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Originally Posted by James_Joyce
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^^this is pretty accurate. The invasion of Poland was one of the primary decision points of the war that could be considered a mistake.
I would contend that it still wasn't exactly a mistake, as the Germans wanted to capitalize on their momentary leads economically and in the arms race. If they hadn't struck at this time, the documented international aggression toward Nazi Germany would surely have escalated the situation to war at a later time which would have rendered prospects of Nazi victory even more distant, and continued servitude in internationalist debt slavery a guarantee.
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It's debatable. Nazi Germany would have been the first to create both nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, technologies which were looted from Germany or the German scientific community during and after the war.
The scientific revolution that created the core of modern chemistry, physics, and biology, and laid the foundation for modern life, largely occurred in Germany in the early 1900's. Erwin Schrodinger, Max Planck, Werner van Braun, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Robert Koch, Niels Bohr, and Hendrik Lorrentz, were all either Germanic (Dutch/German/Austrian/Danish) nationals or residents of Germany. Both Einstein and J. Oppenheimer were German but had emigrated. If you've taken science classes you've heard these names.
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