re: Why is WW1 Germany overshadowed by WW2 Germany

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You’re right they didn’t have boats they had the most formidable submarines on the planet at the time. Maybe you heard of them? U-boats. They would’ve just continued to sink every British supply ship they could which was a LOT of them. Idiot

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You do realize there’s a counter to U-boats right? Also, do U-boats carry out amphibious operations? Glue logic

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There was no chance of WW2 Germany winning after the British decided to fight until the end

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The Germans didn’t have near the amount of U-boats as many people are led to believe. Plus, with the Enigma code being broken, the improvement of sonar/passive listening devices, and convoying; the U-boats were having a tough go of it by mid-43.

Because in WW2, the German Empire stretched from the channel to Moscow from Norway to the Sahara . The last empire won through conquest we have seen on a large scale.

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The world would have been a much better place if Germany had won WWI before the USA got involved.

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Marxist Revolution erupts from the ruins of defeated Britain and/or France. There's a modern industrial socialist state to bookend with agrarian Russia. Exhausted Germany fares no better in victory than it did in defeat in our timeline, eventually succumbing to socialist revolution as well. A united Red Europe rises as the dominant world power...

Maybe that thing people call timeline? Not to mention advancement in technology as well as the US becoming a superpower because of WW2?

Because WWII overshadows WWI in the public perception. For starters, it truly was global, with major theaters on both sides of the globe. WWI had a few sideshows in the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey. But the vast majority of the war was concentrated in Europe. Contrast that to WWII that had major theaters in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, China, and across the expanse of the Pacific. And while WWI had a handful of naval engagements, there was only one major naval battle and it was indecisive meanwhile WWII saw the largest naval campaign in history.

Also, it’s far more well documented via film than WWI. And on top of that all, it was more recent than WWI.

I vaguely remember meeting one WWI vet when I was a little kid and I’m in my mid-50s. Almost everyone over the age of 20 though probably knows, or knew multiple WWII vets. So the war is more personal.

And finally, on top of all that, from the American perspective WWII was a far bigger deal than WWI. The US missed the first almost three years of WWI, only declaring war in April 1917. And even then it wasn’t until really 1918 until large numbers of Americans were involved in the fighting, only a matter of a few months, before the war ended. By the end of the war, a little under 5 million American men were mobilized. But only about 1.5 million actually saw combat.

Meanwhile, we were in WWII for three and a half years. And the level of both industrial and military mobilization for WWII dwarfed that of WWI. While a little under 5 million men were called up for WWI, over three times that number were called up for WWII and even those who never wore a uniform still had their life drastically impacted by the war via wartime rationing and the fact our entire economy was completely dedicated to war production. Look at automobiles for example. In 1940, 4.68 million automobiles were produced in the US. In 1942, that number dropped to less than 200K, and all those were built in the early months of 1942. That’s because all civilian auto production in the US was suspended so those factories could be deduced to producing everything from bombers to jeeps. Imagine that today. All civilian auto plants just stopped making cars. Imagine that today. But that’s the extent of how the war touched every man, woman, and child in American between 1941 and 1945.

You probably could put your finger on it if you just concentrate.

Because they waited till World War II to bomb Pearl Harbor.