Through learning about World War 2 I had many ideas about what could have made Hitlers quest for world domination better and more successful. I am not supporting Nazis or anything they did, however there are some very obvious mistakes that Hitler made that I think could have been handled differently.
Hitler first went against rulers that had been created after World War 1 and did nothing to hide what he was doing. You would think that he would attempt to hide the bad things he was doing in hope that he would not be caught, but he had no problem with other countries knowing. This first problem caused other countries to not trust Germany once again, and this lead to the second strategic failure.
If Hitler would have been agreeable and attempted to go under the radar while building up his army, he might have been able to make real allies. If Hitler would have had allies this would have given him the ability to spread war over Europe and weaken his opponents while he prepared his army further. Through doing this Hitler would have been able to then sneak his forces in to steal the land his allies had taken for him in a wonderfully executed and secret attack. The reason I think these strategies would have helped Hitler win is because they would have solved the problems he actually faced in the war.
Hitler really had no willing allies at any point in the war because he had gone against the rules and just invaded Poland for no apparent reason. As he continued to spread across Europe he had no one else helping him except for either those who surrendered for the good of their country, or Russia for the time they stayed allies with Hitler. Realizing the fact that really no one was helping him substantially, this then makes the fact that he decided to turn on his ally and then invade their huge country seem quite stupid. Personally I think that if Hitler had remained allied with various countries and taken over Europe all together, he could have spread forces out, and then surprised his allies by pulling a massive surprise attack. I would have to say that if Hitler succeeded as much as he did in World War 2 that he could do that again, but clearly modified.
Overall Hitler made some detrimental mistakes that cost him the war, and ended his quest of domination.
This kind of goes back to that game we played in class where we were all countries who had different sources of power. We all made alliances but in the end a lot of us turned on each other and declared war on those we had made peace with a minute before. We saw this a lot in World War II because no one trusted anybody, especially Hitler. Also, doing what no body expected was a large part of why he was able to gain so much land in such a short amount of time. Everyone was so shocked about the Blitzkrieg they barely had time to react and fight back before the Germans invaded and conquered. Later, when the allies became more familiar with the German fighting strategy they were able to find flaws in it and take down Hitler. In short, it worked at the beginning because no one saw it coming, but eventually the allies learned and adapted to their fighting, which brought an end to World War II.
ReplyDeleteHitler was too independent which caused him to lose power. With his mindset, and his independence while the three other biggest military forces came together= Hitler losing power. Hitler had created his own power struggle.
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