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How was Germany able to field such large army's in the world wars
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:55 am
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:55 am
with their land mass being so small?
saw in another thread that Germany is about the size of Montana
saw in another thread that Germany is about the size of Montana
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Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:56 am to hawgfaninc
A large population? 
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:57 am to hawgfaninc
Size of Montana and three times the current population of Texas. It's always been densely populated.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:58 am to hawgfaninc
Hot uninhibited blondes!! 
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:58 am to hawgfaninc
There's like 80 million people here 
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:58 am to hawgfaninc
Not everyone in the German army was German
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:58 am to hawgfaninc
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How was Germany able to field such large army's in the world wars
lack of oilfield careers for young men.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:59 am to hawgfaninc
Also during the world wars if you were old enough and able bodied, you fought.
You didn't have a choice.
You didn't have a choice.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:01 am to upgrayedd
Germany pre-1945 was about 33% larger and had around 80 million people. Then you had the conquered territories incorporated and ethnic Germans living abroad. Ukrainians, Lithuanians and other groups that hated the USSR also fought on the Axis side.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:02 am to hawgfaninc
80 million people in 1939 even after being decimated by WWI.
That doesn’t include population in the territories they quickly took over and militarized.
That doesn’t include population in the territories they quickly took over and militarized.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:02 am to Fat Harry
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Germany pre-1945 was about 33% larger and had around 80 million people. Then you had the conquered territories incorporated and ethnic Germans living abroad. Ukrainians, Lithuanians and other groups that hated the USSR also fought on the Axis side.
Austrians, Czechs
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:03 am to hawgfaninc
Roids
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:04 am to hawgfaninc
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their land mass
There is no Mississippi in Germany.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:11 am to hawgfaninc
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with their land mass being so small? saw in another thread that Germany is about the size of Montana
The Germans (actually Prussians) basically invented the concept of a modern conscript based, well trained large standing army based on a combination of a regular standing army coupled with large reserves of those who's time in the regular army had expired. This allowed them to maximize the military utilization their sizeable reserves of manpower.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:11 am to hawgfaninc
We really are inefficient in use of our population space.
The worlds population could fit in New Zealand if everywhere was as dense as Manhattan. Surely a country the size of Germany could fit a large population.
The worlds population could fit in New Zealand if everywhere was as dense as Manhattan. Surely a country the size of Germany could fit a large population.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:16 am to hawgfaninc
They had a booming population. It was actually kind of a problem for them. They were like modern China, on a smaller scale. Industrialization coupled with better, scientific healthcare methods and improved nutrition, along with becoming a unified country instead of 100 little kingdoms unleashed a wave of population. If the wars hadn't killed so many young men it's interesting to ponder what crises they may have faced given their population growth pre-WWI. A lot more immigration to America, but possibly also famine and unrest/revolution. They probably needed more arable land to feed their people and living space and may have started a different war anyway just to get at the breadbasket plains of the Ukraine.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:18 am to tween the hedges
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The worlds population could fit in New Zealand if everywhere was as dense as Manhattan. Surely a country the size of Germany could fit a large population
Fit, but not feed. If Central Park were a farm it couldn't feed Manhattan.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:18 am to tween the hedges
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The worlds population could fit in New Zealand if everywhere was as dense as Manhattan. Surely a country the size of Germany could fit a large population.
Some perspective.
Germany 1914: 68 million people
Russia 1914: 166 million people
USA 1914: 92 million
Germany 1939: 80 million
Russia (USSR) 1939: 169 million (note that their population only went up 3 mil between the wars)
USA 1939: 132 million
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:20 am to Darth_Vader
Crazy that the German pop went up 12 mil after a world war and massive depression.
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