Reasons For Defeat Of Germany

The First World War raged through the world from 1914 to 1918. Germany and Austria-Hungary fought the allies consisting of Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States. The war led to massive destruction and many deaths on both sides. All the European powers had to move millions of men so that they could be at their positions and be ready for war. One of the most famous war plans in First World War was the Schlieffen Plan. The plan was created by the chief of the German general staff Alfred von Schlieffen from 1891 to 1905. The plan's main purpose was to avoid a two-front war with France and Russia but it had major issues. The plan took big risks and was very inflexible. The plan depended on that France would be quickly beaten, and that Russia would be slow to mobilize and was therefore based on assumptions. The Schlieffen Plan had strengths but the weaknesses were too big for the plan to be successful.

The defeat of Germany in World War Two was due to many factors. All of these factors were influenced by the leadership and judgment of Adolf Hitler. Factors such as the stand fast policy, Hitler's unnecessary and risky decision making in military situations, for example when attacking the USSR, and the declaration of war on the US. Plus other factors, like Hitler's alliance with Italy, despite its obvious weaknesses, and the pursuit of the final solution, can all be attributed to the poor leadership and judgement of the Fuhrer, which would eventually lead to the downfall of the Third Reich.

To a large extent the failure of the Schlieffen plan was the most significant reason for

One of the key reasons for Germany's defeat is the internal problems suffered by Germany from late 1917. Morale in the ranks of the Germany army was diminished to a painfully low point: they were exhausted from the spring offensive and on low morale from the turn of the tide at 1918 and the new of the entry of America into the war on the Allied side. Germany was suffering overall supply problems: There were food shortages for over a year, coal became in short

The Schlieffen Plan was created by Alfred von Schlieffen, and he created it to avoid fighting both France and Russia at the same time. The problem was that France and Russia were on opposite sides of Europe. Which meant they would have to split their army in half. The Schlieffen Plan stated that Germany would defeat France while Russia would be mobilizing itś army. They assumed that Russia would take six weeks to mobilize,and that France was weak and Russia was strong. They didn´t think that GB would be fighting for France because of the treaty signed seventy - five years ago. The Schlieffen Plan had many flaws and assumptions.But instead of taking six weeks Russia took ten days, and started fighting when they weren't ready. Which made

The Allies refused to grant the German economy time to recover from the war when Germany stated that they could not make further reparations in 1923 or 1924. This caused Germany to be economically unprepared to establish a democratic republic as well as inspire hate in the German population for the Weimar Republic and enforce the notion of Schmachfrieden- shameful peace, once more.

The plan took nine years to finalize based on the theory that if Germany went to war, they would be faced with a two-front war with France and Russia because of the Franco-Russian alliance that was in place at that time. Wilhelm II was anxious that Britain would intervene in the case of any conflict because she was in an entente with France and that could likely put Germany at war with three powerful countries. Schlieffen concluded that Russia would take six weeks to mobilize because of their large army and that Germany and France could prepare for battle within 15 days. Schlieffen believed that if Germany conquered France, then the German troops could move to a new front against Russia.

Warfare meant that Germany couldn’t import or export manufacturing goods and they had severely limited trade. As a result of World War I, by 1919 Germany was no longer the most economically advanced nation in Europe. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to pay huge amounts in damages to the allies, and by 1921 Germany could no longer pay. Since Germany could no longer pay, the French and Belgian troops attacked and occupied the Ruhr to take resources and needed materials. But then during the years of 1924 to 1929 Germany became gradually wealthy and peaceful, the USA even gave Germany vast amounts of money. During this time the economy was restored, unemployment was low, and the people began to feel safe again. Then another travesty occurred after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 in American economy. This unexpected blow had terrible consequences all over Europe, and between the years of 1929 and 1933 there was high unemployment and severe poverty in Germany. Consequently because of Germany’s unlucky past and the situation they were in at the moment, Hitler decided to take action.

I think that Germany made some incredibly costly mistakes in planning and execution of their war plans. The whole world had learned the mistake Napoleon made in his conquests. He had tried to fight a 2 front war which in that time in the world was just too taxing and could not be sustained (Germany foolishly made the exact same mistake in World War II only 25 years later). The German military staff had overestimated their own military strength as were entirely convinced that a victory over France would be achieved in 39 days and they would have enough time to then turn their attention back east towards Russia. Also the German response to the Russian invasion of Eastern Prussia was . It was believed that Russia was a massive military powerhouse and it had an incredibly formidable military. This was not the case. They had fought poorly against the Japanese in Manchuria and came to a humiliating peace treaty known as the Treaty of Portsmouth, lost to the French and British in Crimea, were outfought by the Turks in the siege of Plevna and it was the Russian winter, not the Russian Army, which had defeated Napoleon. For some reason the nations of Europe viewed Russia with this stigma of invincibility when in all reality they were a poor fighting force with sub par equipment and more or less sheer numbers on their side. Germany had sent 2 corps (which she dearly needed to fight the French and British) from the western front to support the campaign in Eastern Prussia and were essentially being unneeded and proved extremely costly to the Germans. At the battle of Tannenberg, the Russian advance was decisively stopped in its tracks withe the battle being decided only 4 days after it had begun. When Germany's military leaders stubbornly moved their armies through Belgium to gain a tactical advantage before invading France despite Belgium being declared a

Throughout history, there are different groups that experienced worldwide hate. Countries did not feel comfortable with them being in their country. The Jews and Muslims experience very similar hatred in history. The hatred of the Jews occurred during the 1940s during the time of Hitler. Hitler felt they were a threat to Germans and the “superior race”. During present time, the Muslims are experiencing the same worldwide hate as the Jews, even though they are a religious group. The only difference between the two is that Jews were more peaceful and a terrorist group named ISIS is giving the Muslims a bad name worldwide.

Question: Why did Germany fail to translate tactical and operational victories into strategic success during WWII? In modest terms, why did Germany fail to win the war?

To provide examination of historical evidence in order to identify the people’s resentment, commingled in Adolph Hitler’s overestimate of internal abilities in comingled with his underestimation of enemy capabilities on the battlefield. Combine with misappropriated use of resources dictated by the environment and outlining reasons why Germany’s innovation efforts were stifled, even misguided as the main factors that contributed to their defeat become apparent and most probable cause of Germany experiencing operational and tactical success while eventually losing WWII.

When World War 1 had ended, Germany had been at a great loss due to Versailles. They lost

Why Germany lost the War in 1918 After four years of monotonous stalemate the war was finally over. In October the German Chancellor appealed to the USA and by 11th November the armistice was signed in a railway carriage in the French forest of CompiAgne. An end to the war, which had cost so many lives, was the only option for a crumbling Germany. This defeat was inevitable from the outset of 1918 for a number of reasons. They can be split into three categories; the first being the strikes, rebellions and general chaos within a tired, hungry Germany, the second are the gains, losses and mistakes of Germanys military force and the third being the arrival of the USA on the battlefield and the

I have covered a few factors that contributed to Germany's defeat in world war II, technology, allies, ways of fighting, and their military. But there are plenty more things that had taken place to defeat the Germans. You can think about different things such as what factors contributed to Adolf Hitler coming to power.