Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Pashure pokukundwa kwakasimba kweGermany muHondo yeStalingrad pana 2 February 1943, Germany yakamanikidzwa kudzivirira uye yakanga isingachakwanisi kutsvaka kushandiswa kweNew Order muSoviet Union, kunyange zvazvo kuparadza kwevaJudha, Roma, uye mamwe maduku kwakapfuurira. Kutevera kukundikana kwakatevera kwe
Muna 1943 apo Wehrmacht yakatanga kurwisa muzhizha kuti itorezve nzvimbo dzakaraswa nemaSoviet pakutanga kwegore iroro, yakanga isingachakwanisi kurwisa zvine simba pamwero mukuru kuEastern Front. Mukukurukurirana naJoseph Goebbels musi wa26 Gumiguru 1943 Hitler akataura kuti Germany inofanira kupedzisa hondo yenguva pfupi neSoviet Union ndokudzokera kumuganhu wayo wa1941 kumabvazuva. Izvi zvaizopa Germany mukana wokutanga kukunda mauto eBritain kumadokero (hapana kutaurwa nezvekuti United States yaive mubatanidzwa weAllied) isati yatangazve hondo itsva ye "Lebensraum" kurwisa Soviet Union pane imwe nguva gare gare. Hitler akafunga kuti mutsivi wake womunguva yemberi angadai aifanira kuita hondo iyi yapashure, sezvo aifunga kuti akanga akwegura zvikuru panguva iyoyo.