(November 13, 2015 at 12:40 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I agree with most of what you wrote except this:Sure, Germany had a few good fighter planes but it didn't have any long range heavy bombers. It had some submarines but it didn't have a fleet of battleships and aircraft carriers. It didn't even have any row boats to use to invade England. It didn't have any effective weapon systems except for tanks and a few V2 rockets, which didn't carry effective warheads. Hitler couldn't stop the Allies from bombing Germany at will 24/7/365. He couldn't maintain his army in Russia and couldn't keep them supplied. He could never reach the Russian war industry. He was basically an idiot as a military commander. If he had had any worthwhile military commanders they would have blown his head off for being stupid.
(November 13, 2015 at 5:03 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: He didn't have a navy or an air force. He didn't have any useful weapon systems and he couldn't support his troops in the field.
Setting aside the fact that the Luftwaffe was a formidable CAS air force of 3300+ machines at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Germans had a potentially war-winning weapon against the Brits in the U-boat. Had they decided to concentrate on building those instead of fulfilling Plan Z, they could have erected a blockade that perhaps could have won the war for them.
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