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For all the evil he did, one thing he would not allow is the use of chemical weapons against his enemies. I have heard it was due to his personal experience with it in WWI. My question is, had he freely used them do you think it would have helped the Nazis much in the long run? Could D-Day still be pulled off had they used them freely on the advancing allies? What if he had used them against the Russians?
hitler's bet was super weapons were the key to dominance. i think he was correct but being crazy did not help his timing much.
his mistakes in timing and judgement were enormous. refusal to use chemical is just another crazy man decision no logic to it. trying to protect himself by killing off 5000 of germanys best officers including romell was not too swift either.
how the german army did as well as they did is a negative miracle. the germans are a gifted people cursed with insane leadership.
We did this topic not that long ago. The reason that chemical weapons were not widely used in WW II was that there was no advantage to be gained. If one side employed them, the other would retaliate and then both sides would have to fight wearing clumsy protective gear. No advantage, added inconvenience, no point at all to using them.
If one side had possessed chemical weapons while the other did not, I'm confident that they would have been deployed.
You are assuming that the allies didn't have chemical weapons ready to use to, for instance, chemical bomb the D-day landing beaches? The allies did have these weapons, and they would have been used if the axis used them.
If he had used chemicals, Nagasaki might have been Berlin.
The primary impetus for the development of the atomic bomb was to do just that, bomb Berlin. While there were doubts, second guesses, and out and out opposition to using the atomic bomb against Japan, there weren't any such objections to using the bomb(s) against the Nazis.
hitler's bet was super weapons were the key to dominance. i think he was correct but being crazy did not help his timing much.
His super weapons were a waste of time and expense. A V2 costed about the same as a 4 engined bomber to build but the bomber was reusable and could be used against advancing armies. The V rockets could only hit a city an made no impact on the advance of the allies in France. The jet programme was waste of time as it achieved nothing and took a lot of resources. The large tanks were a waste of time as they took production away from more effective medium tanks.
The bomber was reality and chemical weapons could easily be dropped on cities which in WW1 was not the case. No one dared to use chemical in case of mass responses. The British developed germ warfare and the Scottish island they used for the tests was only given the all clear for the public about 10 years ago.
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how the german army did as well as they did is a negative miracle.
They gambled and many paid off beyond their widest dreams. Allied incompetence also made the Germans look better than they were.
The primary impetus for the development of the atomic bomb was to do just that, bomb Berlin. While there were doubts, second guesses, and out and out opposition to using the atomic bomb against Japan, there weren't any such objections to using the bomb(s) against the Nazis.
I really don't think so. they wouldn't have fried a Western European capital like Berlin with radiation, that was not acceptable, and wasn't going to happen. But Japan is far off, surrounded by ocean, maybe Chinese and Koreans, expendables. guinea pigs.
Actually the primary impetus for building the bomb was the fear that Germany would build one first. When the Manhattan Project was launched they did not know how destructive of a bomb could be made, they didn't yet know if it was even possible to achieve critical mass or control it if they did. What they did know was that if it was possible, this was going to be the next generation of determining a nation's military might, and that if they were not the first to gain that status, it might not be possible to play catch up with a Germany that did.
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