ORIGINAL: jk464
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.
yeah, probably not a good idea to try to take on the entire world.
Hitler did NOT want to take"on" the world. he wanted most ofwestern europe, the balkin states, & parts of russia for
"space for the German people". he had ZERO, I repeat, ZERO desire to attack the United States of America.
the U.S. also had ZERO desire to enter into another european war.
All was well & good until the Limeys declared war on Germany, and the japs attacked the U.S. of A.. then be default
Germany declared war on the US.
and to get more into it, the
Treaty of Versailles assured a second world war.