“Early on in the war, Germany out-produced the British and U.S. in everything”
It boggles my mind, Germany less than the size of Texas, took on just about the entire world and kicked butt for as long as they did.
“It boggles my mind, Germany less than the size of Texas, took on just about the entire world and kicked butt for as long as they did.”
Yep, in WWI and in WWII. And in both wars, their “allies” were more millstones than helpful.
The German people, especially in the early 1900’s were quite robust and creative. Most forget, that before WWI, Germany was an absolute hotbed of human culture. Music, Art, Sport, Academia, they were the envy of the world.
It is too bad Hitler had to come along and mess all that up. (not that the people are blameless mind you). The German leader in WWI was demonized by the west, but he was nothing compared to Hitler. Hitler was the true demon, and Germans have been paying for it ever since.
After WWI, most nations reduced their military, and didn't produce any new weapons, ships, planes, etc. Hitler got a jump start on all of them, and had a decent cache of military machines at his disposal once he decided to make the move. The rest of us had to play catch-up...and it took a bit of time. I saw a program a while back that said several of the German subs, and ships from WWI that had been scrapped in Scapa Flow, Scotland were sold to a newly formed salvage company. They in turn sold quite a bit of those salvaged ships/subs back to Germany, who at the time was rearming, and in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.