Well, the Germans were also being blamed for everyone else deciding to go to war with Germany in WWI. At the same time the Bolsheviks were blaming property owners for everything and killed 30-40 million people in Eastern Europe. The Germans realized that Britain and the U.S. had the same fate in mind for them. So, rather than allow a purge they elected Hitler, a man that saw front line combat for virtually the entirety of the great war.
Hitler, mentally deranged from years of combat experience then got 30-40 million Germanic people killed anyway while also killing 12 million political prisoners that would have sided with the Bolsheviks against the Germans, on top of those casualties, another 40 million people across Russia and Asia died. Many nations were ruthlessly occupied by the soviets, and the CCP came out of the conflict. for generations afterward another 100 million would die as a result also. Roughly 200 million people all together across Europe, Russia and Asia.
Fact is shit is complicated. There is a bigger group of armed people hunting deer in 4 or 5 U.S. states than all of the first line combat troops of the armies of WWII combined. They are mechanized to degree unimagined in the early 40s, and they have modern first world consumer level chemicals and technology that would also be unimaginable in the 40s.
Well, the Germans were also being blamed for everyone else deciding to go to war with Germany in WWI. At the same time the Bolsheviks were blaming property owners for everything and killed 30-40 million people in Eastern Europe. The Germans realized that Britain and the U.S. had the same fate in mind for them. So, rather than allow a purge they elected Hitler, a man that saw front line combat for virtually the entirety of the great war.
Hitler, mentally deranged from years of combat experience then got 30-40 million Germanic people killed anyway while also killing 12 million political prisoners that would have sided with the Bolsheviks against the Germans, on top of those casualties, another 40 million people across Russia and Asia died. Many nations were ruthlessly occupied by the soviets, and the CCP came out of the conflict. for generations afterward another 100 million would die as a result also. Roughly 200 million people all together across Europe, Russia and Asia.
Fact is shit is complicated. There is a bigger group of armed people hunting deer in 4 or 5 U.S. states than all of the first line combat troops of the armies of WWII combined. They are mechanized to degree unimagined in the early 40s, and they have modern first world consumer level chemicals and technology that would also be unimaginable in the 40s.