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Episode 1 begins with a brief examination of the rationale of hatred projected by Hitler onto the Soviet-Slavic-Jewish world. Then it leaps forward, to see Hitler initiate an invasion of the USSR. In June 1941, 3.6 million Axis troops rumbled into the Soviet Union – the largest invasion force in history. They traversed the frontier as if it did not exist. The summer of 1941 resembled an armoured victory parade for Germans; soldiers cruising atop their tanks in shirtsleeves, enjoying the sun and seizing oceans of land as they went. Millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians were captured and deliberately starved, in a calculated programme to free up resources for Aryans. The mood in Berlin was sky-high and it was believed that the war could be completed in a matter of weeks or months. By October, Army Group Centre had reached the outskirts of Moscow. Yet they would tread no further. Because of a number of strategic mistakes made by Hitler himself, the Wehrmacht were left with an understrength force not quite ca
