Quinton Reviews’s video on the History Channel’s Hitler obsession is excellent, and this 1 and a half minutes does a better job deconstructing the superhuman aura people have built up around the Nazis than most academic papers on the subject.
If the Nazis were so great, powerful, and intellectually superior, they would have won the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
why do we so commonly believe that nazis were superior intellectuals and that their human rights abuses were somehow totally necessary? because our fucking government was riddled with them for decades.
Transcript:
There’s this big misconception in modern culture that the Nazis were bad people, but they were bad people at the cost of being superhuman geniuses. This is reflective of the belief that many people have that cruelty is indicitive of hyper-development. People who believe in this often will state that a lot of our modern udnerstanding of biology stems from experiments done by Nazi scientists on the Jewish people.
This is not true in the slightest. There is not authenticity to that at all, and it’s essentially a white supremacist conspiracy theory. That doesn’t mean that if you believe in it you automatically are a white supremacist, it simply means that you are susceptible to propaganda.
When you actually go back and study all of the things that the Nazis are praised for today, you find not only maliciousness but also stupidity. The Nazis were morons, and this is something people just don’t talk about today. Their ideology of genetic supremacy caused them to be pious, and that led to headstrong tactics that failed them time and time again, because the Third Reich was made up of a bunch of big headed buffoons obssessed with believing in their own worth.
If the Nazis really were geniuses of conflict, if they had technology beyond our wildest understanding, if their skulls swelled constantly to maintain their massively expanding brains, they would have won the fucking war.
Hm, I do remember that the reason why they pursued rocketry instead of nuclear weapons is because Hitler and his ilk considered nuclear physics to be a “Jewish science“ (because EInstein etc were attached to it) and thus not worth pursuing.
Because, and this can’t be emphasised enough, the Nazis were a bunch of morons.
The other thing worth mentioning is that for all the talk about Nazi superweapons/megatanks/battleships is that the deeper you dig into them, the less impressive they become, and eventually sink into you wondering why they even wasted their time building this stupid shit.
The Tiger I and II tanks were gas-guzzlers, expensive to build/maintain, and so complicated to make that very few of them were even made, less than 1,600 Tiger I’s and II’s combined were ever made. The Tiger II in particular was so damn heavy that its engine would fail and catch fire trying to move the fucking thing on a 10′ incline. The armor was so thick that the best welding tools in the world couldn’t get through it all to make a full weld that holds, leading to armor joints so weak that shooting at even its strongest points would crack spall the armor until it broke completely, like so:
The V-2 rockets and ME-262 jet fighters were extremely experimental and untested technology, leading to both being nothing more than glorified first drafts for jets and rockets to come. The 262 was made of weak metals with no heat shielding due to material shortages, meaning that the engine would overheat and tear itself apart after a few hours of flight and require a full replacement to keep flying. And the V-2′s were so hazardous to build and inaccurate at actually hitting their targets that more people died building the V-2 than all the deaths caused by V-2 explosions on Allied cities.
And the Bismarck, for all the fellatio it gets from Wheraboos as some indestructible super-battleship, it really wasn’t all that amazing a ship, and actually much smaller and less armed than the Japanese Yamato class and US South Dakota Class ships, with its size and armaments more closely related to the Italian Vittorio-Veneto class battleships, which were smaller battleships built for fighting in the Mediterranean rather than the open ocean. The Bismarck, and all the money, manpower, and resources that went into making it, sank on its very first mission after being crippled by some WWI-era biplanes.
The Nazis were morons when it came to war production, and the legends of Nazi superweapons only rose after the war by Nazi memoirs and people who ooo’d and awed at these giant steel machines. While during the war, the Tigers and Panthers caused more panic among the German repair crews and quartermasters than they did their enemy.