Chris Madel

We call it military.

Which is why there's such an issue with defeat in 1918.

How can this be possible?

We're supposed to be the top dogs.

And they've never got rid of that thing.

That point.

And part of the Nazis' self-building of German confidence is to go, we were stabbed in the back.

We were betrayed.

We are really good at military.

That is what we do.

And as if to prove it, we've just won in Poland and Scandinavia and in the West.

We've overrun everyone.

So we can do it again.

So there is this, by this stage, there is this hardwired

military superiority kind of thrown into it, which is also mingled with really, really strong racism against these inferior, backward, primitive Slavs who have low toilet facilities.

Yeah, exactly.

But there are some discerning voices and not least General Lieutenant Ernst Kerstring, who is the foremost German military expert on the Soviet Union.

fluent in Russian and been the military attache in Moscow since 1935.

And he strongly believes that there's nothing to be gained from war that couldn't be better served by a political solution.

And on this, he is absolutely on the money.