has to admired for contiuing the fight long after the war was long past turning round for them(d-day).

Agreed.
they were a good military force, even though many people hate them for their views.l

there leader hitler was there militiry down fall!

operation barborossa went well but the germans should have been prepared for the cold weather that was a mistake.

The Nazi Germany army was a very well trained and very technological army for the times. They also had some very brilliant minds working their tactical department, but not too brilliant to try and handle a two-front war (technically three, if you seperate Italy, France, and Russia).

All good points here, attacking Russia was never a good idea, the plan to invade Britain was the correct choice.

hitler screwed the german war machine the jets would have been ready by 1942 also if he hadnt insited on taking stalingrad he could have sent trops to encircel the city but he sent south to the oil feilds instead.

if the germans had a better airforce, they would have been able to retaliate against the british better.. they really took a beating from german bombers.. this isn't particularly my view but i have read it heaps.

The Russian Air Force out numbered the Luftwaffe by thousands after Stalingrad. The Luftwaffe was the jewel of Nazi Germany along with the Waffen SS's tank formations.

The Germans had some brilliant commanders working for them, the most brilliant one in my opinion being Erwin Rommel, who was not the least bit anti-Semetic. If hitler had not been such a fanatical idiot, the war might have turned out more favorably for them. But NO, they HAD to let the crackhead take charge of everything.

-Captain Dan

Rommel was a genius.

Though, the Australian infantry out smarted him. You have to give Australia credit for that.

although they were being led by the british generals

The germans also lost becuase they're funding was going down the tubes.

A lot of companies assetts were siezed under "trading with the enemy act" becuase they directly contributed to nazi germany. (cough,Brown Brothers Harriman, prescott bush, cough).

Once the US got involved, a lot of people stopped funding them.

has to admired for contiuing the fight long after the war was long past turning round for them(d-day).

i am glad you think this way.

i admire your troops for countinuing to fifht long after it was lost i dont admire the naiz regime

All good points here, attacking Russia was never a good idea, the plan to invade Britain was the correct choice.

If Germany hadn't invaded the USSR, the USSR would've soon invaded Germany. They were stalling to amass enough resources for the attack to be successful, so Hitler didn't really have a choice.

Hitler should have claimed and secured the Russian oil fields before being concerned with a large scale push through Russia.

Yeah they had a good fighting force. i didn't like the holocaust. killing jews like that. my school had went to a holocaust museum and it was so sad.

Does anyone really like the holocaust?

The German military in WW2 wasn't powerful because of manpower or technology; it was powerful because of doctrines like Blitzkrieg and Kampfgruppen and military geniuses like Erich von Manstein; Heinz Guderian and Erwin Rommel.

ok hitler was their downfall because he was not patient enough if he had taken his advances slower it would have taken longer for everyone else to catch on.

By 1944, Hitler was living in a dream world. In preparing to stop Operation Over Lord, he spread his panzers all across the northern and western coasts of France. By keeping his tanks in one concentrated place, he could have mounted quicker and more effective counterattacks at Normandy and possibly stopped the Allies, who were totally unprepared for hedgerow fighting.

Although he spread his panzers out he still kept them in large groups unlike the allies who divided them evenly throughout divisions. Hitler was by far NOT the downfall, he was a GREAT leader with a bad cuase, but he united the WHOLE country. Such a small country taking on so many others. He would of lost eventually if he hadnt of made those mistakes...

I love reading the history of the wehrmacht and third riech. Erich Von Manstein was one of the best generals of all time (and the best of the war!). The Germans wrote the book on how to fight armoured warfare! My family came here from Germany about 400 years ago. I would put the wehrmacht over any other military at the time.

Hitler truely screwed the whole thing up though...

Most of the ordinary German soldiers only beleived they were fighting for Germany, such was the extent of Hitler's Propoganda. Only people from the SS fully knew, appreciated and supported Nazist views.

It wasn't just the military which made the army strong, it was the propoganda pummeled into their brains by movies, posters, speeches, Hitler and his Nazi party were extremely effective in that area.