Comment by terminalshort
6 days ago
Germany was right about that. They were catastrophically wrong about who was the biggest kid on the playground, though.
6 days ago
Germany was right about that. They were catastrophically wrong about who was the biggest kid on the playground, though.
No, at the time they were the biggest kid on the playground, their mistake was to think that the playground would be a constant. If Germany had just taken over Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland they might have gotten away with it too. The lack of consolidation and Hitler being drunk on power caused them to continue to set higher goals.
Then once the theater of the war shifted to Global and Japan brought the USA into the war things changed rapidly.