I recognize that German tanks were expensive and included too many features to be reliable; but this can’t be the only reason.
I recognize that German tanks were expensive and included too many features to be reliable; but this can’t be the only reason.
Probably. At the very end of the war, right around the time Hitler killed himself and organisation broke down, SS leaders started fleeing occupied countries but told their troops to remain there. For maximum fascist fuckery, they even ordered them to carry on with the executions in the camps. Generals knew too, but they didn’t abandon their posts that I know of.
But the way fascism worked in Germany (and in most instances of fascism) was that they required war to keep money coming in. It’s not unlike slave economies of the past in this regard. Germany especially inherited an absolutely destroyed economy and the plans they had like the MEFO bills were gonna collapse eventually. They turned their whole industry to war production before even invading Poland as this was a solution they found to “fix” the economy. Of course it also made lots of money for the German bourgeoisie.
Fascism is a death cult because down the line it will always lead to war.