By bpodgursky
That’s not * really * accurate. The Germans had a big head start, because they started the war, of course. But by the time the US and USSR had ramped up to full military production, by 1943-44, they could have rolled through Germany 3 times over and had hardware to spare.
The US was by no means at the end of its resources by the end of the war, running on fumes (the Germans were of course, out of fumes).
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485439
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