Posted on 12/11/2013 5:51:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One of my HS buddy’s father captured a German officer. His name was Ritter, the Kraut was von Ritter.
The conversation was rather lively and less than cordial, and ended when Mr. Ritter placed the barrel of his .45 on the center of Herr von Ritter’s forehead and suggested that he might just want to shut up...
They had to go to war in 1939?
What overwhelming factor prevented them from spending more time getting ready?
China has spent decades getting ready for the impending conflict.
The industrial/military potential of a country has nothing to do with its physical size. Not sure what your point is.
It started off with the question: Why would a country the size of Montana (Germany) take on the world? Just saying/asking. Got the normal responses. Thanks.
It’s definitely still in print, though Amazon is probably your best bet.
In the past few years, interest in Phillip K. Dick has risen sharply. There was even a Phillip K. Dick film festival here in NYC last weekend.
>>The author used the I Ching to make every plot decision as he wrote. It somehow works.
As do the characters in the book who are under Japanese occupation (Western North America).
Another interesting self-reference in the book is the fact that the key characters in the book seek out the reclusive author of a counterfactual history in which the US and its allies won WW II. Best of all, this counterfactual history does not match our own timeline exactly.
Nagasaki?
Hitler wouldn’t need to invade the US. We had a huge 5th column movement in this country via the German American Bund and the America First Committee plus pro German sentiment from anyone who was anti-Semitic or anti-communist. We would have voted in our own Fuhrer. Probably Nelson Rockefeller, lol!
The draconian terms of surrender left them feeling they had nothing to lose, humiliated and angry.
Cornered rat.
Giving them the Sudetenland emboldened them.
A few baby steps from there and pretty soon the whole world is involved.
That plus Europe was tired of war having lost so many during The Great War. Twenty years was not long enough for wounds to heal. Rest of Europe just didn’t want war again. Peace in our time and all that.
Yeah. Appeasement has worked every time it’s been tried, sorta like communism...
And basically what John “Effing” Kerry is doing now with Iran.
Why, what a coinky-dink!
Just wondering if he sets policy or is he just a mouth piece for Obama.....
Iranian born VayJay sets policy.
No, that was the second test.
No, try again.
They had to go to war with the Western Powers. That’s because England lived up to her treaty with Poland. Hitler may or maybe not have expected them to, but the deal with The USSR was too good to pass up.
Had they built up their war machine for another five years and waited to invade Poland until 1944, they could have pulled it off.
I am presenting Hitler’s thinking. He knew the U.S. would roll up the Japanese Navy unless we were tied up in Europe as well. On Dec. 7, 1941, the German Army was within sight of the Kremlin’s towers. Hitler had reason to believe he could focus the might of the Wehrmacht on Britain alone.
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