Their tanks sucked and their most famous tank ace was a fraud who's only remembered that way due to historians fucking it up. A great deal of their "genius" ideas for weaponry were them being wallet inspected for funding by their own scientists.
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Not to mention they already had a set of fairly competent designs for a new one and then they said "no. Make it fatter" and then the engineers changed nothing other than making it fatter and it just did not work
And even *when* their "genius" weapons were the best around^, it did jack shit when the Allies could send twice as much stuff that was still like 80% as good...
^(Not accounting for things like ease of use and transport...)
their tanks sucked, their uniforms sucked to the point of hazard, their guns weren’t anything special, their planes sucked, their rockets killed more people during construction and testing than use, their medicine was mostly just torture, and their propaganda was the same RETVRN shit we see today
They invented the first stealth plane is one I've seen a few times and no the fuck they did not. They did invent a fighter that dissolves the pilot in acid though.
I know I'm talking about military stuff mostly but so much of their identity and propaganda was tied to it that it's hard not to.
There's a really good Behind the Bastards episode with Karl from InRangeTV about the effects of the Maxim gun on British imperial military propaganda. Namely that it was explicitly never mentioned because it actually DID radically impact colonial expansion.
If any of the nazi shit worked, they wouldn't talk about it as special, they'd say it was normal and chalk their success up to "warrior spirit" or some bullshit
You will never convince me that the Triebflügel wasn't a product of someone stealing the entire team's schnapps rations and downing it all 12 hours before deadline
The Komet! Used binary rocket fuel to blast the pilot into the sky. The fuels were INSANELY reactive and toxic. One of them would melt the pilot. The other exploded in contact with ... Like literally anything. Water, air, metal, whatever.
This thing killed more of their own pilots than allied ones. Pilots were advised not to land until ALL the fuel was gone otherwise you risked getting dissolved or blown up.
Acid dissolving like half the pilots wasn't on purpose so to speak, just the logical outcome anybody not cooked out of their brain on race science could see putting binary acids in a glass tank immediately behind the pilot of a combat aircraft
Even when they did work they were just woefully inadequate to deal with settings that weren’t just a flat open field. Big box vehicles literally the size of a barn.
This looks like a fun time to fuck about on as an allied soldier like this but trying to use a loud ass drivable explosive for surprise attacks is the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard
it's extremely telling that for all their dozens of alleged 'superweapons', none of them ended up being deployed or mattering or influencing the next century of warfare or technology.
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^(Not accounting for things like ease of use and transport...)
I know I'm talking about military stuff mostly but so much of their identity and propaganda was tied to it that it's hard not to.
(since we're talking about the goddamn Nazis here there is a nonzero chance it did that on purpose but still curious)
that said i'm also amused to read that the chemical which made the Me 163 deadly to pilot was called "T-Stoff"
and "stoff" does in fact mean "stuff," though in the "stuff dreams are made of" sense
Big slow unreliable tank destroyers which broke down before even making it into combat.
I think a lot of the reason why people still carry on the myths is because an underdog story of the Allies beating Wonder weapons sounds cool.