re: #586 William Barnett-Lewis

The racism did hurt the war effort and probably caused them to collapse even sooner than the would have without it. However in The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze it is argued that the Germans lost the war essentially as soon as they started because they did not have sufficient resources to defeat their enemies. Squandering resources on the killing simply made them lose faster.

I think they might have won a limited war. But Herr Shicklegruber was incapable of restraint. He kept picking fights even when he hadn’t quite won the previous one.

Also, for some odd reason, he never prepared for a full war until 1942. He really thought he could take on Russia with only a partially mobilized economy.

Thank God for that.