Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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On 03/07/07 07:57, judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
> 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.
Hmmm. The Sovs *really* needed our food, bullets, etc. And they
opened *three* Russian fronts (north to Leningrad, center to Moscow
& south to Stalingrad and the Caucuses).
We all agree, though, that Hitler was a suck-ass military leader.
>
> -Chris
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