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You are correct. Parts of the Wehrmacht were mechanized, but the vast majority was foot infantry with horse drawn logistics. Most soldiers walked towards Moscow, and back. World War II German Milita …

No. One of the reasons why Germany had to attack the USSR and as fast as possible was their lack of oil. They were running out of it, fast. America didn't need to ban oil sales to Germany. The British …

Because the costs outweighed the benefits. They could fairly easily block submarines entering the Atlantic by then. It served very nicely as a [by the Allies] attackable port where the German Kriegsma …

I convert my comment into an answer: No, absolutely not. Taunting, as in the movie, would have been a death sentence for the U Boat. The Germans were well aware about High Frequency Direction Finding …

The Germans used U-boats to smuggle Germans and American nationals of German ancestry into the the country for sabotage acts in Operation Pastorius. The operation was a failure. That's probably the or …

That's a definite no. German intelligence about the Soviet Union was abysmal. Not just bad, but abysmal. They estimated the number of Soviet military units wrong by well over 1000%. Not only that, the …

I learned in school the Germans planned to conquer The Netherlands within 24 hrs. They were unpleasantly surprised it took them 5 days to do it. The initial plan was to drop para's on key points, su …

In WW1 Belgium never surrendered. During WW1 Belgian Congo was under threat by German forces in German East Africa, under command of ltn-col Paul von Lettow-Vorbek. It wasn't a big threat, as the Germ …

Everything is relative. Someone can be poor, compared to Bill Gates. And rich, compared with a peasant from Ethiopia. A pocket battleship was not really small. They were capital ships in their own r …

They weren't. At least, not pictures on their own. The media only after other events took their cause (Pearl Harbor attack). The real Holocaust and all its horrible extremities were much of a surpris …

No, not in any way. The Germans saw Japanese as a kind of intelligent monkeys. The Japanese shared that feeling, the other way around. Cooperation was minimal. If at all. Pearl Harbor was just as much …

Hitler did anything to avoid war with America, up to a limit. Effectively, the USA was already at war with Germany. They extended their coastal zone of control to half way the Atlantic ocean. US warsh …

I miss one person on this list: Admiral Canaris. Like the others, he wasn't a defector. But he greatly hindered Germany's war efforts, because of his dislike of Hitler. He was completely trusted by Hi …

The Germans were not capable of using those captured coal mines: Russian tracks are wider than European tracks. The Russians destroyed as much as possible of the tracks and locomotives as possible whe …