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Jump back to quoted post9 Jan 2016, 15:28 PMrobertmikael

The allies had better leadership, because their decisions were made by qualified generals, but for the Germans, Hitler was making the most important decisions. That was a huge advantage for the allies. For example Hitler never allowed strategic/tactical retreats followed up by counterattacks, which were the thing that the Germans were good at.

Jump back to quoted post7 Jan 2016, 16:40 PMAvNY

Maybe. But I think that those "moving variables" have a tendency to move against Hitler more than for him. He had the jump on the world in terms of aggression and doctrine. But in every case the world was adapting to that new environment and perhaps at a faster rate than the Germans.

The Russians were already moving towards total war footing as where the Americans. Hitler on the other hand had a nation to appease. The Germans were supportive and exuberant because he was a WINNER. Don't forget that while the Russians, the Brits and the Americans were industrializing a workforce and mobilizing their women into it as well, working 3 shifts sometimes 7 days a week, the Germans were expecting that this was their time to indulge in the riches lifted from the conquered countries. people were starting to move to plantations in the east that would be worked by slavic minions.

By contrast the British in 1940 were already outproducing German aircraft. They even had an aircraft that was specifically designed to be made by a now underutilized and large industry of smaller furniture factories. This sounds whacky, like the iceberg aircraft carrier designs and the potato throwing naval anti-air weapons (true things, look them up), but in fact it created one of the fastest and most versatile planes of the war, the DeHavilland Mosquito (8,000 built. In furniture shops.)

The Germans wouldn't go on total war footing until 1943.