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FreeNoahface t1_j7mkh88 wrote

Reply to comment by External_Zipper in Would the Allies have kept fighting if the axis powers stopped? by Techno-87

At the end of the day basically every alt history scenario where the Germans are more successful in WWII boils down to "if only the Nazis weren't Nazis, then they could have won."

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Reynbuckets t1_j7mmhfd wrote

Yeah. You would need an entire philosophical retooling in order to have them take different actions. Otherwise they wouldn’t be the Nazis as we know them.

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SgathTriallair t1_j7ms5e5 wrote

This is the core problem with authoritarians. They rule by giving everyone to say that they are the smartest person in the world. This leaves them insane to gather new facts or challenge their assumptions. This eventually they hit the wall of reality and fail.

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