Was Germany more powerful than the US or USSR?

Answer 1

Germany has always had a history of militarism. The Prussian spirit from as old as the Teutonic Knights of the crusades was alive and well in Germany. Order, disipline, and sacrifice were German virtues, and tailor-made to generate dedicated soldiers. If you grade fanatacism as power, Germany got an A. At the beginning of WW2 the Russian army was weakened by paranoid Stalin's purge of the army officer corps and outdated equipment. Their ace in the hole was the deep well of manpower they could draw from. America was isolationist with a small army and no real will to get into another European war. At the beginning of the war Germany rolled over everybody because their tactics were superior. Nobody had used tanks and airplane in close support of infantry before and it was very effective in knocking out Poland,France, and early on Russia itself. Germany had power, but as they expanded they did not have enough to hold the vast territories they held. They relied on fear and murder to do this. As Hitler squandered his armies in Russia,America began to surge in war production. More planes bombed Germany, more well equipped Russian troups advanced and drove the Hun back. Hitler gave it one last go at the Battle of the Bulge but literally ran out of gas. On to Berlin was the cry of the Russians and the Americans. They squeezed German like a grape and in May 1945 the Bohemian corporal Hitler put a bullet in his befuddled brain. He had threated suicide througout his meglomanic life. If he had only done it 20 yrs. before!