of water, the two sides can not fight naturally will not be merciful.