Yes, the British were ingenious - that's' true. They had to be, since they neither had the industrial output nor the manpower of the US or USSR. And they hold the distinction of being the only country that continuously fought the entire World War - from 3 September 1939 to 15 august 1945.
So they did a lot of fighting and contributed a lot.
The French honestly bought them very little time. It actually took Germany as long to conquer Norway as France in 1940.
And the Polish losses where terrifying - but they don't actually say much about their military contribution in defeating the Germans as the majority of Polish losses where civilian. Which makes it all the more terrifying of course - but it didn't help fighting the Germans, unfortunately.
The US did have enormous industrial production - absolutely. But just talking about Germany (or the Nazis as the comic puts it) we have to remember that much of that US production went into fighting Japan.
And when you say "American arms" we have to remember that much of the arms the US did make actually where inferior to what the Soviets made.
So looking at Lend-Lease for instance, which many Americans will say made a big difference to the Soviets - that's both true and not.
Because the arms the US sent the Russians where actually inferior to what they produced themselves.
But - on the other hand - much of the other stuff the US sent was very helpful. Like trucks and food and even uniforms. Because the USSR had basically retooled their entire industry for making arms - which is why they in 1943 could produce more tanks then the rest of the combined world.
And they mostly built T-34's - much superior to the American Sherman tank.
But as I said - they really where helped by the trucks and food the US sent, so that was important.
America also had the edge in fighters (especially when they started building British Rolls-Royce Merlin engines on license) and heavy bombers.
So the Soviets total industrial output was smaller then the US - but everything they built fought the Nazis, and almost all of it was good stuff.
And as I said - after June 1941 the Germans never had less then 75% of their land forces against the Soviets.
Which meant that what the US and UK was fighting in North Africa, Italy or France was never more then 25% of the German land forces.
So really - the major credit for defeating the Nazis has to go to the USSR, there is no way round that fact.
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Yes, the British were ingenious - that's' true. They had to be, since they neither had the industrial output nor the manpower of the US or USSR. And they hold the distinction of being the only country that continuously fought the entire World War - from 3 September 1939 to 15 august 1945.
So they did a lot of fighting and contributed a lot.
The French honestly bought them very little time. It actually took Germany as long to conquer Norway as France in 1940.
And the Polish losses where terrifying - but they don't actually say much about their military contribution in defeating the Germans as the majority of Polish losses where civilian. Which makes it all the more terrifying of course - but it didn't help fighting the Germans, unfortunately.
The US did have enormous industrial production - absolutely. But just talking about Germany (or the Nazis as the comic puts it) we have to remember that much of that US production went into fighting Japan.
And when you say "American arms" we have to remember that much of the arms the US did make actually where inferior to what the Soviets made.
So looking at Lend-Lease for instance, which many Americans will say made a big difference to the Soviets - that's both true and not.
Because the arms the US sent the Russians where actually inferior to what they produced themselves.
But - on the other hand - much of the other stuff the US sent was very helpful. Like trucks and food and even uniforms. Because the USSR had basically retooled their entire industry for making arms - which is why they in 1943 could produce more tanks then the rest of the combined world.
And they mostly built T-34's - much superior to the American Sherman tank.
But as I said - they really where helped by the trucks and food the US sent, so that was important.
America also had the edge in fighters (especially when they started building British Rolls-Royce Merlin engines on license) and heavy bombers.
So the Soviets total industrial output was smaller then the US - but everything they built fought the Nazis, and almost all of it was good stuff.
And as I said - after June 1941 the Germans never had less then 75% of their land forces against the Soviets.
Which meant that what the US and UK was fighting in North Africa, Italy or France was never more then 25% of the German land forces.
So really - the major credit for defeating the Nazis has to go to the USSR, there is no way round that fact.