Hitler knew all about Napolean’s Waterloo.
But like most megalomaniacs, he didn’t care.
Germany lost the war because in the end, they simply ran out of soldiers.
Like leftists today - they see the failure of regime after regime, but “this time” they’ll get it right.
Logistics and some idiocy that the whole of the CCCP could be conquered before winter set in. Why Hitler’s generals didn’t put bullets into the heads of NAZI hierarchy is beyond imagination.
Yes, the invasion of Russian in 1812-1813 — depicted in the figure above — inevitably led to Napolean’s downfall at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
“Germany lost the war because in the end, they simply ran out of soldiers.”
That’s true to a certain extent, but IMHO, the war was lost when North American P-51 Mustangs appeared over the skies of Europe, flying Allied bomber escort missions and crushing what was left of the Luftwaffe. That signaled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany because rgey could no longer defend their airspace and industrial output.
Except that image is not about Waterloo.
We could build so much stuff so much faster than Germany, Japan, and Italy combined.
For example....aircraft production:
US produced 324,000 planes of all types.
The Axis powers....222,235.
We simply overwhelmed them.
Also, consider the US, through Lend Lease, aided the UK and the USSR.
It is estimated we fed half of the Soviet Union.
In addition, we were the only country to develop the Bomb....in addition to everything else we manufactured.
And food, oil, and oh yes, their cities were leveled by the 8th AF.
Hmmmm... Maybe that's the reason for the 10's of thousands of rat breeding Muslims they're taking into Germany... Churchill once said the muslim's made amazing soldiers. But he also said they were like a pack of mad dogs.... Or, some such thing.......
The Germans were initially welcomed as liberators by some in the USSR - especially Ukrainians, no doubt. But Hitler wasn’t interested in merely controlling Eastern Europeans - he wanted Germans to replace them. “Lebensraum,” don’t you know. Not that the Soviets’ treatment of Polish POWs was anything to write home about.Hitler considered Eastern Europeans “untermenchen” - subhuman - and the German Army treated them accordingly.
The upshot was that the Russians under Stalin had no reason to treat the Germans any better than they had been treated - and the Germans treated Russian prisoners like dirt, far worse than they (generally) treated American or British they captured.
Neither Stalin nor Hitler accepted the idea of surrender by anyone under his command. Russians who were captured by the Germans and “rescued” by Americans were forced to go back to the USSR despite their desperate - and justified - fear of their fate upon their return.