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\nIn the decades since the second World War, the rise and fall of Nazi Germany has been analyzed from countless angles, but one question that’s often overlooked is how big of a role German leadership played in the downfall: were the men...\nIn the decades since the second World War, the rise and fall of Nazi Germany has been analyzed from countless angles, but one question that’s often overlooked is how big of a role German leadership played in the downfall: were the men who commanded the armies of the Third Reich military geniuses brought down by impossible odds, incompetent madmen driven by pure luck, or somewhere in between? In this video, we’ll try to answer that question by examining the military hierarchy of Nazi Germany, and how their decisions led their country first to conquest, then into ruin.\n
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20:12
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6th - Higher Ed
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\nThe Armchair Historian\n\n
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2022
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adolf hitler, fall, germany, leaders, power
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