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You know what the worst kind of thing is with WW2 stuff? Being into historical tanks and planes while still believing that war is pretty shitty and the Nazis didn't lose hard enough.
Yes, I think a tank is a cool engineering achievement. No, I don't want to talk to you about how war crimes are actually neat. No, I don't want to help you beat up minorities.
Exactly. WW2 is the last great period of analog engineering.
It's also the only time racists had a technological edge going into a fight so they cling to the idea they had a chance. The overlap is frustrating. I just want to learn more about analog circuits that can be shot out of a cannon!
It's more like Germany had a test run in Spain where they got to try out all of their new toys and strategies in a live environment. While everyone else was still planning for a new round of trench warfare.
I think it's funny that everyone thinks that Germany had the most advanced tech they didn't. They did have the most advanced presses and they did have more refined metallurgical processes. But that's because they didn't have any good local sources of iron. Just a lot of magnesium and coal.
Tldr being really good in a few Fields out of 30 odd Fields required for warfare does not make you the most technologically advanced. But it does make your industry make fewer tanks with thicker armor.