What was Adolf Hitler's greatest mistake? It'd be good to know so we can avoid in in the future.
There's so much we can learn from this wonderful man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cG4fZ3y8vI
Betraying and invading Russia.
>>72595705
That was a master stroke actually. He fucked up when he didn't let his generals off their leash.
>>72595667
Attacking the eastern Europeans.
>>72595893
>Master stroke
>Ruin an alliance so you can fight a war with the largest country in the world that is known for being near-impossible to properly invade
>>72595893
Not really, a two front war is always a bad move. He essentially united his enemies when he did it
>>72595981
>Stalin wasn't planning on invading the West. His huge build-up of forces, particularly bin the West was just for fun.
Okay.
Germany could actually have won had they advanced on Moscow by August. I suggest you study the topic more.
>>72595981
mongols btfo russia multiple times
>>72596190
Yeah, Germany also could have won if they built a working Death Star and just blew up all of Russia.
Which is about as feasible as the idea of them making it to Moscow with no issues.
The war with the USSR was coming whether Hitler wanted it or not.
>>72595705
First post best post
>>72595667
Didn't demand the Danzig corridor during the Munich conference.
>>72596190
This. Though it would've been interesting as fuck to see what the UK/France/USA/international Jews would've done had that happened.
>>72595667
Don't get into a ground war with russia in winter. Same mistake napolian made.
Not gassing all the kikes from the get go.
Wasted way too much time doing the encirclements in Ukraine. South could have taken care of it, Centre never should have taken its eyes off the prize.
>>72595667
He underestimated the Jews. As a decent Aryan he believed that doing the right thing to help his people threatened by poisonous rats would put nature and God on his side and he would prevail.
Jewish evil operates on a completely different level than any other people's on Earth. It's not subject to the usual laws of Nature.
Should of flipped forces
bombed russia with planes and put troops in wester germay/france until summer.
>>72595667
>letting the british army escape to be honourable
>not letting his generals tear russia apart
>using v2 rockets for long distance
>not equiping soldiers with stg44s because infighting
>allying with japan
>no retreat policy
>micromanaging his generals in general (no pun intended)
unfortunately quite a few
he believed he was a better military tactician than he was
still love him though
>>72596433
Nah. He should've abandoned the Madagascar plan and just shipped them to the US instead.
Not invading Moscow immediately and instead rearming in Ukraine.
>>72596623
>he believed he was a better military tactician than he was
Reading Guderian's autobiography at the moment. From the way he tells it, it sounds like most of the high command didn't expect to wreck the shit out of France as much as they did. Basically, this made them get high on victory and made them think they could not only invade, but make the largest country on Earth surrender while having only ~3 months worth of fuel.
He showed himself too merciful, too loving of his people to suspect treachery. In the end, he tried to push back the law of violence as much as he could, and that was mistake.
>>72595667
There is so much to choose from that could have changed the outcome of the war.
- Not attacking at Dunkirk
- Changing the focus from bombing airfields to bombing cities during the Battle of Britain, due to one German bomber making a mistake, which resulted in British retaliation against German civilians.
- Not preparing for a long war.
- Nor providing troops on the eastern front with proper winter gear.
- Rebuilding the entire Eastern European railroad system with a different track size.
- Not declaring total war until 1943, which resulted in endless resources being wasted on commercial goods, rather than war materiel.
- Mistreating the population in Eastern Europe, rather than exploiting their hatred of the Soviet Union and using them as cannon fodder.
- Trying to micromanage the war, rather than relying on his generals, who were some of the greatest in the history of the world.
- Relying too much on heavy tanks and experimental weapons, rather than mass producing the cheap and highly effective weapons he already had at his disposal.
- Making plans based on ideology rather than strategic value.
- Refusing his armies to temporarily retreat, thereby hampering their ability to counter-attack, which was used to great effect by von Manstein when he ignored Hitler's orders.
- Refusing to listen to either Rommel or Rundstedt regarding the defense of Normandy, and choosing a compromise which satisfied neither.
I could go on, but the point is that Hitler was a great politician, but a terrible commander. He made a few good decision during the war, but overall he was the primary reason that Germany was defeated.
>>72595705
Hitler pretty much defeated Russia, even with all the mistakes. American/British support with supplies through Iran gave Russia the ability to through people and resources at Germany, until they finally stopped. If you look up the WW2 death rates per country, and consider that the Russians didn't even have enough weapons in Stalingrad, to the point that they gave one man a rifle and the other a clip of bullets, and had them run at the Germans. Russia certainly wouldn't have held on.
The biggest German mistake in that campaign would have to be bombing Stalingrad instead of Baku and Samara. Without oil Russia wouldn't be able to run their T-34 tanks. Patton even once talked about how he could take Moscow within months, because the Russians were using ox-wagons to transport supplies.
>>72595981
They needed to hit Moscow when they could. They also got unlucky with the war in the pacific since it meant Stalin could move fresh soldiers in from the east
>>72595667
Eugenics.
betting on the morality and intelligence of his british cousins.
>>72595667
Believing he could direct his military better than his generals. He became too much of an egomaniac and began making decisions based on showcasing his power rather than achieving his initial goals for Germany.
>>72595667
>It'd be good to know so we can avoid in in the future.
Uhhh, when he invaded the Netherlands
Should've just let those poor guys do what they do best, be neutral traders making a profit off both sides of the war, haha
right guys
ha ha ha
>>72595667
His management style, too hands on while at the same time pitting his underlings against each other. Maintained power at the cost of achieving of goals.
>>72595705
First post best post.
Also not listening to his generals, while in Russia.
Overall the feeling I get is that he didn't give himself time to consolidate his victories, to cement them. He invaded the most barren stretch of land and spread his forces across it.
I don't understand why he didn't wait.
>>72596623
>no retreat policy
I see this too, especially around the whole fiasco with Guderian. Seriously, they fucked it up badly.
>>72595667
>What was Adolf Hitler's greatest mistake?
Pushing feminist ideals.
>>72595667
>What was Adolf Hitler's greatest mistake?
He thought he knew how to be a military leader when he was actually just a really charismatic guy
>>72595946
>Attacking the eastern Europeans.
This.
he was glorifying the Nordic type (aka feminist Swedes), whereas the real white masterrace are slavs.
Not letting Italy modernize and not letting his generals do the military planning.
>>72595667
Refusing to be flexible and understanding the idea of a 'Greater Germany'. His first mistakes was not separating the Jews with the 'Jews' that were causing problem. That lost him scientists and politicians galore. He should have than built his propaganda on Russia and some force that Europe must unite to defeat. He made too many enemies from conquered nations when he could have 'Germified' them instead of killing them. He could have easily used Poland and most of Eastern Europe to invade and destroy Russia. He wanted a Reich for 1000 years, but was unwilling to wait for Germany to truly evolve from individual nation states. The HRE and Austria slowly showed what could be done with both the Czech Republic and Hungary.
>>72595705
Russia was set on betraying Germany before they even took Poland. I see this answer a lot and it's horrendously stupid, his mistake was attacking Poland at all even if his claims were fairly legitimate. Despite the fact England didn't give a shit about Poland as displayed by how they left them to a fate worse than hell everyone wanted war with Germany because the French and the English are giant warmongers.
>>72600444
>>72600172
TRIPS OF TRUTH!!!
Thanks for posting these.
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>>72600689
>Russia was set on betraying Germany before they even took Poland.
Yeah, people seem to ignore that one of the reasons Hitler was elected in the first place, was because of his hatred of the greatest threat facing Europe; communism.
It's like people are completely oblivious of what happened in eastern Europe during the interwar years, and the genocide and starvation of millions in the Ukraine by the Soviets.
There's a reason Hitler considered the slavs inferior and a threat to western Europe.
>>72595981
I fucking hate this idea so much.
People always blast Germany for invading Russia, but had that literally Zero choice.
After the allies started fucking shit up all over Europe Germany needed oil bad and it was their only choice.
>>72600444
>Literally get slaughtered by the tens of millions at the behest of Jewish revolutionaries
>More of your own people die to your own people for Jewish leadership than to Hitler itself
>Enable a tyrannical political system which irreversibly fucked your country forever
>Master race
His biggest mistake was going on the offensive and attacking other countries.
If you look at history you can whatever you want to your own people provided you not act aggressive to outside forces.
>>72595667
Socialism, conquest, authoritarianism, delusions of grandeur.
>>72600444
>After war only the inferior are left anyway, since the best were killed in action
But he's right. Look at all the cucks in Germany now.
>>72604324
Yeah, he caused it himself. That's what misandry does.
