@whydama:
Problem was Hitler wasn't very good at alliances and manipulating civilians in foreign countries either.
He formed an alliance with Japan which bought him nothing except an earlier confrontation against the United States after Pearl Harbor that it needed to be.
Now Japan COULD have been useful to Hitler had he heavily pressured Japan to invade the Soviet Union at around the same time he invaded it. He didn't even try this intuitive move. Hell... he underestimated the Soviets to the point that he didn't want the Japanese to have any ''credit'' in the final defeat of Communism.
Hitler broke his alliance with the Soviets while Great Britain was still standing and still a threat... a good Risk player never does this. You NEVER provoke another giant when you are fighting one already.
Hitler's ultimate fail at manipulating the masses can be seen in his genocidal policies. He drove many of his nation's most brilliant minds (ex Einstein etc) OUT of his country and into countries he would later fight against. By being a dogmatic racist, he lost a TON of opportunities by needlessly pissing people off and driving people out.
In Russia during the initial stages of his campaigns many Russians and Soviet ethnic minorities HATED Stalin and wanted to help the Germans. Instead of taking full advantage of this... Hitler spits in their face and orders his troops to exterminate and enslave them to the max... thus forcing them to fight for Stalin.
You see... Hitler was a terrible strategist and manipulating the masses in times of war and managing alliances were not his strong points.
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