Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "Why didn’t Hitler End the War when he Failed to get the OIL of the Caucasus?" video.

Japan lost their oil when their tankers were sunk by US submarines. They had lost the war long before they started losing Indonesia.
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He knew that the Allies still had enormous stocks of chemical weapons left over from WW1 and Germany did not, and German intelligence thought the Americans had something like Sarin themselves (not knowing that their research on organophosphates was for use as insecticides), so he thought that expanding the war to chemical warfare would only make things worse for Germany.
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@spartanrh83 That's a lot of nonsense. Germany had lost the war, its allies were all surrendering, its army was broken and the front was collapsing, its economy was completely collapsing, its people were starving. Things were only going to get worse for them. Blame the Allied leaders for the stupid vindictiveness of Versailles, not the German civilian government, because there was absolutely nothing the German government could do to prevent it.
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Which is why it was so foolish of Hitler to become so obsessed with Stalingrad.
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@jussim.konttinen4981 They surrendered after Hitler shot himself. The top Nazis knew the only peace they'd get would be at the end of a rope. In personal terms they had nothing left to lose by fighting on no matter how hopeless things looked, and since Hitler had always said the war would result in the complete annihilation of the supposed Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy or of Germany itself, in political terms they had nothing to lose either.
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Wilhelm Canaris. He was head of the Abwehr, the Germans didn't have a unified intelligence service. But he didn't work for the Mossad or anyone else after the war because the Nazis caught on to him and had him shot a month before the war ended.
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@elbuggo It wasn't a local conflict, it was a pattern of behavior that covered all of central Europe. Hitler would swear up down and sideways that he had no more territorial ambitions and then he'd turn around and invade someone else. He plainly couldn't be trusted on anything and in fact he wanted the UK and France to start a war over Poland - he'd wanted them to start a war over the Sudetenland a year earlier and was reportedly furious when Mussolini stepped in and organized the Munich conference.
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@jussim.konttinen4981 Too close to Russia and Britain, for one thing. And Argentina had a more sympathetic government.
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Stalin was gonna get medieval on his ass.
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That was often the Japanese logistical plan as well.
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The problem was that Hitler, like Napoleon before him, was unwilling to make meaningful concessions when he was winning, and by the time he was ready to make serious concessions, his position had become so bad that his enemies had little to lose by just finishing him off.
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What did Hitler have to lose by continuing the war? The Allies had said they would accept nothing but unconditional surrender, Hitler certainly knew what would happen to him after such a surrender, and in his ideology defeat and occupation by the supposed Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy would be a fate worse than death for Germany. The ideology that got him to that point may have been irrational, as was his decision to start the war given the economic realities, but at that point, after the atrocities committed on his orders, his decision to fight to the bitter end was the only rational choice.
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The eastern front had about twice as many divisions, but something like 3/4 of the Luftwaffe's fighter strength and AAA was deployed either on the western front or defending against US/UK strategic bombing. So it was far from insignificant or a sideshow.
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Very unlikely, FDR was in terrible health for the last couple of years of his life and many of those closest to him feared he wouldn't survive a fourth term as president.
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@Ghost23712 Yes but he was unable to give up any of the occupied territory. Britain was never going to accept a peace that left Germany occupying the Channel coast, it was the same reason they went to war in 1914. And his aggression and broken promises had become so egregious that Britons had come to think they'd be better off dealing with Stalin than Hitler.
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