Why Did The German Army Lose World War II?

September 1st 1939, Hitler’s vast Nazi army sweeps through Poland starting the Second World War as France, the United Kingdom and her allies declare war on the axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan. Then in the summer of 1940 Germany invades and captures France within a matter of weeks. With an army so powerful and strong how did the German Army get defeated in 1945 only six years after sweeping through Poland? Was it due to bad decisions made on the attack of Russia, Hitler’s need for power or his hatred for the Jewish people that brought him down? Was Hitler’s attack on Russia his greatest downfall? Looking at all the evidence, Hitler’s 1941 attack on Russia was what made the German Army lose World War II.
For example bad decision making
At the start of the attack on Russian special units, called Einsatzgruppen, were deployed behind the front lines to annihilate Russian Jews, Communists and other people that the Nazi party had deemed to be dangerous to establishment of long-term German rule of Russia. The Einsatzgruppen were often known as ‘mobile killing units’, these units’ commenced mass-murder operations mostly against Jewish males but also against officials of the Communist Party and State and Soviet Roma. Often with help from German Army personnel they Einsatzgruppen also established holding facilities to concentrate large numbers of Soviet Jews. In Germany at this time skilled Jewish people, such as doctors, electricians and chemists and others, were still being killed as the German Army desperately needed doctors on the eastern front and other skilled workers. A huge amount of resources was needed to ‘annihilate’ the Jews. This unnecessary murdering of Jews was a large mistake on Hitler’s behalf as the German Army and the SS were killing skilled Jews, when they were deeply needed to help Germany win the war. Doing all of this also wasted precious resources that would lose him the