Why do people think that the Nazi forces were so skilled and

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>>1994390

Cool bait thread.

Mostly because they were more experienced compared to their counterparts, at least when initially meeting them. What they had learned in Spain would help them in France. What they learned in France would help them in Russia and North Africa.

How much of their early success was due to a French army still committed to winning the last war, a horribly confused Russian army attacked mid-reformation, a green American army that undertook no desert warfare training while employing a splintered command structure, or German Übermensch would have been a better question.

And most of the other stupid shit you threw in was just due to attrition creep.

Operational efficiency and business like manner of the German Wehrmacht and ethnic cleansing programs. It ran like a well oiled machine. Gotta respect that

>>1994499
I'm not baiting anything. It's just something people think and it's been shown over and over again to be totally false yet people still perpetuate it.

Yes all Germans had the exact same behavior

>>1994390
Because their uniforms and equipment had a cool and unified aesthetic.
Because stormfags like the idea of superior aryans crushing the slavic hordes.
Because people cling to the myth that the Armed forces were tactically infallible and all the failures were due to civilian/strategic incompetence, this same myth that has been repeated countless times throughout history.

>>1994390
Elite forces are more interesting and 'cooler' than mediocre/inconsistent forces, and therefore get more attention in films, video games and other media which shape modern perceptions.

>>1994499
lol at this assblasted naziboo

>>1994390
They needed to build them up as threat to increase public support and will. Saying Germany is a relatively small country that overextended itself and barely has any chance of making it out of this war is alot less arousing than saying next week the nazi may be in your backyard taking over your country.

>a useless and incompetent force steamrolled through almost all of europe
huh
really activates your almonds

>>1994648
all it shows is how pathetic most of europe is

its an anglo lie to cover up their cowardice on the western front

>these guys geez, they shoot back, cant go faster Ivan

>>1994598
To be fair, they had destroyed what was considered at the time the best army in the world with in certain aspects inferior weapons, all in just 2 or so weeks.

The Germans in WW1 didn't come remotely close to the almost unbelievable gains the Nazis were able to achieve in the early years. All things considered, they earned their reputation, and even later in the war, Allied Forces were very careful not to underestimate them.