re: What fascinates you concerning WW2?

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Well you are the guru, so I concede.

I recall some source, maybe the communist-nazi ramblings by Hitler that gave my conclusion.

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No need to concede, it's a legitimate question and one that is still debated today by the professional historians. One thing that is important to note is that apparently Hitler and many in the German leadership legitimately feared a Soviet invasion, thus it affected their decision making.

There's a Russian author who has written a few books and lectured on the thesis that Stalin absolutely was preparing to launch an offensive and the German concerns were correct. I haven't read them, only reviews awhile back, but I believe they were met with a great deal of disagreement from most historians.

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sharing a border as they did following the partition of Poland was absolutely going to result in war at some point or another though. The real question is whether the threat from the Soviet Union truly necessitated the German strike. The Germans were not living up to their end of the bargain in the exchange of goods as dictated by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Soviets were. This itself may have lead to problems in the future. But if the Soviets really weren't on the cusp of attacking, then obviously the invasion was a horrific blunder. One can imagine a German commitment of full military resources to the campaign in Africa and seizing Gibraltar. Had Hitler even postponed attacking the USSR until after a hypothetical victory in the Mediterranean, even with the British continuing to holdout on the Isles, the Germans could have invaded the USSR with much less risk because the Western theater would have been so secure by that point.