They had a strategy, albeit a risky one. It's a controversial thing, but there are authours who argue that the Germans may have well stalled...
FDR claimed in 1940 that a 50,000 planes/year mark would be achived (it was almost in 1942 with war economy). This is one of the measures...
Wages of Destruction, page 668: By any reasonable estimation, Hitler's declaration of war on theUnited States sealed the fate of Germany. The...
I will not ignorate, however, the evidence provided that Hitler underestimated the Americans, including your quote of a private conversation of...
http://ww2history.com/experts/Adam_Tooze/Germany_s_ability_to_win_the_war LAURENCE REES: It’s right, isn’t it, that by the summer of ’41 the...
Green Slime, the evidence I posted contradicts the idea that the Germans did not take the Americans seriously. The real problem for Germany was...
The Wages of Destruction, page 124: With hindsight it is hard to avoid the conclusion that after the defeat of France Germany would have done...
The territories that Germany had conquered in 1940, though they pro-vided substantial booty and a crucial source of labour did not bearcomparison...
The Wages of destruction, 451: The floodgates in Luftwaffe planning finally opened in the summer of 1941 with the completion of the army's...
The OKW was aware of the positive points of the WM, but also of the negative ones and that the Eastern Front should not be an attrition one. So,...
The Germans were aware of the growing American industry, specially the aero one. For this the idea of invade the USSR was to grab resources to...
Ah, I would like to apologize with the topic's creator, because I did get off topic talking about a ground war. The topic is only about a bombing...
Actually they had independent offensive plans, and according to that link they wanted to "stop" the war by subversion of the Soviet people. As...
But I agree with green slime that Tooze might be analyzing the things with hindsight. However, given the way he wrote, I'm not certain if this is...
Page 450 from the book mentioned:
The Imperial Conference July 2, 1941 At the Imperial Conference held on July 2, 1941, the following policies were decided upon: #Do not intervene...
I'm skeptical about this. Stalin was was a "realpolitician" (i.e. if he didn't expelled the Japanese in 1939, it was because he didn't feel ready...
I'm not with Tooze's The Wages of Destruction book right now, but there's a mention on it about the Germans understanding that even by not...
I didn't accuse you of racism, just mentioned that at the time some people took the superiority over the Japanese armed forces with...
