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The 'lack of brains' argument holds if you're looking at the Third Reich leadership rather than Germany as a nation. Aside from the poor choice of trying to tak
by sithadmin 10y ago
The 'lack of brains' argument holds if you're looking at the Third Reich leadership rather than Germany as a nation. Aside from the poor choice of trying to take on both the USSR and the USA, near the end of the war, the Third Reich made a number of awful military tactics and logistics decisions that accelerated their loss.
- frozenport 10y agoWhat? Albert Speer pulled off a "armaments miracle" where production increased despite allied bombings. [1] Hitler got extremely far in the war against the USSR, and probably lost (in his words [2]) because the USSR rapidly moved production beyond Nazi reach. Also the USSR had a resolve to send millions of people in near suicide waves, something the French refused. Also the unwillingness of the Japanese to attack the USSR [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClR9tcpKZec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClR9tcpKZec [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sorge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sorge