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[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 4 minutes ago

They wanted to ally with the British. They ended up fighting them and losing.

Also the price the Americans could manufacture things at really controlled the war. The Americans saved the war for the small price of: them becoming the richest country in the world, lending huge amounts of money that wouldn't be paid of for generations, completely destroying the competition including close allies in a way that's never been done before or since, changing the world order in their favour. From a "Jewified" country maybe Hitler should have expected that.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago

Got to be honest, losing is a very inferior gene trait.

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Well, it was one World War.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 34 points 6 hours ago

And that is why Nazis are the biggest losers in History.

Not only did they claim their army was the best, but their people were also the best. So losing after a single war proves their army wasn't the strongest and their people weren't the best.

They also got beaten by a combination of different countries who allow anyone to join.

Meaning, the Nazis were beaten by diversity and inclusivity.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 hour ago

There's also the funny story that the Germans were trying to break the allies code at the same time as the allies were trying to break enigma + all the other non-famous ones that they had

The Germans didn't have a great lot of luck though with it because they were so dismissive of anyone that wasn't normal. So basically all the intellectuals and the mathematicians were either in a prison camp or were just not allowed to join on the basis they were a bit odd. The allies employed someone who couldn't really get the hang of cups, but he was a hell of a mathematician so they put up with it

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 15 points 4 hours ago

The Confederates, for the non-Americans, take challenge to that.

They were the opposing force during the American Civil War, trying to keep slavery. Their reign was so short, even a can of beans last longer than they did.

And yet that doesn't stop chucklefucks in the American South proudly showing their Confederate flag, all because America is too chicken shit to call them losers.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

Did they claim that their race is stronger than the enemy?

[-] Perilous@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 hours ago

But it at least outlasted a lettuce, I think.

[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 83 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)
[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 minutes ago

It’s called mind games, if the Soviets ran into him they would think they went too far

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago
[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 minutes ago

They won the first worldwide war if you count Prussia though

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

The European World Wars only produced losers. WW1 signaled the beginning of the end of the British Empire, the escalated decline of the French Empire, and the total collapse of the Russian Empire. WW2 obliterated a century of industrial development and squandered a generation of young people on a pointless pissing contest, only to hand the continent to a pair of foreign superpowers.

The US came out ahead in both wars primarily because they were the last to join and the only ones to escape virtually unscathed.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Then we felt left out and decided that we wanted to be destroyed by fascism, too.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

We exported fascism into Europe initially. America has a long and horrible history of fascism, straight back to the colonial era. By the early 20th century, guys like Henry Ford were quite literally churning out the textbook definition of antisemitism (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion) and shipping it all across the Old World, to stock the furnace of racial animus and ramp the continent up into a second world war.

Then we harvested the remnants of fascism back into our own country after German Nazism failed. The open-borders policy extended to German military and science officers was a shocking reversal relative to our naked hostility towards Jewish refugees and other European dissidents in the run up to the wars.

We weren't destroyed by fascism. We were its wellspring. We sent it out abroad, like the seeds of an evil dandelion, and then we reaped what we'd sown when those seeds blossomed.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

The political inclinations of monarchist Germany weren't anything to brag about. The German Colonial Empire was just as racist, vulgar, and blood drenched as anything the rest of the continent produced.

Nazis brought the imperial tendencies home to Berlin. They didn't invent them from whole cloth.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

No, but they were the same country.

[-] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

What war had the nazi zombies?

[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 12 hours ago

Well, not to defend the nazis or anything, but they did manage to make considerable amounts of damage and it took multiple great powers working together to beat them back.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 hours ago

Yes, they were beaten by a group of different people who let anyone join.

Nazis were literally defeated by diversity and inclusivity.

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 50 points 10 hours ago

That's how Fascists work though. They pick fights with bigger and bigger opponents -- because they're invulnerable, you see -- until they lose. Their economy was absolutely insane, and required flat out pillaging their neighbours. Eventually your neighbours are too big to pillage.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 26 points 10 hours ago

Isn't that not just an imperialistic trait, not necessarily a fascistic one? Franco's Spain didn't collapse, while it was still very much fascistic.

All the while, this trait is very much applicable to the Roman, Ottoman, Soviet or US empires.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Historians debate just how fascist Franco was. Hell, Orwell wasn't even quite sure, and he was very open about the fact that he went to Spain to kill a fascist.

Edit: a choice passage out of Homage to Catalonia, emphasis added:

But there were several points that escaped general notice. To begin with, Franco was not strictly comparable with Hitler or Mussolini. His rising was a military mutiny backed up by the aristocracy and the Church, and in the main, especially at the beginning, it was an attempt not so much to impose Fascism as to restore feudalism. This meant that Franco had against him not only the working class but also various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie—the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form. More important than this was the fact that the Spanish working class did not, as we might conceivably do in England, resist Franco in the name of 'democracy' and the status quo; their resistance was accompanied by—one might almost say it consisted of—a definite revolutionary outbreak. Land was seized by the peasants; many factories and most of the transport were seized by the trade unions; churches were wrecked and the priests driven out or killed. The Daily Mail, amid the cheers of the Catholic clergy, was able to represent Franco as a patriot delivering his country from hordes of fiendish 'Reds'.

And as a side note, the Daily Mail has been terrible for a long, long time.

[-] tibi@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

Also, they successfully occupied most of the countries in western and central Europe. It's only when they tried to expand into Russia that the war started. If they didn't pick a fight with the russians, the Third Reich would have lasted much longer.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I won’t say Finland or Thailand were great powers but Japan had a decent showing so it’s not like they were alone

Though it really only took USSR to beat Germany

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

The USSR was only in the fight thanks to lend lease and even Stalin admitted as much.

[-] 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 8 points 4 hours ago

Bingo. American industry, British intelligence, and Russian Blood won the war in Europe. It was always a combined effort, and anyone claiming one power could have won alone is talking nonsense.

With American supplies, the USSR might have been able to defeat Germany without the Allies sending ground forces into Europe. However, there’s no way the Red Army could have defeated both Germany and Japan alone. The United States was the major force in the Pacific theater.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I think a major part of getting "beat" is they fought the USSR in the east and simultaneously the USA and UK in the west. I mean the war against Stalin wasn't going super smoothy. But it went on since 1941 already. And it really went south for the nazis when the USA joined WW2.

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 16 minutes ago

Things would have gone smoother for them if the British didn't slow them down with Yugoslavia.

Good chance they would have captured Moscow and Stalin.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Outside of industry the US didn’t impact much

The Western Front was going to be won without them due to German troop and supply limitations

The US war effort was the Pacific and preventing the USSR from taking all of Germany (Allies made it in time)

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 hours ago

They won many wars in a row without losing. Then they just overdid it a lil bit at the end and got bonked. They couldve had a huge empire if they just stopped a bit earlier.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 109 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Same with the confederacy:

  • lasted just 4 years
  • lost a war against the USA

Yet their flags are waived around with pride 250+ years later. How perfectly normal

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 9 minutes ago

normie ❌: being anti nazi and anti confederacy because they are evil murderers

based ✅: being anti nazi and anti confederacy because they suck at winning

(sarcasm)

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, certain people can only feel superior to others to cover up for inferiority within themselves.

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 54 points 13 hours ago
[-] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 19 points 13 hours ago

wasn't even the last one standing on the losing side either. Japanese people are better than the master race?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 7 hours ago

There's some Nazi "history" about how the Japanese were some long lost Aryan tribe. Being post-truth is flexible that way.

[-] Sonor@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago

Well, how much hentai did the nazis produce? Smh

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

Also did you know Hitler was a tweaker?

[-] UwUhugger@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

U mean a druggy?

Everyone used to consume inorbitant amounts of hard drugs! Thats the charm of the time!

Or like are you to implying the narrative of nazi generals? That the war would have been won tups if Hitler didn’t meddle? ‘Cause thats also not true! The war rememtos are complete lies meant to convince nato to hire them as advisers, which they would have anyways. If things were to shit the fan with the ussr then they wanted the german militia…

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 0 points 4 hours ago
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