Excellent point, imho, if I dare say this: one of the fundamental spiritual lessons of the Second World War.
But on the issue of Nazi "super weapons" -- Wunderwaffe -- it turns out, there's a huge list of them, over 130 different weapons systems by my count.
They included:
So it's hard to imagine today how any of these super-weapons might have changed the war's course by even weeks, much less months or years.
Still many such German projects were completed and improved on after the war, and some (i.e., ME-262 jet fighter) could even have changed the war if fielded sooner and used more effectively.
Allies inspecting German Uranverein facility:
I was flabbergasted to see that enormous Ratte tank, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. The one you showed is the 1,000-ton, while the 1,500-ton is truly a sight to see!
Wow! Really cool stuff - glad my dad and my uncles never got to see it first-hand! I wasn’t aware of even a small fraction of the things they were working on.
Thanks for the post, and especially all the neat pictures.