How much of an impact did Hitlers drive to build wonder weapons have on the loss of Germany in WW2?
Could his scientists have produced significantly better armaments if they weren't wasting time and money on things like the Maus or Ratte?
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>How much of an impact did Hitlers drive to build wonder weapons have on the loss of Germany in WW2?
Very little because Albert Speer was smart enough to cancel most of his bullshit.
They actually invented many usefull wonder-waffe like jets, ballistic rockets, medium calibre rifle, type XXI. They were also on the right track with helicopters.
Thing is it is not so easy to judge which ones have potential.
Little to none.
>Very little because Albert Speer was smart enough to cancel most of his bullshit.
congrats on the dumbest post of Veeky Forums today. Threadly reminder that it was Speer who pushed for the V-rockets program that killed more people working on it than enemies.
>Threadly reminder that it was Speer who pushed for the V-rockets program that killed more people working on it than enemies.
I thought that was Hitler.
Germany was ahead with notable technology like jet aircraft and guided anti ship missiles so they were making progress. They couldn't predict how useful a technology would be, but they saw the end coming and knew that there is a small chance a new innovation might turn the tide of the war whereas using the resources for conventional war industry was unlikely to have much impact.
The only weapon that could have saved them was the Atomic Bomb.
And they would have had it, too, if Albert Einstein hadn't been forced to leave Germany because of anti-jewish discrimination.
>V-rockets program that killed more people working on it than enemies
Not true. V-rockets had a pretty decent kill rate and usually landed directly on target. It was British triple-agents that faked memos saying that the rockets were widely off target that the Germans thought it was a waste and cut down on it.
>Threadly reminder that it was Speer who pushed for the V-rockets program that killed more people working on it than enemies.
but they were mostly slave workers, so they didnt count
>V-rockets had a pretty decent kill rate and usually landed directly on target
You are completely wrong but that's ok. This is only Veeky Forums it's not like there's consequences for saying retarded shit.
Einstein had literally nothing to do with the atom bomb.
>E = MC^2 had literally nothing to do with the atomic bomb
And not only that, he wouldn't help the nazis build it.
He wrote a letter convincing the president to build it, but yeah, he has NOTHING to do with it at all.
>The one thing stopping Hitler from building the bomb was a letter from a jew asking him to
GToR was already published and known around the world.
Oh wow a letter. I guess it's a good thing he didn't write a letter to Hitler or Germany would've had the bomb.
This."V weapons killed more people making them than they killed by exploding" doesnt mean that they kerploded on the launchpad and the shrapnel took out 100 people standing around. It means 100 people were starved, beaten or died of diseases whilst working in the factories that produced the parts.
The letter was the only reason the Allies knew of the german project for the A-bomb. The letter indirectly led to the planning and execution of multiple sabotages of the German atomic program which was trying to build one using heavy water.
>He wrote a letter convincing the president to build it
>after the project had secretly begun
FTFY
it was still a waste, 'on target' for a V2 meant within 5 miles of the 1 radius circle we were aiming at, sure the british moved the aimpoint a bit to reduce casualties but its target was originally central london.
as a method of explosives delivery it was vastly less effective than a lancaster bomber (more explosives per trip, and more trips per plane with greater accuracy)
that letters importance is somewhat overstated, it said it was possible and that the us should consider it, but the US had known it was possible since the tizard mission showed them it was possible and had been considering it since then, being further spurred on by the MAUD report which concluded that a bomb was definitely feasible and described the basic processes to construct one including cost estimates, the TIzard mission and MAUD report played a far larger role in spurring on the manhattan project than einsteins letter
Yeah, but we wouldn't have beat the commies without V2s.
>Yeah, but we wouldn't have beat the commies without V2s
Not sure if bait