>>8296216German troops were largely brainwashed naive men in their late teens to early 20s who were pretty sheltered and soft led by tweakers who attempted to instill psychopathic morals that many didn't fundamentally agree with. This creates a mass force which looks only towards glory and arbitrary goals to aim for and not a military which has a moral backing and a root survival complex to motivate them. The "elite" troops were well trained but fanatical and killed off early on by their idiotic leaders blunders as you stated. Really you're just backing up the claim that the German population of the time were just butthurt tweakers guiding naive sheltered poor kids to their doom and that the opinions of WWII era Nazi Germany shouldn't be seen as a metric by which to meter other nations military prowess with.
