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Nazism was literally a peasant movement e.g. Hitler was a poor bum and Heinrich Himmler wanted to be a chicken farmer and the Nazis idealized dumb blonde warrior farmers (peasant types).
The British Alan Turing built a computer that hacked the Nazi enigma machine etc..
Einstein and other Jews e.g. Oppenheimer made the Nazi V2 rocket bomb look like a sad joke.
The Germans are good at engineering but both the closed aristocracy of mathematicians and humanists (liberal arts types) look down on grubby engineers. Mathematicians tolerate scientists because scientists are their best customers but think engineers are unsuitable to be taught real math.
One thing the American defense establishment has traditionally understood very well is that countries don’t win wars just by being braver than the other side, or freer, or slightly preferred by God. The winners are usually the guys who get 5% fewer of their planes shot down, or use 5% less fuel, or get 5% more nutrition into their infantry at 95% of the cost. That’s not the stuff war movies are made of, but it’s the stuff wars are made of. And there’s math every step of the way.
The Nazis were uneducated peasants that got defeated by math. Mathematicians have been an aristocracy , of sorts, since Egyptian and Sumerian times.
1.) The Enigma machine was based on math i.e encryption that Alan Turing hacked
2.) The USA used the mathematical SRG group in Manhattan New York to defeat the Luftwaffe etc..
Etc.. etc..
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