I was thinking the other day, would Germany have won WW2,if it wasn't for their racial ideology?. Due to this, germany was not only having to face enemy from the east and west, but also must have expended a huge amount of men,material and natural resources to run their network of concentration and extermination camps. But it was more than that it even interferred in my view directly with them defeating Stalin.
Early on in operation barbarossa, when the forward units of the wermacht and Waffen SS, rolled into Russia, the russians by and large greeted the german troops as their liberators. I mean Stalin was on par With Hitler with being a brutal murdering psychopath,he was probably even worse to be honest.You can find pictures of russian girls hugging waffen SS troops and giving them flowers. It was when the rear units arrived, the police SS units, to offically deal with partisans, but unoffically they were there, to kill, and enslave the russians, as Hitler saw slavic people, as little better than jews,that relations soured.
Can you imagine if, the Germans had instead, treated the russians they encountered well? They would have had less trouble in their rear areas, and would have had huge numbers of Russian men wanting to join them in defeating Stalin.
When you think about Iam surprised Nazi Germany lasted as long as it did. I mean if Hitler himself had just corrected the injustices of the treaty of versaille, there wouldn't have been a WW2, But he underestimated the British and French's, pacisfism, after the meatgrinder that wasWW1. and got greedy. Then after the war started, he never should have taken on the Soviet Union until he had either been able to military occupy the UK (which was almost impossible due to the english channel as germany didn't have hardly any amphibious capbility, and relied on flimsy barges, many of which would haev sunk without even the help of the Royal Navy) or had forced the Uk to sue for peace,by starving them out using uboats ,.Because once Churchill persuaded the US to join the war, the UK became a giant unsinkable aircraft carrier for huge heavy bomber fleets.
Hitler also took the bait when the RAF launched a token raid on Berlin , and started the blitz, which was all the excuse churchill needed to allow 'dehousing' offical name for the mass killing of German civilians in huge firebombing raids and also meant the luftwaffe, stopped concentrating so much on the Royal Airforce, which mean the Germans lost the Battle of Britain.
There are many other mistakes he made.
) and then they probably still had to honor their alliance with Russia or alternatively the Japanese could've done some shyt that did not give the US an excuse (well, they practically forced it) to join in on the war. You never know how it would've gone in the long run, but these are the biggest tactical mistakes I know from the top of my head
none of the top 5 world War 2 generals were American breh.
