I think that the role of Czechoslovakia in the pre-war ear is too overlooked. I see so many people who don’t even know about annexation of Czechoslovakia and the huge impact it had basically applaud Germany for something they mostly stole.
Czechoslovakia had 3rd biggest army in Europe and was one of the biggest weapon manufacturers and all this was given to Germany in the name of peace, the allies pointed a loaded gun at themselfs. Look at any footage of invasion of France and good portion of German tanks weren’t made in Germany. Germany esentialy doubled their army with help of the allies.
This shouln’t be forgoten because it is the best example of appeasement.
Slow_Fish2601 on
The Munich agreement was the biggest sellout in years. Czechoslovakia was handed over to Nazi Germany and it did change nothing.
BaritBrit on
Also, “pulling an economic miracle” is a hell of a lot easier if you don’t have the competence or capabilities to think long-term, and just funnel absolutely everything into short-term “build/make infrastructure and military stuff”.
The moment Nazi Germany stopped ‘finding’ entire countries’ worth of loot and enslaved people to feed into the machine, their economy would have fallen over almost immediately.
Worth_Package8563 on
WW2 was in general scripted i think, it wouldn’t surprise me if our timeline is the only one Hitler successed.
haleloop963 on
Germany also used “dirty” tactics like exploiting flaws in the market. Also Nazi germany based their economy around looting and taking factories and such of conquered nations. The German economy in itself was a paper tiger and only lived out of looting
LauMei27 on
I’ve seen this format 5 times now in less than two days. Can we stop? It’s not even a meme anymore at this point, just a block of text. If you only want to express your opinion visit r/ww2 or something.
Upvoter_the_III on
half of the early tanks were Czechoslovak made/ made in occupied Czechoslovakia
MasterOfSubrogation on
Time to look up “MEFO bills”. Without constant war Germany would have been bankrupt within a decade.
Also, the Germany economy and industrial production was nothing compared what the US churned out. Even taking population size difference into account, Germany was outmatched so badly by the US that you can even speak of them as being in the same league.
Idontknowofname on
The only thing Nazis were good at was stealing
forwhenthefunny1984 on
Yeah, we were an emerging superpower, according to some the seventh powerful or welthiest, or something country at the time, and when the allies sold us out, they basically handed all of that to the nazis on a silver platter
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I think that the role of Czechoslovakia in the pre-war ear is too overlooked. I see so many people who don’t even know about annexation of Czechoslovakia and the huge impact it had basically applaud Germany for something they mostly stole.
Czechoslovakia had 3rd biggest army in Europe and was one of the biggest weapon manufacturers and all this was given to Germany in the name of peace, the allies pointed a loaded gun at themselfs. Look at any footage of invasion of France and good portion of German tanks weren’t made in Germany. Germany esentialy doubled their army with help of the allies.
This shouln’t be forgoten because it is the best example of appeasement.
The Munich agreement was the biggest sellout in years. Czechoslovakia was handed over to Nazi Germany and it did change nothing.
Also, “pulling an economic miracle” is a hell of a lot easier if you don’t have the competence or capabilities to think long-term, and just funnel absolutely everything into short-term “build/make infrastructure and military stuff”.
The moment Nazi Germany stopped ‘finding’ entire countries’ worth of loot and enslaved people to feed into the machine, their economy would have fallen over almost immediately.
WW2 was in general scripted i think, it wouldn’t surprise me if our timeline is the only one Hitler successed.
Germany also used “dirty” tactics like exploiting flaws in the market. Also Nazi germany based their economy around looting and taking factories and such of conquered nations. The German economy in itself was a paper tiger and only lived out of looting
I’ve seen this format 5 times now in less than two days. Can we stop? It’s not even a meme anymore at this point, just a block of text. If you only want to express your opinion visit r/ww2 or something.
half of the early tanks were Czechoslovak made/ made in occupied Czechoslovakia
Time to look up “MEFO bills”. Without constant war Germany would have been bankrupt within a decade.
Also, the Germany economy and industrial production was nothing compared what the US churned out. Even taking population size difference into account, Germany was outmatched so badly by the US that you can even speak of them as being in the same league.
The only thing Nazis were good at was stealing
Yeah, we were an emerging superpower, according to some the seventh powerful or welthiest, or something country at the time, and when the allies sold us out, they basically handed all of that to the nazis on a silver platter
The secret ingredient is crime.