• glorkon@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    As a German citizen born in Berlin to parents who were both babies in 1945, I would like to say:

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    If they were still fighting then that would mean Steiner had done his counter attack. Obviously this would mean Germany’s super secret stealth jet technology was also in use and as such no allied bomber could fly over Germany any more. And if any managed to get within sight of Berlin it would just be shot down by their 180 ton tanks that are capable of anything!

    (Obligatory giant /s because people really believe this shit)

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      1 month ago

      Quick question. Would shooting down a plane carrying a nuke cause the nuke to go off?

      Sounds like one hell of a kamikaze run

      • JayObey711@lemmy.world
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        No, the detonator of an atomic bomb is a little bomb itself. The energy required to to detonate is much greater than anyplaincrash could cause. I find it amusing (relatively, we are still talking about weapons of mass destruction) that a thermonuclear bomb need a regular atomic bomb to trigger, wich needs a regular bomb to detonate. So we are just stacking bombs on bombs on bombs to make them stronger.

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        Nukes are difficult enough to detonate intentionally, so no, it probably won’t happen. I mean it probably will detonate, but it’ll just be the conventional explosives in it. The fissile material that was supposed to explode will instead get thrown all over the place.

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    1 month ago

    They could have won if they utilized their resources properly for their supply lines, accepted research and compensated for research from everyone, didn’t waste resources genociding millions of people, promoted leaders on proper merit and not suckering up to Hitler, making Hitler not be the guy that makes the military decisions, and spent a little more money on espionage.

    So like basically if they negated all the downsides of running a fascist ethnostate lol.

    I’m pretty sure Hitler explicitly threw out research done by Jews which is why their nuclear research ended up being basically non existent and nowhere near what the USA had originally feared.

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      If they weren’t a fascist ethnostate led by a madman, they probably wouldn’t have launched the war in the first place. The utterly misguided belief in their superiority is what made them blind to the (rather obvious) conclusion that they didn’t have the resources to conquer Europe (mostly) single-handedly. Let alone take Italy along with them.

      Hell, the only reason it was even - somewhat - close at points was Hitler’s insistence on a blitz through the Ardennes to attack France. The generals thought it was a terrible plan (and it was, that’s a big reason why the French were unprepared and got essentially knocked out of the war in weeks).

      WW2 is interesting precisely because the big numbers only point one way - a complete defeat of Germany and Japan by much larger and better-supplied powers. But there were multiple points where tactical developments could have become strategic victories - which are rather rare occurrences in the study of war.

      E.g. the Nazis didn’t have the resources to conquer the Soviet Union, but if the battles of Stalingrad and Moscow had gone their way, it is difficult to see how the USSR could have maintained a functioning government. Likewise Japan was woefully under prepared to defeat the US in the Pacific, but if the US carriers had been sunk at Pearl Harbor, maybe the Japanese hedgehog strategy to fortify the Pacific islands works out.

      Of course, once the bomb was ready then nothing else matters.

      Ultimately, it was all massive tragedy the likes of which I hope we never see again. The counterfactuals are fun to play out, if you can abstract away the millions of deaths in all sides.

  • JayObey711@lemmy.world
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    Thank gooood, I wouldnt be here. My family lived in a prime atom bomb target area. I moved far away about a year ago. I was relieved thinking that if the next war start I’m as safe as you can be in Europe. Mfw I find out there are dozens of US military bases nearby 🤠