| Mummelmann said: Americans believe America saved Europe, Europeans know that Russia, U.K and the massive amounts of partisans sabotaging German railroads and logistics freight won the war... The U.S didn't even bother to join the fight until their economic interests were endangered, and many American companies made bundles selling gear to the nazi's before and during the first half of the war, not to mention the scientists who had helped Hitler advance his tech that ended up working for the U.S after the war... America got involved in '43, at which point we had been fighting for our lives for 4 years, and Norway among others was completely overrun. On total, the U.S lost about 200.000 lives in the war, which kinda pales to; 20.000.000 russians and 20.000.000 Chinese... |
That post is as ignorant as the few Americans who claim that they were the sole reason WWII was won.
Americans did make a few dollars here and there supplying to the Nazis, but they made more by supplying their artilery, tanks, and planes to Great Britain. As a matter of fact, Churchill's constant begging and pleading to FDR to join the war is what probably made the U.S. to cease exportation to Nazi Germany (That, and U.S. citizens hated the Nazis).
The U.S. did not join the war due to economic instability, but because the Japanese attacked the U.S. You don't even mention Pearl Harbor in your post.
The U.S. joined the war officially the next day, December 08, 1941. You mean to tell me the U.S. sat on their asses doing nothing for 2 years? Even before the attack, you failed to mention how a few U.S. soldiers volunteered to aid Britain when it was under attack, and you failed to mention how the Commanding General for Allied troops in Europe was an American.
One thing in peculiar that is quite ironic is that Britain and France made a pact with Poland to help fight off the Germans if they invaded. Well the Germans did invade, but where were the Brits and French? Here's the ironic part, Polish aviators made up the huge concentration of foreigners who aided Britain, and people still argue that their effort shifted the tide in Britain. There were other who aided Britain as well, such as Canadians, the French, and yes, even Americans.
As for the Soviets, why was it that half of the Soviet soldiers carried ammunition and the other half only had rifles when they were defending Stalingrad? Maybe after they started pushing the Nazis back West were they able to better mass-produce artilery, but most certainly they didn't have sufficient war material.
What made the Nazis face defeat? Simple. A war on two fronts. Hitler thought Britain and the Soviet Union were hanging on by a wire, which they most certainly did, but he thought that was enough to win the war, which would ultimately prove to be wrong.
