re: Was the allies winning WW 2 inevitable?

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The Germans should have started Barbarossa (Russian campaign) a month earlier. The weather was good enough to conduct operations.

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There was a huge force of Panzers southwest of Moscow that sat for weeks doing nothing in the high summer. Hitler dithered on whether they should attack Moscow or head for the oil fields. That delay was fatal for the Germans.

Its doubtful germany or any country could have maintained control of such a vast area. Lets say they controlled russia, all of europe and gained control of the USA. Eventually they would have lost to guerilla tactics or at least had to withdraw. Thats too broad an area to control with a finite number of troops. Morale would start to deteriorate as troops would always be on assignment. Eventually there would be a financial colapse, because war is great for kick starting an economy, but is not the best way to maintain it.

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US getting involved was always a foregone conclusion. FDR knew about Pearl Harbor and let it happen so we could get involved.

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I didn't think you could top that gem, but I was wrong:

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A lot of what Germany did was in defense or in retaliation, they were rarely the aggressor

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Hey can you give me some good WW2 books?

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"The tigers are burning" is a Soviet pov of the battle of kursk. Great read and gives some insight to the scale of this battle. The largest single day oof armored tank combat took place during the battle of kursk.


Someone really hates the battle of kursk to downvote all my post instantly in this thread

Adolf Hitler Was Right! 6 minutes

Once Hitler threw off the chains of their old banking system war was going to happen. But there shouldn't be a mistake about what the war was, it was a war against globalist communists for Germany. Germany's culture had been obliterated in Weimar Germany. People were suffering and life was terrible for the Germans. Also, Germans were being terrorized in their former German areas that were now belonged to other countries after WWI treaty.

Hitler's biggest mistake was liking Britain too much. He identified the English as like Germans and so he tried to avoid war with them. But Churchill and his financiers did not care for that, and as Churchill has stated, this is a war to annihilate the Germans from ever becoming a great people. Under Hitler Germany was becoming a great country. Comparing the GDPs of Nazi Germany to Great Britain illustrated the concern of Churchill greatly. Without the constraints of usury finance Nazi Germany was skyrocketing. And this is before any war stuff started. It would have been in England's interest to align with Germany, they could have kept their Empire and stopped the debasement of their culture, but here we are today and the whole of Europe is a mess.

Italy was a drain. Germany should have probably just taken over Italy's army and lead it.

Rumors are Japan was not the first choice for Hitler on that side of the world. He supposedly wanted nationalist China to help take on Russia, but China was a mess.

After the initial war successes they diverted funds from the air force and that obviously cost the Germans dearly.

He never wanted to enslave the slavs. Again, the war was with the communists and the people running the communist show were mostly Jews.

Hitler was a dreamer 3 minutes

Haavara Agreement

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-- Women were never integrated into the "War" economy

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Adolf Hitler on feminism 6 minutes

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That is true. However, to make things even worse, there are some important reasons to conclude that the German economy NEVER fully switch to a war-footing.

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There is still a huge row over who hurt the Germans worse, the RAF or the USAAF.

Best take is that the RAF have very much the less effect. That is what the Germans say. The Brits got shot to pieces trying some daylight raids early on so they switched to night bombing. They just decided that ‘dehousing’ German workers was a good policy because it was all they could do. They did little to diminish German war production.

The Americans didn’t do much better until:

1. They had a force on hand large enough to properly whack the Germans; about 900 heavy bombers in England on hand from 1/1/44. 2,000 by VE day. Plus the 15th AF in Italy.
2. The new CG General Spaatz decided to focus on Oil targets after 3/1/44. Oil turned out to be the bottleneck. The Germans produced 7,000 fighter planes in July 1944 but had little or no fuel for them. By December their Ardennes offensive had to count on capturing gasoline from American stores.

The GAF needed 175K tons of fuel a month. In 9/44 they received less than 1K tons. With the rainy weather and herculean effort the Germans did recoup some POL production in the fall/winter of 1944. The RAF didn't really operate against Oil targets much. German cities were the preferred target.

The Americans also did something the RAF could not participate in: Destroying the GAF day fighters before OVERLORD. The American were hitting targets the Germans had to defend, Oil refineries and factories of all types. The losses among the German fighter force were catastrophic.

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On Monday, November 14, 1938 President Roosevelt summoned a number of key military advisers to what Eric Hammel has called possibly the most important single meeting in modern world history. The president wanted a large force of -offensive- airplanes. The Air Corps had 12 working strategic bombers and several hundred tactical bombers of dubious utility. FDR told his advisers he wanted 20,000 Army Air Corps aircraft in service and a capacity to build 24,000 a year. For the day these numbers were simply fantastic.

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I read recently that FDR asked General Marshall what he thought of this plan and General Marshall said he didn't like it at all. FDR was a bit nonplussed but in 1940 he picked Marshall for Chief of Staff.

FDR was awesome.

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This is the real story. Once the US industrial machine started rolling, it was just a matter of time.

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The Japanese surely knew in 1940 we were building 7 fast battleships to go with the 15 BB's we already had and 18 heavy carriers to go with the 6 we already had [Ranger and Wasp were not heavy carriers]. They just didn't care.