What if Hitler never invaded the Soviet Union

We would have had to nuke Berlin, Munich, etc

Hitler had to invade the Soviet Union. It was his core principle. His entire political philosophy was built around it.

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Hitler had to invade the Soviet Union. It was his core principle. His entire political philosophy was built around it.

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Why's that?

Then the transgenders wouldn't have the opportunity to take dumps in women's bathrooms. Crisis averted.

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Hitler hated communists

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Hitler had to invade the Soviet Union

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The royal family would be living in Canada right now.

I watched a show about the rise of Hitler and found myself wondering the same thing. They signed an agreement in 1939 but when the Soviets attacked Finland and couldn't defeat them, Hitler thought he could easily defeat the Soviets. Makes me wonder how different history would have been had he not tried to take on the Soviets and they had kept their agreement in tact.

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Why's that?

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Hitler's view of history was of a fight to the death between races. The Germanic race needed land in the east, both for food, and to engage in struggle to keep itself vigorous. He wrote about this from the very earliest, and he wasn't the first one-a number of German ideologues had been writing about it since the mid 19th century. Eastward expansion was Nazism. Without it, it would have been a different ideology altogether.

Keep in mind that this was before the agricultural revolution of the fifties and sixties. The amount of acreage needed to grow food for a given population was seen as more or less a fixed number, and Germany didn't have enough land to be self sufficient. Germany had nearly starved during WWI when the British blockade cut off food imports. Hitler was determined not to let it happen again. He saw the vast agricultural lands in the East as a strategic asset, much like leaders in a later era saw the middle eastern oilfields.

I think this is also one of the motives driving China's current aggressiveness. They think climate change will make feeding themselves difficult, and they need more territory. It doesn't matter whether you believe in climate change, or if climate change is in fact true. They believe it, and that is sufficient to drive their foreign policy.

Wasn't there an issue of oil fields in Russia that Germany needed to supply their war?

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Hard to see the agreement staying intact for any period of time though.

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Yeah it was inevitable that the two countries fight each other but had Germany defeated the Brits and had only one front to fight I believe things would've turned out much different.