I'm fairly sure that the last two years of WW2 insofar as Nazi Germany was concerned, any illusion of comfort was if not gone then fast evaporating. By the time the Allies had reached the Ardennes and fuel rationing and hard scarcity was a thing, you'd be back to making deliveries by horse cart and bycicle.

Hitler ruled by brainwashing, fear and secret policing and while Russia technically has a functional representative democracy, let's not kid ourselves that Putin has not clearly set the standards of public discourse irt the "Special Military Operation" that is, establishing a fear of repercussions if you manage to fart in the wrong way in public. (And his Gestapo is just called FSB).

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Yes, eventually Germany was fucked. At the end, and post-war, it was to the point where a lot of Germans who couldn't work simply starved to death.

But as I said, earlier on one of the ways they screwed themselves over was not taking the war seriously enough. Hitler, like Putin, had limits to how far he could push the German public.

Now, if Germany hadn't been filled with so many psychopaths convinced of their own superiority, they might have surrendered earlier in the war, before things had gotten to the point where Germans were literally starving to death... But if German society had been better they probably wouldn't have waged war in the first place.