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Hardware is tiny part of technology. This wasn't an army with modern technology - just a mob which got its hands on hardware, without any of the know-how and training necessary to use it properly. And in any case rifles were already ancient technology by then - the battle was won with Maxim machine guns like most battles of that time.
Such number are not atypical. See battles of Carrhae, Legnica, Poitiers, Německý Brod and many others - all against modern enemy armies, not some Neolithic mobs which got its hands on some hardware it didn't know how to use. It was very typical about warfare that losing side got massacred while fleeing, so 10:1 casualty ratios were the norm, and 100:1 not unheard of.
As for Hitler, organization skills require a lot of intelligence.