At what point in WW2 did the German people realize the whole thing was a mistake?

I can imagine you're fantasizing about Joe and his daughter in the shower while typing this.

Ever hear of "Lebensraum"? Was conquering Poland, Norway, France, Netherlands, Belgium, UK and all of the Balkans just a warm up act for their "main goal" of getting to the commies? Or maybe their ideology was just a tad aggressive and exploitive in and of itself?

The causes of WWII and the rise of Nazism is more complicated than 'this bunch of bad guys wanted to kill Jews'.

The origin of the Axis Alliance was the Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement that Germany, Japan and Italy would coordinate antisemitic and anti-communist propaganda.

There's ample evidence of the Nazis hostility to communism and it's focus on anti-communism as a recruiting tool.

If you watch the GREAT documentary “ World at War” , in interviewing citizens and certain officials within the party, they were with Hitler right up to the fall of France.

At that point the population thought the war over but industrialists immediately afterwards along with very few Generals of the command staff saw hitler building up even larger military supplies and armaments for the “ Operation Barbarossa “, the invasion for which Hitler had confided to Yodel it would be “ their turn next”

When Goebbels announced to the German people the moment the invasion was announced, they knew the war was over.

Not surprising that this has turned into a twisted pro nazi thread. It's letsrun after all, and the pro-nazis trolls here probably get a bonus at the end of the year. The entire premise of WWII is written in Hitler's book, but some here are trying to make the scenario different.

They wanted a larger chunk of land, to take Poland and parts of Russia as their own. And Hitler blamed the Jews as the source of their problems. This history is pretty well known. As far as when the war was lost certainly when they invaded Russia and that didn't work. By the time the allies invaded Normandy in 1944 and into Germany by 1945, the citizens certainly knew that it would not end well for them.

That was a fantastic documentary. When it first aired in America I was a baby. But I recently watched it on YouTube. The documentary was in the early 70s so a lot of WW 2 vets from all countries were not only still alive but relatively young. They interviewed many of them.

Thanks for that.
I have to watch this.

I’m incredulous the editors of Letsrun would allow Douglas Burke’s Nazi screed to be published on this thread, along with a few other like-minded, ignorant, and non-sensical comments. That being said, Nazism wasn’t primarily built upon a foundation of hatred towards communism; it was first and foremost an attempt to consummate Hitler’s dream of a “thousand-year reich” where white “pure” blooded Nordic “Aryans” ruled with an iron, bloody fist over lesser blooded races, including “Slavs”, mixed-race, and black and brown peoples. Jews, who Hitler considered exceptionally rationalistic (he hated their scientists like Einstein, especially) and materialistic, were to be genocidally erased from the face of the Earth. When Hitler’s manifesto “Mien Kampf” was published in the wake of his time in prison in 1923 (it eventually became a bestseller across Germany), it blended with anti Russian (where the Russian/Communist revolution was taking place) and communist sentiment and a prevailing sense of victimization many everyday defeated Germans felt during the bleak economic aftermath of World War I to create a cultural atmosphere open to Hitler’s utterly hateful ideas. Many of these ideas persisted among everyday Germans of that era until they died out and were replaced by more educated and open-minded generations. Make no mistake, however, that such hateful ideas still persist and are once again gathering supporters in Europe as well as among Trump’s supporters today.

Can we get this deleted or does this site and moderators condone this sort evil drivel?

Do better Let’s Run. This is straight neo Nazi white supremacy garbage. Get this out of here. If not you are condoning this.

at the same point the Japanese population realized that the Imperial Japanese Military were perpetrating war crimes...never. Even now the Japanese only ever cry about Hiroshima and Nagasaki

In spring 1943, Goering was told that Allied bombers had fighters accompanying them, for the first time.

"The war is over" he reportedly said.

What I know is that there some fine people on both sides

Thank you for that wisdom from the Unified Reich.

In WWII the Axis chose for the U.S., not the other way around.

In 2024, for maybe the first time since Korea, the U.S. is on the right side of history in Ukraine. It is boggling that many of those that think they would have fought the USSR along side Patton would today take the side of a Stalin-spawn KGB kleptocrat. But ignorance always finds the lowest level of morality.