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re: 73 Years ago today: Battle of Stalingrad ends with the surrender of 6th Army
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:38 am to athenslife101
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:38 am to athenslife101
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Because, despite claiming neutrality, the US was giving Great Britain a ton of supplies. Hitler wanted an excuse to go after the shipping routes. No one really respected the US military at the time and they didn't think the US would be a real threat
Gargantuan mistake on his part. The U.S. was already the world's biggest economy and had the industrial capacity to build armaments at a pace Germany had no hope of ever keeping up with. Add in the fact the U.S. had millions upon millions of men it could put into uniform and it becomes clear to anyone that Germany could not hope to match the U.S. from a military standpoint. Then on top of that add in the fact Germany was already locked in a war with both Great Britain and the USSR... it just makes no sense. It's the definition of insanity.
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Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:43 am to Darth_Vader
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It's the definition of insanity.
Certainly, and you have to wonder why the German military let that nutjob completely loose without turning on him when he was making so many obvious blunders.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:51 am to Darth_Vader
Yes, it was a mistake. But the US had been isolationist for the past 15 years. Isolation was still a huge cause in the US. The Europeans never really thought the US government had the political capital to engage in a high casualty war in Europe.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 11:24 am to Darth_Vader
Re the comments about Hitler's double front being insane, if you read the Rise & Fall of The Third Reich, it was Hitler's "plan" to defeat England before the U.S. had time to get organized for war, leaving the U.S. no base to operate from in fighting Germany. He also felt, as noted here, that Russia would fold its cards before the U.S. got involved.
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