Quotes from President Harry Truman for this age

[Aristus]

4. And that's something of a misnomer, too.

Governments of dictatorships are usually a mess, often deliberately so. Hitler created agencies and bureaucracies with overlapping jurisdictions and vague parameters for operation in order to keep his agency directors squabbling with one another and competing for his favor. He made it so no one dared make an independent decision. He didn't want anyone challenging his power.

As a result, Germany was not put on a total war footing until 1943 when the war was already all but lost.

In Mussolini's Italy, the trains never ran on time, no matter how much Il Duce boasted that they did.