Would anyone happen to know where I could find good information on the weaknesses of the political structure of Nazi Germany and the Wehrmacht?
The shortcomings of the Wehrmacht and Nazi Germany's political structure.
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Inside Hitler’s High Command by Geoffrey Megargee is a good one when it comes to the political problems within the Wehrmacht and Civilian-Military Relations.
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You may want to give a bit more detail because running that through a search engine comes up with some sort of shareware package.
Not sure if this exactly pertains to your question, but here is an interesting video on the economic shortcomings of Nazi policies:
It mainly deals with the unsustainability of the Nazi economy (growth to fuel conquest in order to create growth in order to fuel conquest etc.).
Well, one minor detail about Nazi Germany was that the post office had a nuclear program of sorts. In addition, Nazi Germany had three land armies (the regular Heer, the Waffen-SS, and "Luftwaffe Ground Units" (including a panzer division)). Here are three threads on Nazi administrative chaos (and how it affected their war effort):
How chaotic was Nazi organization?
I hear that in all that comes to administration and military, the Nazis were extremely disorganized. It included many overlapping authorities, many times officials did not know how to respond as they did not know which duties were under whose control, it was all geared in a way that would limit...
www.alternatehistory.com
How much was Nazi Germany's war effort impeded by it's administration?
While we all know the 3rd Reich was hardly the paradigm of Germanic/Fascist efficiency that the myth claimed it was, how much then was it's war effort impeded by chaotic administration? How much did the system of overlapping military responsibilities and contradictory economic policies harm the...
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