>>23457032
That's an interesting analogy and a degree of historical accuracy I wouldn't expect on a random space colony /m/ thread. America had several times more industry and resources but that's also true. The US centralized theirs, gathered all the knowledge, experienced personnel and resources and put it all under one roof, whereas the Germans had several competing groups, who were all competing with each other for funding and got little done, even before their shit got blown up. The whole Darwinian intentional infighting intentionally implemented in the Nazi is rarely shown in space Nazis in fiction. Their secret services like the Gestapo were spending just as much time killing each other. We see inefficiency and infighting in Zeon, in Star Wars the Galactic Empire, but nowhere as much as in real Nazi Germany. The entire political/industrial structure of Nazi Germany was a nightmarish tangle of private businesses, government organizations, bureaucrats, and ambitious officials with overlapping portfolios and responsibilities. Hitler frequently gave out contradictory orders and deliberately pitted his subordinates against each other as part of his social Darwinist beliefs; the strongest and best would naturally rise to the top through competition while the others were weeded out, thus improving the whole. In practice, this system was dysfunctional, inefficient, unresponsive, wasteful, and full of more backstabbing bastardry than an average game of Diplomacy. People became too scared to make decisions without Hitler around, companies and factories wasted precious time and materials on design contracts that were ultimately awarded to other firms, there was an ongoing multi-way fight between the army, Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe, and Waffen-SS for resources, manpower, and money throughout the war, and people like Himmler and Goering carved out their own private spheres of influence in the middle of it all, further splintering the government. It's Sith without Empire.
