What happened during WWII?
Was Hitler a puppet?
Who was his handler?
What was the purpose?
>>> What was the real purpose of the war? <<<
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What happened during WWII
A whole lot of societal, political, and economic upheaval.
It ended the British Empire for one thing (If Britain could not protect her colonial possession what good was she?).
Made a lot people rich.
Broke a lot more people.
Created loads and loads of homeless, displaced people.
Absolutely flattened Germany’s industrial base.
Flattened Japan’s industrial base and ended its “Prussian Style” statism.
Left the United States the only intact great industrial power after the war.
In the U.S., it mobilized the entire nation into the war effort, including millions of women, to work in factories.
Oh, and it left millions of people dead.
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If Hitler was a puppet it was of a few New York bankers (Brown Bros.?) and German armaments manufacturers, e.g., Krupps.
I’m not a student of this period but I don’t recall Hitler having a “Col. House” character in his inner circle. Didn’t Hitler have his mentor killed when he became a possible rival?
The purpose of WW2 was to, well a whole lot of things happened from the German invasion of Poland to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Britain fought Germany to defend its island and Japan to take back its colonial possessions. We fought Japan because of Pearl Harbor and “to be specific, it’s our Pacific.” The Soviet Union fought Germany because the Krauts invaded.
The cynic in me says the real purpose of WW2 was the list of things I’ve written in answer to “What happened during WWII.” It seems to have been an effort to “hurry things up, goddamit!”