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Short answer why they attacked is "oil fields in south USSR" ... the Germans hoped to get there, grab them and then negotiate a truce if they hadn't finished mopping up Britain.
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economic reasons were a part, but not all of it. e.g. three other reasons were:1) the general Nazi Lebensraum ideology had involved expanding the Reich to the Slavic territories for a long time, 2) Bolshevism was seen as the archenemy and 3) the Soviet system was considered very pro-Jewish and thus an enemy to the Nazi dogmas.
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They had an unusually bad winter (mud) - or they quite probably would have succeeded even allowing for the time wasted in the Sealion operation.
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you mean the Eastern front or the planned invasion of the UK?