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I've been watching Man in the High Castle and one of the interesting aspects of the story is the contemplation of the pace of German technological innovation ha
by redwood 8y ago
I've been watching Man in the High Castle and one of the interesting aspects of the story is the contemplation of the pace of German technological innovation had they won the war.
- lenticular 8y agoIt's really highly exaggerated, both in that show and in popular culture. Nazis would not have travelled to Mars by the 1960s, and they wouldn't have supersonic civilian airliners. Nazism crippled German science, math, and technology. If you remember your math courses, many things have German names. You'll notice that's mainly pre-1933 works. The mathematical establishment at Gottingten and elsewhere, which included many Jews and people married to them, was eviscerated. Ditto for physics. The only place they were unambiguously ahead of Allied technology was rocketry. Our bombers were superior, Soviet tanks were superior to what the Germans had, and the fighters were comparable. Even with rocketry, the allies would have caught up even without Operation Paperclip. Nazism really doesn't have any upsides.
- skookumchuck 8y agoJet engines were way ahead of the Allies. Modern jet engines trace back to the German designs.
- redwood 8y agoI don't mean to describe this as an "upside" but one of the key aspects of fascism is the unification of business elites and the government which can lead to very fast industrial advancements at the expense of many other things that are certainly far more important
- deepnotderp 8y agoBut then the Soviets would've been wiped out, and Korolev and co actually beat the former Nazis to orbit and to the moon (lunar rovers), even with less resources and experience.