I would agree, with the battle of El Alamein coming at the same time, the Wehrmacht were suddenly- and strategically- on the defensive on their major Eastern Front, but also in the south, in their "soft underbelly"..
Of course, this all happened long before GNU/Linux and Debian... On 26 March 2016 at 14:09, Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 01:57:33PM +0000, Terence wrote: > > If you count Japan's actions in China and Manchuria then the war started > in the > > early 'thirties. > > If we are to be historically accurate, WWII was a continuation of WWI as > far as the West is concerned, and perhaps even of the Russo-Japanese war > for Asia. > > > I don't know where the idea that the USA entered the war to stop the USSR > > invading Western Europe came from. In December 1941 Germany was deep > inside > > Russia, and it took the combined Allied might of Great Britain, the USA > and the > > USSR nearly four years to defeat them. > > Yes. Many argue that the Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of > the war in Europe. > > Haines > >
