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Originally Posted by LeEnfield Better soldiers.....Well to start with as they had quite of bit of experience from the civil war in Spain. War is the greatest teacher of all, you should always be learning new tactics and bringing on new weapons, your troops become battle harden which give them the edge over green troops. When WW2 started the Germans had more men under arms and better equipped do to their guns before butter policy, and there factories geared up to a higher level for producing military gear, so they started with a bigger advantage. It took the Allies a while to get into gear and start out producing the Axis and getting enough well trained men into the field. When you start at a low level you fighting hard just to keep up with your losses before you can start to out build your enemy |
The Germans had more experience but they neither had more men under arms nor where their factories geared up to a higher level. The Germans did not move to a war footing until fully 3 years of war had passed.
The reason why the Germans were so successful initially?
Training, tactics, personal initiative at every level of the German Army and the element of surprise.
It took until the 1980s before the US Army, for example, actually began to catch up with the doctrine of the Germany Army of 1939.