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And the Nazis manage to fund their war by stealing their neighbors gold reserves, property, raw maerials, and food stores.

Even if this rather esoteric explanation were more than tangentially true it’s irrelevant; the Germans would allocate their stolen booty to U-boat production instead of war with Russia. And since the Russian war cost the Germans much more than they ever recovered in booty from it, it cannot be argued other than that all the wealth and manpower the Germans poured down that gaping yaw would instead become U-boats and aircraft fighting Great Britain.
GTE – stick to your guns. I just about fell off my chair laughing when someone said that Germany couldn’t find room in Europe to port more U-boats. Hello – Norway??? BTW – the Germans themselves must have been really, really confused little ubermeisters, because they ran their economy with the impression that by allocating their materials and manpower, they could divert their war economy towards the production of any materials they chose, with the limitation being raw materials and manpower, not finances.