Did the fall of France came too easy for Hitler that he launch Operation Barbarossa a year later against USSR?

Answer 1

As the person stated above, the Russian offensive was set out in his book Mein Kemfph (sp) back in the 20's. The timing of Operation Barbarrossa did coincide with his belief that the next war should not be fought on two fronts. With the defeat of France, a second front was eliminated..at least for the time being.

Altho Britain was still technically at war in 1941, he argued, with some justification, that they did not pose a dangerous second front in the spring of 1941. He was drawn eastward, the same as Napoleon when he too was left chomping on the bit at the coast....

Answer 2

Both the above answers are correct. He'd planned to get revenge on France for the result in WWI, then turn and remove the Bolvsheviks from Russia. His big mistakes were to try to conquer the USSR before knocking Great Britain out of the War, and to wait too long to invade the USSR, where he was defeated by "General Winter" as well as Marshal G. Zhukov, one of the heroes of WWII. Actually, trying to invade the USSR was a big mistake, but that was one of his great aims in the war, so he had to do it.

Answer 3

The fall of France was far too easy and fast, but probably the invasion of Russia was in his mind before the beginning of the war

Answer 4

He could not hold power over Europe without oil supplies. Rumania had some, but not enough. He had to conquer and hold either North Africa + Egypt + Saudi Arabia, or Russia and the area around the Caspian Sea, to get oil supplies. Montgomery stopped him in Egypt, and Zhukov stopped him at the Urals or before them.