Posted on 11/13/2010 5:26:40 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
What makes you think Germany does not still control Western and Eastern Europe?
And while we're at it, what makes you think Germany lost the war?
;-)
Here here is another emissary whose name is synonymous with something from WWII. In this case- with a cheap, hand thrown explosive.
To think 70 years in the future 99% of the population have no idea who you are - but they know the cocktail - not the man.
Here here is another emissary whose name is synonymous with something from WWII. In this case- with a cheap, hand thrown explosive.
To think 70 years in the future 99% of the population have no idea who you are - but they know the cocktail - not the man.
Do you think Stalin would have quit even if he had lost Moscow? That loss didn't finish the Russians when Napoleon invaded.
I feel like going to Schrafft’s and springing for the $1.50 “special steak dinner”.
That Page 1 story about the Supreme Court handing the NLRB a rare defeat was interesting. The National Labor Relations Board had demanded that Republic Steel reimburse WPA for wage relief paid to striking workers. In a 6 - 2 decision, the Court told the communists to go pound sand. The NY Times reporter notes that three Roosevelt appointments joined the majority.
Reading the caption I see that two of the "German officers" are Ribbentrop and Keitel. Is Ribbentrop a civilian in dress up?
You're right, it didn't. In fact, that loss finished Napoleon.
Moscow had mostly been abandoned by the Russians and Napoleon's army was killed by the cold.
The Russians in 1941 had already adopted the same "scorched earth" tactics that the Russians in 1812 used against Napoleon. I don't think losing Moscow would have caused Stalin to throw in the towel anymore than that same loss caused Alexander I to quit in 1812. Stalin would have just continued the tactic of trading space for time as he retreated eastward.
Well, the Nazis certainly lost the war. And, lets not forget, that despite the West German economic success, Germany remained divided for 45 years. It is quite possible that we STILL don’t know who won WWII, because its effects are still being felt. It may be that the ultimate winners of WWII will be the Muslims.
Indeed, Stalin did have plans to move deep into Siberia if he lost Moscow. If so, he might have stayed there for a while, licking his wounds. Also, he would have been effectively cut off from resupply by the West, which is what kept the Soviet Union in the war for a while. If the Germans had managed to isolate him there, then they would have had a much better position.
Of course, its all academic speculation.
It's my recollection that Ribbentrop held a more or less honorary senior SS rank.
The real problem with the M13/40 is that they were still in front line use by the Italian army three years later, when they were being pitched against Shermans, M10's and Churchills.
The alliance with Soviet Russia was always one of convenience, and everyone realised it. They both needed it because they both hated Poland and wanted to dismember her. Later Hitler needed it to protect his rear while he dealt with the French, and Stalin needed it to buy time to rebuild the red army following the purges and the debacle in Finland. There was never any doubt that the two would be at war with one another. They were total idealogical opponents for a start off, and Hitlers grand plan was for “lebensraum” (living space) in the East. Inevitably that meant war with the Russians.
The nation that won WW2 was unquestionably the USA.
Well played.
Yeah, but part of me thinks, at the end of the war, Stalin was thankful for Hitler taking care of his "Jewish Problem." Stalin was very anti-semitic himself.
Stalin was planning on being ready to attack Germany by 1943.
There would have inevitably been war between the two, the question is, who would throw the first blow.
I’ve not heard of that happening. You might be thinking of the Italian L3/L5 tankette (sometimes called the CV-35 and broadly similar to the British Bren gun carrier). They were used extensively in Ethiopia and somalialand and in the opening years of WW2 and were very poorly armored.
Well, quite.
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