How come Nazi Germany was so strong that it took the USA, Russia, England and others to eventually subdue it?

Italy was just a drag, I'd say they would have been better off without them. Japan was strong but it was on a whole different theatre, although it did consume considerable US military resources.





How come Germany, a country whose population wasn't in the same scale as the US, Russia and England's combined; That was simultaneously busy conducting the largest genocide operation in history; Who gave up on the potential power that Jews and other minority populations could have formed within the army ranks; Who only several years before had suffered dire political and economical crisis - how come this country made such substantial military achievements and nearly subdued the entire allied forces??
How come Nazi Germany was so strong that it took the USA, Russia, England and others to eventually subdue it?
Because they took control of other countries and their resources b4 other countries got involved.
How come Nazi Germany was so strong that it took the USA, Russia, England and others to eventually subdue it?
Fairly simple... The country had been in a recession. Hitler provided jobs to everyone -- making tanks, aircraft, weapons, munitions... They thought it was great, he brought prosperity -- for a time. The entire country became a war machine... much as the U.S. did when we realized we would be in the war eventually... turned car factories into tank and airplane factories... But Hitler had a head start, a country that hadn't stopped producing weapons after WW1 and then increased military production by about 10,000% per year when he was "elected"... Scary to think how many mid-size countries could do virtually the same thing if it wasn't for the nuclear threat today, isn't it?
Reply:The key to Germany's strength was the Ruhr valley.





Also the fact that Germany moved with such speed it was able to overthrow the enemy with tactics such as blitzkrieg. Some countries fell in the space of one or two weeks .





Also Germany came alive under Hitler, like it or not , he galvanized a bitter divided country and gave them a goal and a purpose to rise up after the lose of the first world war.





He built the autobahns and relieved unemployment and inflation that had crippled Germany.





He did come very close to winning the war on 2 occasions. When he sent the British back to england via Dunkirk and at the battle of the Ardene when he launched a counter offensive against the Americans at Bastogne and the Bulge.





The failure of Hitlers army was that they had too many theaters of war and were running out of resources , particulaly oil.
Reply:hi, i think that we should consider the theory which is behind it,the theroies and the ideas are very important before putting our effort in action.the nazies have strong and very positive think which lead them to success.having storng eyesight and positive mental energy mainly cause successfullness.be lucky.
Reply:The 30's was a building period for Nazi Germany. They grew a strong ecomomy, built their army and the Luftwafa, and even tested their might in the Spanish Civil War where their forces killed the Leftist side. So they almost had 10 years to build their strenght while the rest of the world was trying to struggle through the depression and follow the philosophy of ignroance is bliss. Then Chamberlin appeased to the Nazis and let them take Czechoslavakia, so then by the time the war started when Germany invaded Poland, Germany already had a huge landmass and streangth, even though they were persicuting many of their own people. I think though if the Germans had not back-stabbed the Russians in their non-aggression pact, that Germany may have been able to beat England eventually.





But actually, I don't think Germany in reality ever "nearly subdued the entire allied forces." True, before Russia entered the war England was almost defeated in the Battle of Britain, but that was the only time any of the allied forces really came close to defeat. I guess on the Eastern Front things seemed a little dire for a while, but in reality the Germans had no chance against the Russians.





How come though they were able to do this? I would say that the fact that Europe was caught off guard by the Nazis allowed them to make so much advances so quickly, but when the advances stoped it was only a matter of time before the world killed the third richt.
Reply:The leadership of Adolph Hitler.





He could have done far better, especially later in the war, but Hitler brought economic reform to Germany and began rearming her, turning the entir German economy to war production by 1939.. He was helped greatly when the Anschluss occurred and when Sudeten was annexed, providing him with even more industry, which speeded the rearming process.





Now, to be fair, the UK, France, US, and Russia did not prepare for the war as much as Germany did. Their economies weren't as ready as Germany's was, early on. That, combined with great luck in military successes in 1939 and 1940, made Germany into a seemingly unstoppable foe.





They nearly subdued Russia and the UK (not the entire Allied forces, as you say, but that's an entirely different subject) because they prepared.
Reply:Germany was building up it's military might for many years before the outbreak of war, and invaded bordering countries with almost no warning. Russian leader, Stalin, signed a non-aggression treaty with Hitler, so did not enter the war until Hitler invaded Russia. The United States had an isolationist policy, so also did not enter the war initially, until German U-boats sunk a few US merchant ships. So it was basically left to Britain and Commonwealth countries, with limited military men and materials, to try to stop Hitler until the US and Russia were forced to join as allies, by which time germany had a powerful stranglehold on most of Europe
Reply:The Germans are sneaky, and practice beforehand. Same with the football. It ruins the game.
Reply:the reasons are the sturctural advantages of a strong unitary state in central europe. germany will always have the capability to dominate europe if it so wishes, it has a large population and significant indistrial capacity, as well as geostrategic advantages, allowing easy expansion.


germany was surrounded by quite a few relatively weak states which it could dominate with little effort. she managed to buck the historical trend of nations becoming weaker when they occupy others, allowing germany at the height of its power to become incredibly dangerous.


the reality is though, germany did not really come that close to winning the war. the soviet union was always likely to come out on top in the long run, and as britain was able to remain in the war and effective, the usa could defeat germany. ok so maybe if germany had won the battles of britain and the atlantic, and through whatever means knocked britain out of the war, it is still highly debateable whether they would have been able to defeat the red army in the long term.
Reply:the United States won World War 1 not Europe.


If the US hadnt entered the war when it finally did, france and britian were down to 1 month left. It was that close.





After the war, a lot of countries got rid of their weapons and their huge armies that had fought the war.





The US went back into exilement, geting rid of what it had sent to europe.





Germany in the 30's took the chance to build the most advanced technological army on earth. No other country had the army Germany did at the start of World war 2.





Thats why they were so good. No one was really ready for them.
Reply:The Germans had several advantages at the start of the war...





1) New tactics and an understanding of armored warfare. Where the French and Poles were preparing to refight World War I, Germany prepared to fight a modern war. Armored/infantry tactics today remain very similar to the ones the Germans pioneered in the 1930s.





2) A willingness to invest in the military. Stunned by the horrors of World War I, the British neglected their military in the 1920s and 30s. After World War I, the United States returned to its historic policy of isolationism and also neglected its military. Although the U.S. and Britain had strategists who came to the same conclusion as German strategists, military neglect meant those militaries were not ready at the start of the war, a mistake the two nations came to rue.





3) The German General Staff from inception in Prussia to the start of World War II was the eptimone of military organization. It was simply the best organized army in the world at the start of the war.





4) The German soldier was well trained. This goes back to investment. Hitler was willing to invest in his military and that meant that the German soldier was ready for war.





5) Stalin's purges in the 1930s almost destroyed the Soviet officer corps. Tens of thousands of Soviet military officers disappeared to Siberia when they ran afoul of Stalin or his machine. Stalin did more to lose World War II to the Germans than any German general. Only the vastness of the country, which allowed the bitter Russian winter followed by the wet Russian spring to kick in, saved the Soviet Union. Simpy put, the Germans were not able to move forward fast enough to conquer Russia, which gave the Soviets a chance to rebuild their armies. Still, it took a treaty with Japan, which allowed the Soviets to move their armies off the Manchurian border, to gain the upper hand against Germany.





6) By the time the United States got in the war, the Germans had captured France. Even if the US had been able to quickly raise and train an Army, which we did, the only bases we had were in England, which is separated by the English channel. Before we could force a crossing, new large-scale amphibious tactics had to be developed and an army built up. That took time.