"As far as i see Hitler lost the war the moment he decided to stop his attempts to take over UK."
Improvisation is one thing. But tons of cheaply massproduced T34 (or Sherman) another one. The german warmachine was actually not so good at mass producing and had a faible for overengeneering and Hitler well, "was thinking big" (but with no connection to reality)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte
Full invasion of UK would have been very expensive and Hitlers main ideological goal from the start was gaining new land in the east. ("Blood and earth")
And they came very close to Moscow. If they would have succeded, they would have settled with the west for sure somehow.
>But tons of cheaply massproduced T34 (or Sherman) another one.
Absolutely, and UK shines at that too - they produced 130K aircrafts (US - 350K, USSR - 150K) and 47K tanks (US - 110K, USSR - 120)
>The german warmachine was actually not so good at mass producing
and the US and UK bombers were a major reason
> "Blood and earth"
I'm no expert, but I thought the "Blood and Soil" mantra was referencing how the "real Germans" was of "German blood" and "German soil". It was a calling for nationalism, for kinship based on blood connections.
The expansionism used the "lebensraum" mantra. That the "real German people", as identified by their clean pure blood and soil heritage, needed more space to live.
(I do not claim I am a real expert either, but I did read a lot about it and had loong debates with various neonazis about it)
Im general, yes you are right, but it wasn't so much about the "germans", but the aryan white master race. That must take its natural ruling position over europe. And conquer the lowly slavic lands, not to exterminate them, but to use them as slaves for the pure blood aryans who then would own large lands with workers there.
(It always screamed inferiority complex to me, that the dark haired Hitler installed the blond aryan as the great pure blood example)
Fascism isn’t about reality, it’s about the common delusion.
Anyone who will tell the folks what they want to hear (and isn’t impossible to be delusional about!), can lead.
Sort of. But Hitler definitely believed (most of) his own delusions.
Is that why he gave his personal (Jewish) Dr a cushy way out?
Capturing Moscow would not have been a victory condition for the Nazis.
No, crushing the bolshewiks was that. And it is up to debate, whether capturing moscow would have lead to that.
I really don't know, but the russian red army (and with it the sovjet regime im general) was close to collapse at some points.