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WWII - How the German military was hampered without sufficient oil supply, and when they begin to lose in 1944

 WWII - How the German military was hampered without sufficient oil supply, and when they begin to lose in 1944 There is little as argued about in the public sphere, in the field of history, than with wars, and little as wrong in the mainstream public's historical understanding of events, than of wars. In part due to propaganda, romanticization of war, a failure to understand basic military strategies, tactics, and logistics, and the sheer complexity of history in general, combined with the difficulty of recording events on the battlefield given their sheer danger and sporadic nature, much real information is actually lost, and so when combined with one's own personal interpretation of events, allows for a broad range of views to develop. Each person likes to believe they have the real, true answer, and that other's are wrong; this is true even for this article, and as a result much misinformation persists as history has no unbiased actors to record events. There is often a...