(January 31, 2016 at 3:08 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(January 30, 2016 at 7:44 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: They lost the war because they picked a fight with everyone at once. They had rather weak allies in their own little group and decided to take on not only the Russians and Americans but also the British who could mobilise the resources of their empire and still had the most powerful navy in the world. After lightening war only got them so far they were stuck in a war of attrition that they couldn't possibly win.The Nazis actually lost the war for maybe a thousand reasons. The primary reason was that they were basically stupid. They were done for as soon as they fired the first shot.
If the UK had capitulated like France and Holland etc the prospect would have been different. The US probably wouldn't have gotten involved, they certainly wouldn't have had the handy launch pad just off France, and the Nazis would have been able to focus on Russia. What I'm saying is there was a chance they could have won but not in the reckless way they went about stuff. There was a plot to kill Hitler which was halted because they decided that if he was killed Germany might have gained a competent leader and start to win again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Foxley
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
