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Topic: Re: Turning point of WW2Quote:
Whereas both Germany and Japan were such extreme racist, I don't see them being happy with the two of them ruling the world, not for long. One of the two would have gotten greedy and sought to control/rule the world all by one country's efforts. Doesn't it sound ridiculous, two countries with about eighty million people each wanting to conquer the world, against countries with hundreds of million people each? It does to me. Quote:
America defeated Japan with only twenty percent of its military material production!! Remember by early 1944, the US shipyards had replaced all of the cargo ships and oilers sunk by German forces! |
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In the first years of the war the German Blitzkrieg tactic worked well, and there was no desire to spend any money on jet-powered toys as the Germans were pretty confident that they would have won the war before the jetplanes became operational. That stance hampered the project that turned out the ME-262 even after the plane flew under jet power for the first time, and proved sucsessfull. And when the Germans realized how the war turned on them, they became desperate and pushed the plane into service, but still with lacking funds for developement, and with technique suffering from the general lack of resources that became a trademark for late-war Germany. Thanks to Hitler's incompetence I'm able to type this in English. ![]() |
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a)that without Hitler,Germany would win the war b)that Hitler was the cause of Germany's defeat and,sorry,but these 2 assumptions are totally wrong . |
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I must aggree on point a) Without Hitler, Germany wouldn't have started a war. But Hitler did interfere with too many things that was vital to the German war effort, or he made the influence on others to make decissions that hampered the war effort. They were confident that they would win in the old-fashioned way, and thus there was no need to spend much resources on new technology. There was a whole lot of projects nearly full developed that could have given Nazi-Germany an upper hand in many ways. But as he (Hitler again) decided to declare war on the USA those new developments was to no use. They tried to fight the US industry once before, and didn't learn then. |
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His fixation on the destruction of the USSR made him reckless. He was a totally irrational man who was incapable of pursuing any alternative ways or means of achieving his goals. The USSR had no desire to butt heads with Germany in 1941 or 1942 or 43 for that matter. Stalin didn't trust Hitler but he needed time to develope an officer corps and to build a better air-force. At the time the Russians had the best tank in the world in the T34. The problem was they did not have very many of them. Hitler as Rommel said lived in a cloud-coo-coo land. His declaration of war against the USA after pearl harbour may very well have been his defining moment as a reckless, interferring twit. I believe the 1st turning point was his decision the save the British army at Dunkirk. His second was attacking the USSR when he did. His third was declaring war on the USA. |
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The major reason Hitler was never close to making your grandparents goose step through Time Square: The Soviet Union.
Yes, Hitler plowed through Europe and had the UK on the ropes, and could have done more. It didn't matter. Stalin was waiting on the other side, and Hitler was never going to win that war. It was just a matter of how much of Europe he would control at the moment Stalin eventually crushed him. |
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Btw:there were no turning points in WWII . |
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Anyone in his right mind must have realized the BEF could not be destroyed by the luftwaffe alone. Except Goering that is. |
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