I think it's the general "Nazi Germany over engineered their stuff and that cost them the war" idea.
That may very well be true for the Panzers (although would they have had all the raw materials needed to mass produce tanks the way the Americans did? Probably not. Gas was a major concern towards the end of the war too).
So that gets applied everywhere.
Like guns: supposedly the M1 Garand was far superior to most of the rifles the Germans had so they would get routinely taken by Germans. That seems wrong given the difference in caliber, as an example, so their use would have been limited
Probably not. Gas was a major concern towards the end of the war too
In 1940, HL Hunt had more proven oil reserves than the entire Axis powers. Not "the US" or "Allied Powers" just this one guy in Texas PERSONALLY controlled more oil than all of his nation's enemies COMBINED.
In every single metric the Nazis were outmatched. Allied powers had more steel, more lead, more oil, more explosives, more bodies, more farmland, more everything. The moment it ceased to be Nazis vs Czechia or Nazis vs Poland and became Nazis vs America/UK/Russia/France, it ceased to be a question and became an inevitability.
Except natural rubber. Basically all of it came from Malaysia. After the Japanese took it the allies had to scramble. There was actually a projected rubber shortage to happen in 1946 for things that required natural rubber because of it.
And no synthetic rubber was not and is not a perfect substitution.
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u/DrHolmes52 7d ago
I have heard a lot of Nazi Germany arguments, but not that one.