How is the holocaust related to the war on the eastern front?

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How is the holocaust related to the war on the eastern front?

I am studying WWII on the eastern front...

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ~Given that most European Jews in the '30s and '40s lived in Poland, Russia and the Ukraine, much more fodder for the showers and ovens was gleaned from the Eastern front. Given that forgotten non-Jewish victims of the holocaust: the Poles, the Serbs, the Slavs, the Roma, the Ukraines and the Russians all lived east of the Oder, opening the Eastern front (beyond Poland) so overtaxed the German transportation system, depleted troop reserves and so wasted the labor force and fuel reserves that any glimmer of hope that the Nazis may have had of defeating Stalin and the Soviets was extinguished. The Germans were so out-manned and out-gunned by the superior troops, tactics and weapons of the Soviets (not to mention the difficulty in maintaining untenable supply lines) that continuing the Final Solution and the other genocide campaigns did not alter the outcome of the war.

The "racial purification" programs of the Nazis had nothing to do with the launching of Operation Barbarossa. Hitler knew he would have to do battle with Stalin someday. He attacked when he and his general staff believed the time was right. His generals gave him some bad advice as to the Soviet will and ability to fight, but the invasion of the Soviet Union was a logical and, from a military standpoint, correct move. The attack should have come after Great Britain was defeated, but, by delaying, the Germans would have faced an even more formidable foe than they did. (There is no "correct" time to attack Russia given the logistics involved.) Since Hitler knew he would have to fight a war with Stalin eventually, 1941 was the optimum time to do it. It was purely a military decision. Holocaust issues - Jewish and non-Jewish alike - arose only after areas were conquered.

Surely you jest when you say you are "studying" WWII and you come to this site for information. Have you heard of research? Or do you simply mean you have been placed in the position of having to regurgitate someone else's information on the topic? That, my friend, is hardly "studying" or "learning".