chaspoppcap wrote:
NWsider4-3-3 wrote:
WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
NWsider4-3-3 wrote:
the germans don't win any scenario unless they secure malta and them and their jr. partner the italians, win n. africa first. if that happened, every british naval/merchant craft, would have had to sail around s. africa. they had over 1 year to accomplish this (italy entrance into the war - may 1940 until barbarrosa june 1941). the afrika korps was a reaction to italian futility, the germans had totally ignored the importance of n. africa and eliminating malta as a massive stone in the shoe. an example is the military (strategic and tactical) intellect of kesselring vs. goring.
at the end of the day, the germans couldn't keep up with reserves. if there was a 115 mile front and the soviets and germans each had 6 divisions on those 115 miles, the soviets may have had 3 reserve divisions, the germans had none. will never win any war of attrition that way.
i agree with the article.
This is a very practical answer, but if war was just about the numbers France would not have fallen in a month.
the germans had how many fronts in 1943 and 1944? it wasn't a numbers game in the spring of 1940. plenty of reserves.
Well, not just active fronts but garrisons
active front Russia and Africa
Large Garrisons-France,low countries, Greece,Yugoslavia,Norway(over 200,000). Plus you had all the men involved in the final solution. And this is a big one,the Germans did not go to a wartime economy footing until 1944
yes, maybe the nazis should have waited until they 'won' the war, then implement their philosophical policies - maybe they would have had more skilled and unskilled workers, been able to extract more resources and been able to recruit more foreigners - particularly to fight the soviets.
it appears that every nation the nazis conquered, turned out to be a net drag on german manpower, resources and logistics. so, what's the point of goose-stepping into all these nations? turns out that himmler should have been kept in a closet, then released after the war was won.