Now that the war is over in Europe in the series I’m having a hard time processing it. It just seems really strange and weird to me. I know it’s all history and we know the outcome but I’ve tried to put that aside and look at it from a logical standpoint and I just don’t see how Germany wins the war from the start.
As soon as Germany goes into Poland they start committing war crimes. Pillaging, destroying and killing anyone they don’t like for whatever reason they want. France and Great Britain are now at war with Germany they’re not going to let Germany keep Poland. Nor would they let Germany keep an empire spanning from Paris France to Moscow Russia. It’s simply too big and too much power would be in the hands of an aggressive and oppressive country that no one really likes. Germany is forcing to fight to the end.
It’s also strange how Germany was able to get all the people to go for it. I understand the hatred for the “Jews”, but it’s one thing to hate a particular group. You can move to a different part of the country or something. It’s a whole other thing to stake your career, life, families lives, friends and everything else to tear through Europe trying to rid the world of “Jews”. This is seems so stupid to me. I think it would be stupid for an for an extremely racist person also. Also if Germany would of just exterminated all it’s own “Jews” and didn’t invade another country. No one would have cared at all.
Lastly, I find it so strange how committed to cause the Germans were. They wouldn’t abandon Hitler and they wouldn’t surrender while he is alive. They fought all the way to Stalingrad and Moscow and then lost all that territory and retreat all the way back to Berlin. They put down an uprising too. War was lost for years and they knew it yet they still fought on till Berlin and Hitler were dead. Even when Berlin was going to fall no one went into Hitler’s bunker and shot him.
The lesson that I’ve learned and its more important than anything that is talked about is the Nazi Ideology. The Nazi’s took a political ideology to the extreme and it killed them. They had three options at the end of this war. They could commit suicide, executed or go to jail. Not to mention whatever option they chose. History and all their work will hate them forever. They had to have recognize this.
We’re not talking about a bunch of morons either. The Nazi government were smart, successful, and highly motivated. They all were successful in their chosen professions. They all had families and friends and loved ones. Herman Goring he don’t need to be doing this. He’s a WWI Ace during the golden age of flight. He go work for Messerschmitt or any other plane manufacture make a fortune and become a legend in the Aerospace community. Joseph Goebbels has his Ph.D in writing and reads and writes all the time. Wrote fifteen books on Nazism. He don’t need to be doing that. He could be writing those cheese sex novels that women love and he’d make a fortune. He also has seven kids. Nazism got him to kill his own six children, his wife and himself.
I can’t hate the Nazi’s. I find the Nazi’s very sad. They adopted a political ideology, let it consume them, spent the last six years of their lives in a war killing, destroying and pillaging everything they possibly could, and then it killed them and everyone they ever cared about and destroyed everything they cared about. I can’t believe Nazism is still a thing. If your a Neo Nazi or think Nazism is a good thing then your an idiot. It’s gonna get you killed.
The Nazi’s taught the world a very important lesson. Don’t take your politics too seriously. It can kill you.
I don’t know I just find it really strange how successful people could logically think that WWII would be a good idea and it would actually work. Most politicians leave themselves outs, but not the Nazi’s. I just find it really strange.