In world war 2 USA was nothing where as Germany was super power and Soviet was china of that era a developing military with lost of comrades. UK was the only surviving nation in Europe who only contributed in breaking enigma which is a hoax. I think uboats were enough for any Atlantic navy.
Bro, I am not sure what kind of revisionist history you are reading but I am well-versed in WW2 era stuff.
Red Army fought as well as it could but it was being pushed back by advancing Wehrmacht columns until US solved Red Army's logistics problems (Lend Lease Program). US also made it impractical for the Wehrmacht to replenish their forces in the Eastern front since 1943, by joining hands with the British, and attacking and routing German positions across Africa (including legendary German commander Erwin Rommel), and then thrust into Italy in 1943. Next big thrust came via Normandy in 1944, and it was game over for the Wehrmacht afterwards. Pay proper attention and you will notice that the Wehrmacht began to suffer setbacks in the Eastern front since 1943, and this is not mere coincidence. American + British bombers were also subjecting German mainland to strategic bombing runs since 1943, and American + British combat aircraft were thining German Air Force in the process. German Air Force diminished by 1944.
Hitler himself admitted that US was the single biggest threat to the Third Reich, because US was creating problems for German forces almost everywhere.
Above all, Enigma decoding wasn't a hoax. It was a breakthrough for Allied forces, in understanding German communication techniques, and this changed the course of WW2 in their favor.
@Desert Fox
You both made valid points, although I would disagree that Germany was a superpower.
Germany was not a superpower because it lacked two key ingredients necessary to become one:
1) raw materials and resources (oil, rubber, timber, various metals like iron, copper, nickel, etc.)
2) as well as strategic depth (like the Soviet Union) or the protection of natural barriers (like USA & Britain's oceanic barriers).
Germany certainly was an
aspiring superpower, and it certainly had one major advantage over all of its adversaries and that was technological advancement and know-how. Germans in general are by their nature a very civilized and productive people. Germany was facing a brain drain during the 19th and early 20th centuries when millions of Germans had immigrated to America thus taking their productivity with them and "melting" into the American "melting pot" (the entire American midwest is populated by descendants of German origin). The famous Brooklyn Bridge (first of its kind) was designed by a German engineer. The famous American general who commanded coalition forces during Operation Desert Storm was General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf.
This is why Hitler did indeed consider America the greater and long term threat whereas the Soviet Union was the immediate threat, and as Hitler called it "the right arm of the international Jewish plutocracy".
This is also why Hitler sought lebensraum in Russia, because only a continental power could challenge the looming threat of American hegemony.
Hitler explains his foreign policy agenda in his second book, which is a very interesting read on his views about relations between nations, and he certainly was a Machiavellian and a strict believer of real politics, though in practice he did make some ideological decisions during WW2 that certainly contributed to his defeat, though this shows more of his integrity.
But then again, men are ideological beings.
In world war 2 USA was nothing where as Germany was super power
Yes, technologically Germans were ahead, but America was an industrial behemoth with the entire North and South American continent at its disposal.
Hitler himself admitted that US was the single biggest threat to the Third Reich, because US was creating problems for German forces almost everywhere.
Yes this is true. USA: long-term threat, Soviet Union: immediate threat
Red army is indeed overrated, especially in the movies.
For the Soviets it was all about quantity. But this isn't to say there wasn't quality either.
Soviets built the first amphibious tanks. They built the first high altitude bomber that had the capacity to sustain oxygen supplies to the crewmen at altitudes where oxygen did not exist and where enemy interceptors could not reach. They built the first true heavy tank (KV series) that was operational as early as 1939 just in time for WW2 (coincidence? I think not. And then people say Stalin was "unprepared" for war, LOL).
Soviet Union was basically one large military industrial complex where everything was aimed towards military production and R&D.
Imagine living in a society where in the name of collectivization food is distributed in rations and the people are worked to fulfill extreme quotas in the name of socialism and a distant utopian dream, feeding a massive war machine being prepared to carry the "world revolution" against the "capitalist nations" (which for a communist is any society that is not communist).
Communism interprets all of history through materialist lens, which is why it views humans as no different from animals, or "human material" there too be expended. Communism denies that a soul exists. Basically humans are animals who happen to be creative with their environment, therefore more evolved, but still animals. In other words, Communism only recognizes a humans base urges (sleep, sex, eat, defecate, etc.) and not the creative, spiritual and personal factor known as the soul, or the spirit.
The real reason there was a failure in Eastern front is what
@Desert Fox said....lot of mixed competing objectives between OKW (esp Halder) and Hitler. Hitler original gut feeling to go for the oil and wheat in one single thrust (and deny the soviets of that), was in hindsight probably the best strategy. But it was not followed (and instead conflated with drive to Moscow and helping the Finns out up north...and nothing was really a "primary objective"....but just lot of secondary ones which reduced velocity of the (broad) front, played to USSR strengths long term and created massive logistics nightmare no matter how good your army is).
Well said. And I would also add to this that Germany had to carry the weight of her European allies who were for the most part industrially underdeveloped.
Whereas the Western allies and Soviet Union were all industrially primed with almost unlimited manpower.
Honestly, looking at this, one can only consider the Germans titans, regardless of their defeat.
