The Second World War had already been raging for two years when there were signs that Japan, Hitler and Mussolini's Axis partner, was preparing for a large-scale offensive in Southeast Asia. In Europe, Hitler was approaching his goal of establishing a “new order” on the continent. After the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, German troops occupied Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of the territory of France, Yugoslavia and Greece. The power of the fascist “axis” extended from the North Cape to the borders of the Sahara. And since the summer of 1941, fascist troops devastated the western territories of the Soviet Union. It seemed that a lucky star was shining on Hitler’s adventurous plan to break the country of socialism.