ORIGINAL: rcguy59

Some of those German engineers were pretty damned sharp, there's no doubt about it. Yet in spite of fielding some of the most impressive technology seen during the war, they were led by a full-blown nutjob and his idiot cronies. Oh, and did I mention that this lunatic leader was ELECTED by the German people?

When your fuel is being destroyed as fast as your enemy can find it and when your pilots are being killed faster than you can replace them and all the while your cities are being leveled and you can't stop any of this, how much good did your wonderful technology really do you? A country can have the best technology the world has ever seen, but if they start a war with inadequate resources and the inability to defend what they do have, they are doomed to failure. The Germans learned this lesson by the most brutal means I can imagine. Let's hope that the example set by the Germans and Japanese continues to be remembered.