Chris Madel
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On the one hand, he's got Europe at his feet.
You know, he's all conquering.
The swastika is flying everywhere.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It looks like it's absolutely amazing.
But Germany itself...
Armaments production has stagnated.
They haven't got enough food.
Rationing is unbelievably stringent in Germany and throughout the Reich.
They haven't got enough of anything.
They haven't got enough fuel.
They haven't got enough resources.
They're blockaded in by the Royal Navy.
They've got the Soviet Union breathing down their necks and trying to ever kind of needle away and expand more.
His one source of oil is almost completely surrounded.
What does he do?
You know, you've got the situation where, on the one hand, he's all-conquering.
On the other hand, he's absolutely pegged in.
And he's as pegged in as Germany ever was, but with bigger borders than he had, which actually cost you more to maintain than they did when you had smaller borders.
And he can't just shore up his defences and go, OK, well, we'll go on to the defensive, because he hasn't got enough resources.