[BroJoeK]

"Holy crap...The Nazis were against beer !!
"That's reason enough to fight them !! "

I've long been fascinated by questions such as: how did the Nazis do so well in the beginning, but then fail in the end?

Well.... hmmmmmm... could this be the real reason?

You know, the Germans are a stoic people, accustomed to hardships and long suffering. In extreme conditions they can tolerate pretty much anything, and still continue to function.

But they will not tolerate the absence of beer -- or even inadequate beer. So, I predict that if the Nazis try to deprive them, they will find their unbeatable blitz-krieg machine suddenly bogged down in the mud and unable to move anywhere, except homeward... ;-)

[mick]

You know,Joe, you might be on to something. War is an endeavor of the Will...during our own revolution we were out gunned and out generaled but soldiered on because of the Will of Washington and many (but not all)of his troops in the field.

Maybe the lack of beer sapped the fighting spirit and Will of the Germans...in the same sense - now here I go completely off topic but a friend of mine mentioned it yesterday watching golf on TV and your comments reminded me of it- the same way that a lack of extra curricular women may have apparently sapped the fighting spirit and Will of Tiger Woods. Who knows?? Something sure has changed inside him.