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Dodgy

Germany and WWII. So many opinions. For mine I think it comes down to superior equipment and tactics in some areas, poor strategic decisions, an apparent inability to mass produce, political interferance, hate based policies and severely flawed use of their tactical forces. I also agree with Bish. The war with Britain was a sideshow that Hitler  did not want. For those who are interested I can thoroughly reccomend 'Hitler's War Directives'. A bit dry but hugely informative. Straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

 

I don't think the Germans had an inability to mass produce, they just didn't think it nessacery. In 1940, 41 Germany was still produceing household good such as pots and pans when the UK had moved to a complete war footing. Germany also didn't get woman in the factories as other did. Germany was able to mass produce later in the war, albeit with the help of slave labour, but by then they didn't have the fuel to power the machines or the experiance men to crew them. Germany was never going to out produce the combined might of the British Empire let alone the USSR and USA.

IMHO, Germany's biggest weakness was arrogance, especially at the top of the party. They simply believed that Britain would sit back and let them dominate eastern Europe, but for the best part of 400 years we had been fighting war in Europe to provent one power being dominant and so a threat to the Empire. And the beliefe that the USSR would simply collapse. Combine that with bad allies that you have to bail out of the mess of their own making, and your on to a hideing rfrom the start.

Bish

 

 

 

 

I don't think the Germans had an inability to mass produce, they just didn't think it nessacery. In 1940, 41 Germany was still produceing household good such as pots and pans when the UK had moved to a complete war footing. Germany also didn't get woman in the factories as other did. Germany was able to mass produce later in the war, albeit with the help of slave labour, but by then they didn't have the fuel to power the machines or the experiance men to crew them. Germany was never going to out produce the combined might of the British Empire let alone the USSR and USA.