Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
On 7 Mar, Ron Johnson wrote:
> ...
> :-)
>
> That's a great what-if game.
>
> What-if... the Germans had just stopped at Greece and the English
> Channel?
>
> What-if... the Germans hadn't gone to Moscow, and just focused on
> Kiev, Stalingrad and the Caucuses?
>
> What-if... Hitler hadn't declared war on the US?
>
> All the steel that was used in building U-boats could have gone into
> building tanks, we probably wouldn't have blockaded them, or bombed
> their cities or provided gobs and gobs of war material to the Sovs.
>
> They'd have had Lebensraum and all that Caucasus/Romanian oil, plus
> Poland, all of Western Europe & Norway.
>
I think that a majority historians agree that Germany would have
lost the war even if the US hadn't entered it, mostly due to opening
too many fronts (i.e. invading Russia). How much longer it would have
taken is open to conjecture.
-Chris
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