Memes

At no point were the Nazis close to winning. After the Soviets won the battle of Stalingrad in 1943 the Nazis were on full retreat until Berlin got captured.

Even leading up to up 1943, Germany had its oil nearly cut off. They became dependent on Romania for their supply. This may sound like a cartoon, but Nazis were dragging their tanks to the frontline using horses.

Germany simply did not have the industrial or logistic capacity to win WW2 at any point. The Nazis had already ransacked the German economy through privatization reforms and selling off anything that wasn't nailed down. Invading Poland incurred a bunch of sanctions and embargos that resulted in Germany's only primary oil trade coming from uhhh..the Soviet Union, so the Nazis had the brilliant idea of declaring war on their main source of gasoline.

What does it take to impress you? To what would you assign their disturbing success?

Meth chocolate, fascism, and taking on armies using WWI tech and tactics

To what would you assign their disturbing success?

Material support from the Western ruling class who wanted Hitler to destroy communism for them.

Nazi

Small country? They were a highly industrialized, highly educated and still quite materially wealthy colonial power going into the wars. They didn't need to be competent. Enough people went along with them and there was plenty of residual wealth to burn on the war machine.

You don't need to be an architect to burn down a building.

👆nazi