Why is the German army so great that so many nations were needed against it?

Question

Why is the German army so great that so many nations were needed against it?

Answer 1

Technically Germany picked a fight with so many nations.  The Soviets and the Americans only fought the Germans cause the Germans started the fight.  Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and declared war on the USA only after the USA declared war on Japan solely in Dec 1941.

In WWI all the nations involved were tangle in a mess of treaties that brought a majority of the nations into the war and stacked a bunch of nations against Germany.

Answer 2

They had superior tactics, leaders, tanks, aircraft, weapons and training. That is still mostly true to this day. Deutschland Uber Alles!

Answer 3

They were prepared.

Answer 4

If you asked this in 1942 or 1917, then you would be on to something, but not in 2008. Not with German bearly able to deploy and use their troops in combat in Afghanistan or in Kososvo. Those days or over son.

Answer 5

If you're talking about World War II, they weren't. They had help from the Japanese and a little from the Italians. It only took France, Great Britain, and America to take them down because the n**i party forced some men to join the military.

Answer 6

If you're referring to WWII, it's largely due to the fact that they mastered "maneuver warfare." That is, they used highly mobile armor, artillery, and mechanized infantry to strike fast and hard, a technique they called "Blitzkrieg." In German, it means "lightning war." The problem they encountered with this type of tactic is that the tip of the spear, as it were, moved so fast that supply lines grew longer and longer, eventually countering any gains that were made by moving so fast. When the Germans were stopped by the Russian winter, they had moved so far east that they couldn't get enough materiel to continue their push eastward. they floundered in cities like Kharkov and Stalingrad, and were reduced to merely trying to preserve their gains. This resulted in vicious urban combat that became a war of attrition. They were eventually pushed back to the west and defeated.

Answer 7

they were ready first

they made some headway before everybody else geared up

Answer 8

Germany wasn't fighting alone.  They had their allies called the Axis powers and most opposed them fought them by themselves because most countries wanted to stay out of the war.

Answer 9

It was do to many factors.  The n***s were evil yes but they were brilliant tacticians, they managed to train their before WW2 by helping in the Spanish Civil war on the side of Francisco Franco.  

What the Blitzkrieg did it, they smashed right through unprepared countries and managed to defeat several of the major europeans powers, France most notably.  Also the French just suck at war period.

Also remember that it just wasn't germany the allies were fighting against.  It was Germany, Italy and Japan.  So it took, the US, UK and Russia to defeat all 3.

Answer 10

Change that "is" to a "was" please.

Germany does still have a good army, which is arguably the best in europe, but it couldn't win a war, because it has no nuclear weapons.