The Nazis were incompetent criminals whose mythical reputation in warfare is wholly unearned, and whose utter incompetence was on display constantly. You should mock their drug-addled stupidity at every turn.
- A key factor in the success of the blitzkrieg was getting the army blasted on methamphetamine.
- The British captured a FW-190 because (as the story goes) a German pilot got disoriented in a dogfight and thought he was landing at an airfield in France, when he was, in fact, landing at an RAF airfield in Wales.
- Nazi aircraft introduced later in the war all had nightmarish engineering problems, including HS-129, which had such a cramped cockpit that instruments had to be mounted on the exterior of the plane; the HE-162, a jet aircraft held together by wood glue and which had its engine situated right behind the cockpit, making ejecting a death sentence; and the ME-163 'komet', the rocket-powered fighter with fuel so nasty it melted at least one pilot.
It's widely remembered (and should be repeated) that the Nazis were more reliant on horses than on feats of German Engineering, but also, when they did go in on wild experimental weapons, the results often killed more of their own operators than they did allied soldiers.
