Glorifying the Nazi army is a joke. They were well stocked, well armored and well geared and yet got a sound thumping in the war. Even during the initial invasion of Poland, the Nazi Wehrmacht was a useless force which took too long to defeat an under-equipped and small Polish army. It was the airforce with its screaming Stukas which shook the Polish army and not the Wehrmacht. The pictures of the Wehrmacht marching victoriously through Poland was staged by Hitler who was disappointed by their performance during the Polish invasion. The only advantage which the Wehrmacht had was its size. It was huge in number. If comparison is had to the size of the army of the UK, it's a shame that the Wehrmacht could never decisively defeat the British army before the US joined the war. If we consider the performance of the US army post world war 2, I would think that they put the Nazi Wehrmacht to shame.
Wrong on so many levels. The early war Wehrmacht was even less equipped and motorized than the French, and not numbers but tactics won them the Battle of France. While the Allies were primarily using semi auto rifles as service issued weapon, the Germans had the bolt action Kar98k, but their training was adequate for making maximum use of accurate fire and combined with good MG fire they had it going well.
Men like Guderian and Rommel are a fine example of their tactical prowess, had they not made the Soviets their foes, they could've easily ended the war on their own terms. German Staff was brilliant but hijacked by Hitler, who despite some remarkable feats during his commanding career, such as the outflanking and massive captures during Op Barbarossa, failed at a strategic level as he overestimated his potential, and in short was not realistic after initial feats.
The British were lazy folks, masters of the sea but i wouldn't rate them good as an army. The English Channel saved their arses. Their air force was however good enough on a tactical level to resist the Luftwaffe on homeground.
Germans had a weak ally in the European theatre, and that gave the Allies opportunity to thin the German deployments and divert attention from the Eastern Front by campaigns in the Mediterranean.
The biggest reason for higher Allied casualties was the Wehrmacht itself, even in it's final days, it inflicted heavier losses, such as Model's defence of Aachen, and operations in the Hurtgen Forest.
The fact that most armies post WW2 took inspiration from Hitler's War Machine in tactics and manouver, is a testament to it's prowess and legacy, as the war's best fighting force.
