You are close, but not quite.
Hitler's basic failure was racism. Extreme racism. Sure, we all know that he massacred Jews, gays and many others, but racism ran to the hear of Hitler, and dictated his war plans too.
Hitler didn't attempt to invade Britain because he respected the British race. You know that Hitler though the Jews were bottom of the barrel, but also thought pretty lowly of Russians and French. The British he rated as being only a little below Germans, and so saw them as a genuine threat. He though instead that invading Russia would be an easier option than GB because Russians in Hitler's eyes were a vastly inferior race.
And his motivation for the war at large, not so much greed, but a grass-roots belief (of the sort usually only seen in religious fanatics) that the Aryan race are the true and rightful leaders of the earth.
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You are close, but not quite. Hitler's basic failure was racism. Extreme racism. Sure, we all know that he massacred Jews, gays and many others, but racism ran to the hear of Hitler, and dictated his war plans too. Hitler didn't attempt to invade Britain because he respected the British race. You know that Hitler though the Jews were bottom of the barrel, but also thought pretty lowly of Russians and French. The British he rated as being only a little below Germans, and so saw them as a genuine threat. He though instead that invading Russia would be an easier option than GB because Russians in Hitler's eyes were a vastly inferior race. And his motivation for the war at large, not so much greed, but a grass-roots belief (of the sort usually only seen in religious fanatics) that the Aryan race are the true and rightful leaders of the earth.