-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 07:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | Christopher Judd, Ph. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF7twLS9HxQb37XmcRAolQAKCC2H3k/PqYRIj32helAYg2+3aVLACeISXI VO6L5IpHmvHbzFn5rcIkPZQ= =OcZi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
