This is an oft used comment by those who are proponents of a resisting Britain, but I am afraid it is somewhat realistic. Dowding himself knew...
ASIDE: The Hitler dance was actually a fabrication, a propaganda spoof which tried to make him look silly. In fact, he simply stamped his foot to...
Actually, that was a five year pact, and it conveniently expired on its own shortly before the Russian attack on Manchuria...
I have posted a similar message before, but it bears repeating. There are a lot of ‘what ifs’ about the second world war, and not a few which...
Allow me to place a few parameters: 1) The question up for debate is who would win a war in Europe. Clearly in the long run the USSR had no real...
This is getting silly. Firstly, the lend-lease trucks. Yes the Allies lend-lease assisted the Soviet war effort. In particular the use of trucks...
Ah Goering, you incompetent, gluttonous, Morphene addict. Goering was the best friend the Allies had, his blatant incompetence and inability to...
Thought the fact that it was a necessary weapon has been dealt with many times in many threads, It bears mentioning that 400,000 is a gross...
The USSR was not really expansionist. It did expand into Poland and Germany, but to be fair they had been invaded from that exact corridor four...
Indeed, there were only 6 actual death camps, while there were over 200 Concentration camps. Dachau for example was a concentration camp. In...
Again this succumbs to the politics of the moment, when the word terrorist has taken on a meaning it did not even have three years ago. As I...
I rest my case.
Ok a few things: 1- Yes the Russians destroyed the vast majority of the Germany armed forces on their own, and did significantly more to win the...
Firstly, this is a dangerous topic, a potential for a lot of political axe-grinding. Atrocity is to a large extent in the eye of the beholder, and...
Slight Aside: I have always found it fascinating, the history of major industries and companies in Germany through the Reich and what happened to...
The last American Bomber shot down (over Europe) in the Second World war was the 'Black Cat', a B-24 shot down over Regensburg, Germany in April 1945.
The Soviets, with their economy FAR stronger than late war Germany, still took until 1947 to produce the Tu-4, the copy of the B-29. Given that,...
I think the point is, however, while Italy's fighters may have been able to compete with British antiquated Gladiators over Malta, Italy's...
