Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Should Hitler have waited?" video.

They would not have built jets because they had no need to. Propeller driven aircraft was a technology that worked and there was no incentive to change. They may have turned to jets after war started in 1945 but they would still have been in the same place as they were in 1939. The same applies to the idea that by 1945 the Germans would have had Tiger and Panther tanks. Again these came about because of the war and there was no incentive to build them before the war. The T34, on the other hand, would have been a different matter. That came about through clashes with the Japanese in 1938. So the Soviet army would have had more of them by 1945. Would Hitler have been better served if he used diplomacy to deal with the West and Poland and then attacked Russia is a more interesting question. The West may well have been more open to the idea of Germany fighting Russia, especially as communism was causing such problems in their own countries. And as Poland had fought off an invasion from Russia in 1919-1920 they may well have been more open to having some sort of defence pact with Germany. The next part of this is if Hitler had gone into the Soviet Union as a liberator rather then an invader would he have been more successful. Many parts of the Soviet Union had suffered extremely badly under the communists and would have been glad to be rid of them. In fact many from the Soviet Union had joined the Germans in fighting the communists. So coming as a liberator would have made life for the German Army much easier.
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@darklysm8345 That is not what I said. I said the Tiger and Panther were a result of combat experience against the Russians. The Panzer IV went into service in 1939 but it was not until later the the longer barrel 75 mm was fitted.
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