Not likely i think. Yalta took place in 1943 but possibly not at the time of the first alleged plot, certainly by 1944 Stalin, Roosevelt and...
Maybe you're right, and perhaps Stalin was a much more sensible guy and not the exact same animal as Hitler.
I believe Hartman's claims, only an honorable man would go into Soviet captivity with his men when he could have easily avoided it. Also the...
how about Demyansk pocket. A little known but large and pivotal battle. Also notable in the first combat use by the Germans of the MP 43 big...
A lot of factors for the French debacle of 1940, and with the benefit of hindsight we are now all experts. 1. The Germans came prepared to...
When Hitler started his moves toward war in 1938, i think few English leaders had an illusions about what they were about to face. The Nazi...
In hindsight it's easy to see Citadelle was a big mistake, Field Marshall Model openly said so but went about his end of it anyway. Manstein too...
I already did a search but nothing, so here goes: In many pictures of German soldiers in the war, a lot of people are wearing the Iron Cross. I...
I think population control is usually the last thing on any dictator's mind, the whole collective farm madness was about control and the imposing...
Most people don't even know that Stalin killed almost as many russians as Hitler, and treated his own countrymen with almost the same level of...
1. Stalin's micro-management of the Red Army. His senseless purges had killed off the cream of his own officer corps. All that were left were...
After having studied this conflict for about 40 years now, that explanation strikes me as more truthful then almost all the history books printed...
Good points you made some of them. I forgot typhoon was launchedi n late October. But few seriously thought the loss of Moscow would have caused...
Plane for plane, obviously no contest. The B-29 was the most advanced and capable bomber of the war by far, no other was even close, and probably...
It was Hitler's amateurish handling of Barbarossa that saved Russia more then anything else. During 1941 the Wehrmacht ran wild over Russia and...
Maybe Hitler said it best, one time he said something in the line of history would prove the victors of the war right, whoever they were.
I think the proposed fleet was certainly designed to take on both the French and the royal navy. Surely the Royal naval was the most important...
Compared to today, of course not- Compared to anything previous, allied aircraft probably gave the Panzers more headaches (losses) then any other...
The German air force particularly benefited from actual combat experience in the Spanish war, and it showed later. How the Russians could also get...
Regarding nose up loading, one of the reasons may have been, a crewman could crawl back there and put the fuses in flight. (So take off might be...
