In fact if makes Herr Hitler's African advance far more difficult than it would otherwise have been. All of which-would seem to confirm Hitler's intention to invade Russia and fry his luck where Napoleon failed.
It is the quickest way of getting much-needed oil and grain, but there is also the military factor which is generally overlooked. Underground Teporis from Germany agree that Hitler has come to the conclusion that the only way of winning the war is to crush Britain by invasion. He had the idea, and it has become a nightmare to him, but then so has the spectacle of a long drawn out war between land power and sea Power.
This is where Russia comes into his calculations. He has a lofty contempt for the Russian Army but a certain respect for the Russian Air Force. He realizes that the German Air Force will get a terrible battering from the R.A.F., which is in tertific form and spoiling for a showdown fight... That is the blackest part of Herr Hitler's nightmare—the thought of an untouched Russian Air Force in his rear with the-Luftwaffe engaged in a death struggle with the R.A.F.. He still dreads a war on two fronts—Reuter.
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