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Das Versagen von der Fuehrer
(The Failure of the Fuehrer) |
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John F Medio |
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much stronger today.
Hitler stunned the world in 1939 by invading Poland with such obvious intent as to start a war. It was followed closely by other sudden invasions by Hitler across Europe; "Wehrmacht–which between September 1939 and June 1941 had knocked over like tenpins the far from negligible armies of Poland, France, and Yugoslavia, had driven three-hundred-odd thousand British from the continent in a campaign of a few brief weeks, and had spread the rule of Hitler’s Reich from Brest to Crete and from Arctic Narvik to the desert sands of Tripoli" (Anders v). 1941 saw the end of the battle for Britain and a switch in Hitler’s focus toward Russia and Africa; it was also the year that America entered the war. The war in Africa and Russia progressed slowly, and the war in Europe all but ceased. It began again on June 6, 1944, D-Day, and lasted until the Battle of the Bulge and Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945.
Many views have surfaced as to why the Allies won the war. Most of which originated among the Allies and therefore make no mention of the fact that Hitler gave it to them. One often held view states that increased nationalism, and therefore production, at home (America) led to an army that Hitler simply could not handle. While that is not completely wrong, it does
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