Nazi Germany was years--no, decades--ahead of its time. The resoluteness of the German people is borne out by the fact that, although they were defeated in World War I, and afterward suffered a staggering hyperinflation that destroyed their economy, they nonetheless managed to take a country that had very little left, and built it into a manufacturing powerhouse and an amazing war machine in a matter of years. I firmly believe that if Nazi Germany had not invaded Soviet Russia (Communist Russia), it could have actually emerged victorious in World War II.