The brutality of the Fascists led by Nazi Germany and the harm inflicted on mankind are still vividly remembered, and in this catastrophe of mankind, millions of living lives were buried under the cold land, how many people were in different places, how many people died in other places, their homes were not home, their countries were not nations, and the people of the whole world lived in terror. Although under the resistance and blows of the Justice League allies, Justice achieved the final victory,
And looking at how strong Germany was at that time, we know how difficult it was to win this victory.
First, the powerful Nazis
After Hitler came to power, he vigorously pursued the "New Economic Policy", which actually achieved remarkable results, and during that period, Germany's industry developed rapidly.
In the seven years between 1933 and 1939, Germany's industrial output increased dramatically, becoming the world's second largest and Europe's largest economic power.
By 1943, Germany's domestic output had far surpassed that of Britain, France and other countries.
Germany's steel, oil and coal production far exceeds that of other countries, so Germany's conventional weapons production is also far ahead, and German tanks are infinitely more powerful. The abundance of weapons on the battlefield is the real force, and such a strong military strength can naturally allow Germany to "kill all sides" on the battlefield.
Science and technology and the economy have occupied a solid material foundation in the world, domestic political stability and the unity of the people's hearts and minds, and the high mood has helped Germany speed up the pace of annexation.
27 days to conquer Poland, 23 days to conquer Norway, 5 days to conquer the Netherlands, 18 days to conquer Belgium... Even France, Europe's number one army power, faced the sickle offensive of Nazi Germany's famous manstein, which lasted only 39 days.
Germany seems to be invincible and dominates the world, so Hitler has no country in his eyes, the so-called arrogant army will be defeated, and Hitler is an anxious person, during World War II, he pursued the tactic of "lightning attack" and quickly destroyed European countries, but the German army did not make sufficient preparations for war.
Second, the human heart is not enough for the snake to swallow the elephant
Germany's arrogance was soon extinguished.
Arrogant Germany, the ambitious Hitler did not pay any attention to the Soviet Union, but the Soviet army at stalingrad at the end of 1942 completely annihilated 200,000 German troops, punching Germany in the face. However, Germany still had no precipice, and in early 1943 the German army was again defeated in the Battle of Kursk, one of the decisive battles of the Soviet-German battlefield during World War II.
In July of the same year, the bombers of the British and American Air Forces began to bomb Germany strategically from Britain, and Britain used its strength to prove that the victorious countries in World War I were not vegetarians, warning that Germany and Britain were still old powers, and the strength of the Empire's war with colonization all over the world was comparable to That of Germany.
Germany conquered the Soviet Union without defeating Britain, and the two fronts pulled each other apart, no doubt killing themselves.
Germany was materially rich, the people at home did not need to bear much pressure, and even in wartime, the German people still lived a regular eight-hour working day. Soldiers are fighting outside, but the people have no sense of tension. Without war mobilization, domestic support is insufficient.
Germany's own oil reserves have also declined rapidly after a long war, and although Germany is rich in national resources, its oil reserves are not enough, and it has been imported from other countries for a long time. One of the purposes of their attack on the Soviet Union was also because they had taken a fancy to the oil-producing areas of the Soviet Union, and they thought they could quickly take the Soviet Union, but this was not the case.
The Soviet Union is too large, the front line is too long, Germany's historical "blitzkrieg" in the Soviet land can not play a role at all, and the Soviet Union geographical conditions are harsh, into the winter after the Soviet Union's bad weather, Germany's logistics supply is obviously unable to keep up, the German army on the front line is trapped in the Soviet Union.
The determination of the Soviet Union to resist was also unusually strong, this side did not solve the British, that side provoked the fighting nation, Germany was making enemies everywhere, and finally buried itself in the pit.
Three, pig-like teammates
Here Germany dug its own pit for itself, and two German teammates over there, Japan and Italy, also dug pits for Germany.
Germany dared to launch a war during World War II, in addition to its own strength, there is also a reason that Germany has a group of co-conspirator partners, and Japan and Italy, which are the closest to Germany in the Axis group, can be called Germany's "pig teammates". These two teammates, one of them dares to fight, and the other can't beat anyone.
The defeat of Germany is hardly to blame for these two countries.
As Germany's most highly anticipated ally, Japan's economic and military strength should not be underestimated, especially the success of Japan's Meiji Restoration, which has led to the rapid development of Japan's economy, and Japan has developed into the first power in Asia, especially its naval strength, even comparable to that of the United States. It is precisely because its economic strength is not low that anyone in Japan dares to fight.
Germany had planned to use Japan to contain the U.S. Navy, and at the same time to use Japan's geographical advantages to contain the Soviet Union, but both sides were unsuccessful, and Japan also angered the United States because of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the United States formed a beam and pulled Germany into the water.
As for the task of containing the Soviet Union, Japan turned a blind eye to the United States' support for soviet supplies, and did not ask questions, but did not help Germany but did a favor.
Italy and Germany are very close, and their economic strength is not weak, but Italians do not like to fight, whether it is the people or the army, they are not interested in fighting. And looking back at the history of World War II, jokes made by the Italian army abound, do they really come to fight?
Throughout World War II, Italy did not devote itself to the war, only a small number of people such as Mussolini were busy, and the army was unable to work on the front line. In the Soviet theater, Italy's task was to attack Stalingrad, and Germany attacked from the frontal battlefield. At that time, Italy sent 220,000 soldiers.
Dramatically, the Italian front collapsed in less than a day. The Italian army was extremely poor in psychology, and would collapse after a small casualty.
The defeated Italian soldiers fled in a hurry, leaving the German flank completely exposed to the enemy's sight.
When the fascists were defeated in World War II, Germany was busy retreating, Japan was busy cutting its stomach and committing suicide, only Italy was willing to be captured, and even the little girl who could "quiet years" was able to flirt. With such a pig teammate, Germany is really difficult. Not only did it not help, but it was also dragged back.
Two teammates "dropped" at the same time, and before dropping the line, they also led the battle around to taunt the enemy, really wishing that Germany would perish quickly.
Germany was defeated in the end, and Japan and Italy "contributed indispensably".
epilogue
Whether it is the inability to fight on the battlefield caused by insufficient resources, or the lack of ambition to cause the lack of people's hearts to swallow the elephant, Germany has proved a truth with practice, and all acts that run counter to the normal development of mankind will eventually be sanctioned. Germany's defeat in the war was fundamentally due to the fact that fascism was acting against justice. Acts that violate justice cannot be accepted by the world. As the saying goes: You can't live by your own sins. The blasphemy of human life and the trampling of human civilization by Fascist groups such as Germany must be punished. This is the law of human development.
References: World War II, History of World War II, Soviet-German War