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was a colossal waste of resources, troops that were guarding the camps could have been sent to the front, huge amounts of ammunition was wasted executing the unfortunate inmates etc.
on the question of gas warfare (i dont think this has been dealt with yet), germany was the world leader. "a higher form of killing" (jeremy whatshisname from bbc co-wrote it) has a major chapter on german capabilities.if hitler had been mad enough, he could have had the UK in serious trouble, having had major quantities of sarin, tabun etc which the allies only found about after the war.
i think the only way germany could have competed with the industrail resources of teh usa (and, to a lesser extent, the uk), would have been to keep on taking over nations (and their attendant industries) while at the same time having been geared up for "total war" from the beginning. "total war" did not kick in for the german economy until late 1943. the problem with trying to take over as much as possible to keepo their economy going is- what if they were delayed in their timetable for taking various places over?that probably would have screwed them up badly.
my 2c for now
was a colossal waste of resources, troops that were guarding the camps could have been sent to the front, huge amounts of ammunition was wasted executing the unfortunate inmates etc.
on the question of gas warfare (i dont think this has been dealt with yet), germany was the world leader. "a higher form of killing" (jeremy whatshisname from bbc co-wrote it) has a major chapter on german capabilities.if hitler had been mad enough, he could have had the UK in serious trouble, having had major quantities of sarin, tabun etc which the allies only found about after the war.
i think the only way germany could have competed with the industrail resources of teh usa (and, to a lesser extent, the uk), would have been to keep on taking over nations (and their attendant industries) while at the same time having been geared up for "total war" from the beginning. "total war" did not kick in for the german economy until late 1943. the problem with trying to take over as much as possible to keepo their economy going is- what if they were delayed in their timetable for taking various places over?that probably would have screwed them up badly.
my 2c for now
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