Yes, they were beaten by a group of different people who let anyone join.
Nazis were literally defeated by diversity and inclusivity.
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thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Well, not to defend the nazis or anything, but they did manage to make considerable amounts of damage and it took multiple great powers working together to beat them back.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
I won’t say Finland or Thailand were great powers but Japan had a decent showing
Though it really only took USSR to beat Germany
Cypher@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The USSR was only in the fight thanks to lend lease and even Stalin admitted as much.
1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 5 hours ago
Bingo. American industry, British intelligence, and Russian Blood won the war in Europe. It was always a combined effort, and anyone claiming one power could have won alone is talking nonsense.
With American supplies, the USSR might have been able to defeat Germany without the Allies sending ground forces into Europe. However, there’s no way the Red Army could have defeated both Germany and Japan alone. The United States was the major force in the Pacific theater.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 10 hours ago
I think a major part of getting "beat" is they fought the USSR in the east and simultaneously the USA and UK in the west. I mean the war against Stalin wasn't going great. But it went on since 1941 already. And it really went south for the nazis when the USA joined WW2.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
Things would have gone smoother for them if the British didn’t slow them down with Yugoslavia.
Good chance they would have captured Moscow and Stalin.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Outside of industry the US didn’t impact much
The Western Front was going to be won without them due to supply limitations
The US war effort was the Pacific and preventing the USSR from taking all of Germany
tibi@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Also, they successfully occupied most of the countries in western and central Europe. It’s only when they tried to expand into Russia that the war started. If they didn’t pick a fight with the russians, the Third Reich would have lasted much longer.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
They won many wars in a row without losing. Then they just overdid it a lil bit at the end and got bonked. They couldve had a huge empire if they just stopped a bit earlier.
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That’s how Fascists work though. They pick fights with bigger and bigger opponents – because they’re invulnerable, you see – until they lose. Their economy was absolutely insane, and required flat out pillaging their neighbours. Eventually your neighbours are too big to pillage.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Isn’t that not just an imperialistic trait, not necessarily a fascistic one? Franco’s Spain didn’t collapse, while it was still very much fascistic.
All the while, this trait is very much applicable to the Roman, Ottoman, Soviet or US empires.
frezik@midwest.social 8 hours ago
Historians debate just how fascist Franco was. Hell, Orwell wasn’t even quite sure, and he was quite open about the fact that he went to Spain to kill a fascist.