Did the Russians and the Germans fight together in World War 2?

Answer 1

Germany was attempting to destroy Russia in it's attempt to take over Europe. Even today, Germans and Russians have conflict. Following WW2, Russia kept a part of Germany in an attempt to make certain that Germany would be unable to start yet ANOTHER world war. The world should have learned from WW1, but we didn't.

Unfortunately, political leaders don't seem to be the brightest people around, just the most charismatic. (Above answers addresses the period AFTER WW2) Germany and Russia signed a non-agression pact to agree not to attack each other. Germany wanted this so that they could carry out there plan to take over parts of France, Chezoslovakia and other countries without worrying about Russia. Russia wanted to keep peace as long as they could. Germany began WW2 on 1 Sept 1939 by attacking Poland from the West. A few weeks later, Russia attacked Poland from the East. Both countries took over Poland and divided it in half. However the Russians and Germans soldiers did not fight together nor share any military intelligence. They did not trust each other even though they had signed an alliance. A few months later, Hilter ordered the invasion of Russian and his troops advanced almost to the outskirts of Moscow and to the oil fields. The German invasion resulted in deaths of many Russian soldiers and destruction of civilian property. It took a few years for the Russia to re-build its military forces and they fought to destroy the German army and their country.

Answer 2

Russia was allied with Germany for two years, from 1939-41, but not with Japan. Germany and Italy did not enter into the alliance with Japan until 1940. Russia and Japan were bitter rivals and had fought a war in 1905, which the Japanese won.

In August 1939 Hitler and Stalin negotiated a "non-aggression pact" promising not to attack each other. This was the public portion of the agreement which gave Hitler the green light to invade Poland nine days later, on September 1, 1939. Two weeks later Russian troops also invaded Poland from the other side, the east. German and Russian troops met in the middle of Poland and they divided Poland between them. No one declared war on Russia for this because they already had their hands full, having declared war on Germany for the initial invasion of Poland, and because France and Britain would first have to defeat Germany to get at the Russians, anyway.

In the next two years Hitler and Stalin were partners. (With Mussolini and perhaps Franco in Spain, they had a sort of "little dictators club"). Between 1939 and 1941 Hitler invaded eight countries and Stalin invaded five. Hitler was much more successful though. Stalin had killed most of his high-ranking army officers in 1937, in one of his periodic purges fueled by his paranoia. This might have made Stalin feel more secure but was certainly no help to the Soviet Army.

The only person on the planet Stalin trusted was Adolph Hitler.

Stalin refused to believe it when his army began reporting the German build-up on the Soviet border, preparatory to the invasion in June 1941. When the Germans did invade, Stalin was so devastated by this betrayal by his buddy that he took to his dacha for weeks and would not come out, nor could anybody get any orders or directions from him on what to do about the rapidly onrushing Germans. The Germans killed or captured between two and three million Russian troops before Stalin could snap out of it, avoiding complete defeat by the narrowest of margins.

Answer 3

The Soviet Union cooperated with Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1940, and divided the nation of Poland between them. But in May, 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and from then until the end of the war in 1945 the Soviets fought the Germans fiercely.

I don't think that the Soviets actually "supported" Germany in the Holocaust, although they did nothing to prevent it. Stalin arguably murdered more Jews than Hitler did, although Stalin's purges and murders were less focused on the Jews and were more widely aimed.

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How about a spot of common sense and general knowledge? "Stalin arguably murdered more Jews than Hitler did" says the above. More than six million? Please ...! "I don't think that the Soviets actually "supported" Germany in the Holocaust, although they did nothing to prevent it". Did any country do anything to prevent the Holocaust? Incidentally, correct dates would be useful, too.