Is the fact that Nazi Germany virtually fought on the Western and Eastern Fronts by themselves against the...?

Question

Allies in WW2 (for six years) a testament to their military ability and strategic skills?

I know Japan fought in the Pacific Theater, but Germany fought more opposition and fought on the Eastern Front. That part of WW2, fought against the Soviet Union, Romania, and Bulgaria, was one of the largest, deadliest, and destructive theaters of war in recorded history. It eventually gave rise to the Soviet Union as a superpower and brought the demise of the Third Reich.

There were other Axis powers, if they deserve being called powers, besides Germany and Japan. Italy was one, but what did they really contribute besides their land space. Mussolini was Hitler's puppet. Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Thailand, and the Slovak Republic were involved but mainly out of fear of being invaded and having their government being taken over by Germany. So besides Germany in Europe and Japan in the Pacific, who else really put up a serious threat to the Allies?

By no means am I a Nazi apologist or support any Nazi ideologies. But I admire they're advanced technology and military know how during WW2. Of course it wasn't perfect, as they should have never tried to invade Russia.

Answer 1

more a testament to their strategic blunder. A two front war spelled doom, even Mein Kampf stated it would be folly to fight a two front war. The fact that they did conquer most of Europe and reached the banks of the Volga was testament to their blitzkrieg tactics and superior armour.

Answer 2

No one has ever questioned the fact that the German character, educational system, large population, and Imperial history, always made Germany one of the most formidable military powers in the world. However. Germany was not fighting the allies for six years. Only Britain stood alone against Germany from 1940 with the fall of France, to the end of 1942 when both America and the U.S.S.R. started to provide a bit of opposition.

One of the things that is never mentioned nowadays, is that the Nazis were financed by American money, right up until 1941 when U-boats started to sink American ships.

Where else could Hitler get the money to finance the building of all these armaments factories in the 1930's? Germany had been bankrupted by inflation during the time of the Weimar Republic, a coalition government which ruled Germany until Hitler came to power in 1933.

He got it from America who wanted to use the Nazis to fight against communism in Spain and in the U.S.S.R. They also wanted the Nazis to destroy the British Empire which they felt was an obstruction to American imperial and territorial ambitions.

Too late, as usual, the Americans discovered they had a tiger by the tail and that Hitler by conquest had got out of their control.

Why, do you imagine, America has this huge guilt complex about Israel? Perhaps the fact that they financed the Holocaust may have something to do with it?

Answer 3

operation barbarossa (the invasion of russia) began on june 22, 1941. by the end of the battle of kursk (july 20th, 1943) the german army was finished as an offensive force, and it was just a matter of how long it would take the allies to actually impose their 'total surrender' on what was left of the broken wehrmacht.

by the most generous estimate the third reich fought on two fronts for two years, not six.

when one remembers that at the opening of barbarossa hitler controlled every major armaments factory in europe, while the soviet army was grotesquely weakened by years of stalinist purges; and that the russian's historical tactic in the face of invasion from the west has always been to retreat until the next spring, the two years shrinks to about eight months of successful campaigning.

the wehrmacht never took any major russian city (kiev is ukrainian) and no credible army would have attempted to invade russia over a winter campaign using so many horses anyway.

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hitler was probably the worst military strategist to lead an invasion since santa anna. his troops successfully stormed through france in the summer of 1940, but then the french government had been on the verge of political collapse for years. after the fall of france there were no more important military victories for germany in wwii.

italy's performance in wwii is largely misunderstood by people who haven't looked at the history properly. mussolini took italy into the war on germany's side because he was aware that his own country was on the verge of a civil war which would have ousted him. after the massive defeats by wavell in north africa italy went into an effective state of civil war anyway, so that the germans had to invade italy themselves in 1943 to stop the entire country from changing sides.

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you clearly don't know very much about the real history of wwii - you have just watched a handful of warfilms (or maybe only played some computer games).

britain stood alone against germany from the summer of 1940 to the spring of 1942. hitler had the whole of europe at this feet, and he couldn't even neutralise a medium size power on the other side of the channel.

that is how good he was.

Answer 4

authentic, Germany's determination to invade Russia replaced into one in all, if no longer the biggest errors of WWII. yet, could u anticipate "little, unknown countries" at that element to combat on their very own against a later "Superpower" interior the Soviet Union and the British? Come on, with the ambitious, and brave British with the desperate, militaristic Soviets, how would desire to a minimum of one u . s . compete? it is not considerable in the event that they outfitted up troops for many of years, or how technologically stepped forward u are. The Germans have been already doomed!

Answer 5

I discovered a little known fact when I was in India in 76. The Indians sent a whole regiment to Germany to fight with the Germans. First of all Germany considered them Arian brothers. Secondly the Indians were trying to get rid of the British who were controlling their country. Little is told what happened to these guys or where they fought. It would be interesting to know.
After the war independence came to India.

Answer 6

If you're talking strategy I would think the decision to invade Russia was a fatal one.

Answer 7

Yes well would you have fort with them, under that idiot Hitler?
Regards
Ryan Dior

Answer 8

But they lost!

Answer 9

No one.....